This olive green stone has limited flash under the table, while being quite flashy around the girdle. It appears to be eye clean and has a medium dark tone. It weighs 2.49 carats.
This standard round brilliant suffers from the same lack of transparency down the c axis that I have seen in some other richer tourmaline. This effect manifests itself by the stone having muted flash under the table, while brightly flashing around the girdle. The gemstone has a medium dark tone, which makes it a personal stone that needs a good light to be appreciated. It weighs 2.49 carats. and appears to be eye clean.
Bruce
About Bruce Fry
I was born in Summit, NJ in 1947 and graduated from Summit High School in 1966. I graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1970 and after spending another year in graduate school, I left to see the world of Brazil. After spending some more time discovering myself, I ended up working for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for 32 years as an Air Quality Engineer in the Department of Environmental Protection. I retired in 2007 and took up faceting gemstones again after a long hiatus that reached back to my twenties. I had started cutting cabochons when I was 13 and bought my first faceting machine when I was 15, but ran out of money and time until I retired.
My great love in gemology is tourmaline and the collection presented here represents my effort to get as much beauty and variety in the colors of tourmaline as I can. I was particularly lucky in being able to get unheated cuprian tourmaline before copper was discovered in gem grade tourmaline from Mozambique.
This olive green stone has limited flash under the table, while being quite flashy around the girdle. It appears to be eye clean and has a medium dark tone. It weighs 2.49 carats.
