- 100% Authentic
- Origin: Cambodia, from Ratanakiri
- Color: Blue, Superb!
- Weight: 16.12 Ct
- Aveage: 2,34-3,83ct
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- Size: 9,6*7,7*5,3 mm
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A unique mineral is 100% Authentic Blue Zircon!
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Zircon comes in many colors such as yellow, orange, red, and blue.
Many people have heard of zircon but never seen it. This is mostly because of colorless zircon’s wide use as a diamond simulant in the early 1900s. It was long ago replaced in that role by more convincing look-alikes, but its name still means “imitation” to many people. That’s unfortunate because zircon is a beautiful colored stone with its own fair share of folklore and charm.
In the Middle Ages, this gem was thought to induce sound sleep, drive away evil spirits, and promote riches, honor, and wisdom.
Many scholars think the stone’s name comes from the Arabic word zarkun, meaning “cinnabar” or “vermilion.” Others believe the source is the Persian word zargun, or “gold colored.” Considering zircon’s color range, either derivation seems possible.
Blue zircon was a particular favorite in Victorian times, when fine gems were often featured in English estate jewelry dating from the 1880s. Gemologist George Kunz—Tiffany’s famed gem buyer—was a notable zircon advocate. He once proposed the name “starlite” to promote the gem’s fiery nature. The name never caught on.
Zircon ( /ˈzɜːrkɒn/ or /ˈzɜːrkən/) is a mineral belonging to the group of nesosilicates. Its chemical name is zirconium silicate, and its corresponding chemical formula is ZrSiO4.
A common empirical formula showing some of the range of substitution in zircon is (Zr1–y, REEy)(SiO4)1–x(OH)4x–y. Zircon forms in silicate melts with large proportions of high field strength incompatible elements.
For example, hafnium is almost always present in quantities ranging from 1 to 4%. The crystal structure of zircon is tetragonal crystal system.
The natural colour of zircon varies between colourless, yellow-golden, red, brown, blue and green.
Colourless specimens that show gem quality are a popular substitute for diamond and are also known as "Matura diamond".
The name derives from the Persian zargun, meaning "gold-hued".
This word is corrupted into "jargoon", a term applied to light-colored zircons.
The English word "zircon" is derived from Zirkon, which is the German adaptation of this word. Yellow, orange and red zircon is also known as "hyacinth",[ from the flower hyacinthus, whose name is of Ancient Greek origin.
Zircon is ubiquitous in the crust of Earth. It occurs as a common accessory mineral in igneous rocks (as primary crystallization products), in metamorphic rocks and as detrital grains in sedimentary rocks.
Large zircon crystals are rare. Their average size in granite rocks is about 0.1–0.3 mm, but they can also grow to sizes of several centimeters, especially in mafic pegmatites and carbonatites.
Zircon is also very resistant to heat and corrosion.
Because of their uranium and thorium content, some zircons undergo metamictization.
Connected to internal radiation damage, these processes partially disrupt the crystal structure and partly explain the highly variable properties of zircon. As zircon becomes more and more modified by internal radiation damage, the density decreases, the crystal structure is compromised, and the color changes.
Zircon occurs in many colors, including reddish brown, yellow, green, blue, gray and colorless. The color of zircons can sometimes be changed by heat treatment.
Common brown zircons can be transformed into colorless and blue zircons by heating to 800 to 1000 °C.
In geological settings, the development of pink, red, and purple zircon occurs after hundreds of millions of years, if the crystal has sufficient trace elements to produce color centers.
Color in this red or pink series is annealed in geological conditions above temperatures of around 400 °C.
Colorless zircon is known for its brilliance and flashes of multicolored light, called fire. These zircon properties are close enough to the properties of diamond to account for centuries of confusion between the two gems.
Zircon occurs in an array of colors. Its varied palette of yellow, green, red, reddish brown, and blue hues makes it a favorite among collectors as well as informed consumers.
Colorless zircon is well known for its brilliance and flashes of multicolored light, called fire. These two zircon properties are close enough to the properties of diamond to account for centuries of confusion between the two gems.
Zircon occurs in an array of colors. Its wide and varied palette of yellow, green, red, reddish brown, and blue hues makes it a favorite among collectors as well as informed consumers.
Zircon crystals grow in many different types of rock and possess a range of optical and physical properties.
Some zircons—usually green ones—display much lower values for these properties than others. Scientists have determined that the crystal structures of these gems were almost completely broken down by radioactive elements—often present in zircon as impurities—that damaged the gems’ crystal structure over long periods of geological time.
Some gemologists classify zircons into three types—high, intermediate, and low. A zircon’s classification depends on its properties, which are directly related to the amount of radiation-induced damage done to its crystal structure.
High or normal zircons have full crystal structures, with little or no damage from radioactive elements. As a result, they have the normal physical and optical properties associated with the mineral.
In intermediate or medium zircons, radioactive elements have caused some structural damage. They have physical and optical properties that are between high and low types.
Extensive crystal-structure damage from radioactive elements results in low zircons with much lower optical and physical properties. In extreme cases, they are practically amorphous, which means they lack an orderly crystal structure.
Virtually all the zircons used in jewelry are of the high type. Interestingly, radiation-induced crystal-structure breakdown can be reversed somewhat by heating zircon to high temperatures. High-temperature heat treatment repairs the stone’s damaged crystal structure.
This stone is not as famous as Tanzanite, Tourmaline, Moonstone and others.
Some jewelers don’t even know about it but others who do know, know the real beauty of this stone.
It is a favorite stone of collectors and they love the blue hue of this stone.
More than 80% of Zircons which have been sold, are blue and the remaining 20% come in all colors.
According to gemologist and big gemstones selling companies, this stone is going to be famous in upcoming years.
In the middle ages, Zircon was used for good sleep, prosperity and positivity. If you would like to know how the name was discovered, Zircon comes from ‘zargun’ (a Persian word), which means ‘gold-colored’ but it comes in many colors.
Sometimes Precious and Semi-Precious Gemstone buyers mistake Zircon and Cubic Zirconia as the same because of the similar names and the fact is that Cubic Zirconia is lab-grown imitation of different stones.
Properties, Quality and Color of Blue Zircon Gemstones -There are relatively few natural gemstones which come in blue color with good hardness and blue color brilliance.
Sapphire, Tanzanite (the violet Blue), Aquamarine (Light Blue), and Blue Tourmaline are some stones which come in a blue color shade. Irradiated blue gemstones like Blue Topaz (Swiss and London) is also famous for its blue color, BUT without any doubt the most brilliant blue gemstone is Natural Blue Zircon.
This stone comes with more refractive index than Sapphire, Tanzanite and other blue stones. It is found in a big range of colors, including rose, white, orange, blue etc.
Most of the Blue Zircons are heat treated and clear with no inclusions but a few 100% Natural Zircons come with a smoky and cloudy appearance.
This smokiness made this gemstone famous in the times of the Victorians.
Blue Zircon is heated and that is acceptable in the market and there is no need of any disclosure because everyone knows it.
The hardness of this stone is 7-7.5 on Mohs scale which attracts jewelers to make rings, pendants and bracelets using this stone.
It can split white light into spectral (rainbow) colors and that unique property makes this stone more interesting.
Basically it is produced by the heat treatment of Natural Brown Zircon but all Brown Zircon stones which are heated do not turn Blue, only those which have a “congenial” physical structure change into blue, this is the reason this stone is rare.
This is high quality hand - polished. This spectrolite gemstone also could be a central stone in a powerfull wire wrapped, silver, gold, leather or beading jewelry and amulet.
Edges under the polished, neat chamfer on the underside, back side glossy.
Cabochons do it myself, giving everyone special attention! Also I can make the necessary shapes, sizes, sets. All the cabochons do without a backing.
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General experience in stone processing 19 years.
From the age of 7, his father taught the basics, and at the age of 10 he carved a stone carving, sharpened balls, complex table sets and boxes.
Of these, the professional experience of cutting precious and colored stones is 12 years.
Achieved the highest quality polishing, perfect symmetry and high precision in the manual production of cabochons with different and complex composite minerals, where the difference in hardness varies from 2 to 9 on the Mohs scale.
I make all the tools myself, and find minerals every year, in the summer season, in the mountains of the Kola Peninsula and North Karelia.
Participated in about 100 mineralogical and jewelry exhibitions in Russia, which are international.
And also participation in 2 mineralogical exhibitions in Finland and Sweden.
Participation in the festivals of art spaces such as Heat of the North, Solar Sister, Chill Out Planet with the creation of "Fantastic Stones" space on them.
Took part in dozens of handmade fairs.
Masters from more than 25 countries use cabochons made by me, in creating high-complexity ornaments of such materials and techniques as beadwork, wire ornaments, sutras, macrame, jewelry made of genuine leather, jewelry art.
Hundreds of craftsmen want to cut stones preferably from me, knowing that I can make the highest quality on their sketches to within a fraction of a millimeter.
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