The rough for this very very pale blue standard round brilliant came from Afghanistan. It originally was part of bicolors that broke apart. I have cut many included light pink rounds from the pink half of the broken bicolors, but relatively few of the blue ends. I am pushed to call them blue not colorless and the lighting makes the difference as usual. Still the droplets of color accept him as a bright, eye clean, addition. He weighs 1.08 carats. ( He leads a second life as a founder of the IceT group of nearly colorless tourmaline)
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.
