Metal: .925 Sterling Silver
Gem: 1 ct. Cats Eye Vanadium Kornerupine
Weight: 1/2 troy oz.
Size: 9.25
Gem Origin: Umba Valley, Tanzania
No treatments
Made in Vermont by: Scott Maier
Comments:
Kornerupine is one of the world's rarest gemstones -- Harder to find than any of the traditional, well known gems.
With a hardness of about 7, very similar to tourmaline, it can be worn in rings, with some care.
Cat's eye kornerupine is a real treat. Besides being an alluring color for a gem - somewhere in the mint / seafoam zone, it can sometimes form with one, or several rays! The rays are made up of microscopic inclusions that team up to form a parallel silk, which catches the light, and shoots it back to us as a bright ray!
This one has one ray, looking at it head on, or a few rays looking at it from the side. Either way, this gem has a real personality - appearing as a solid green color with no ray in low light conditions, it will all of a sudden BURST with glow, and exhibit a moving ray once you get near a bright light source (ideally the sun)
This piece has a great heft for the hand it'll be on. A half ounce of silver is no joke! It's solidly cast as one piece, no hollow or scooped out areas.
The shape is a square cushion shape, and each corner is tapered inwards to make it 'cornerless'.