Gem: Chrome Kornerupine
Weight: 0.08 ct., and 0.26 ct.
Dimensions: 2.7 mm, and 4 mm
Clarity: VVS+
Origin: Umba Valley, tanzania
Treatments: None, natural
Comments:
Incredibly rare, and unbelievably beautiful - This is how I think of chrome kornerupine. When it is faceted with the purple axis facing out the table, you can get separate colors at the same time, and when the purple axis is across the gem sideways, it instead influences the total color of the gem into a really rich, open teal green color. This set represents one of each!
In this set, there is one smaller chrome kornerupine, with it's purple foot forward - in this case, because the gem is rather small, it can appear light purple or gray. There is also a larger gem showing the rich open teal color. Both round gems are clean as can be.