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If you are buying a Christmas or new year gift, have you thought about Tanzanite?

 

Tanzanite

Tanzanite  is  truly  spectacular!  This  precious gemstone is only found in one location in the world: Tanzania, Africa. Claimed to be a 1000 times rarer than Diamonds, Tanzanite is the  blue variety of Zoisite.

Even  though  Zoisite  occurs  widely,  the geological conditions that are required to enable  the gem to turn into its trademark blue is so rare that it has been described as ‘more astounding than the stone itself’.

Tanzanite  is  extremely  popular  due  to  its  trichroic nature, which means that three different colours can be seen when looking at the gem from different angles. In Tanzanite’s case these  colours are: blue, pinkish violet and yellow. 

As with many gemstones, the darker, more vivid  its colour the more valuable it is; and dark blue  Tanzanite is currently amongst the most desired,  and therefore most expensive, gemstones in the  world.  So  enchanted  is  anyone  who  sees  this  gemstone that today it is often talked about with  the same reverence as Diamonds.

On discovering this beautiful gem in 1967, word  of the unearthing reached the celebrated New  York Jewellers, Tiffany’s. At that time Henry B  Platt (the great grandson of Louis C Tiffany) was  working with Tiffany’s president, Walter Hoving.  He was completely awestruck by the beauty of    the  gemstone,  a  gem  which    he  later  named  Tanzanite,  after  the  country  where  it  was  discovered,  and  this  amazing  gemstone  was  launched at Tiffany’s in 1969. 

Hailed the “gemstone of the 20th century”, it has  been recommended to wear Tanzanite as an anti-depressant,  due  to  the  nurturing,  emotionally  supportive  and  cheering  energies  it  is  said  to  bestow.  The huge demand for this gemstone led to the  Gemological Institution of America adding the  gem to the official birthstone list in 2002, for the month of December.