NEW FIND OF DIOPTASE FROM KAOKOVELD
with gemmy and translucent crystals of unusual habit
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Dioptase gems in sizes above 1 carat are very hard to obtain. Although not totally clean, this is overall mostly transparent, and has an even and saturated color. A beautiful rare gem! A well-cut , rare gem - notable in size - cut by Spectrum Award winner Mark Kaufman.
ex. Charlie Key
A 1.6-cm-long dioptase, fairly translucent , is perched on a reticulated cerussite here! UNIQUE combination, and the only one like it I have seen amidst a small trickle of specimens from this new mine in the Kaokoveld plateau. Although not quite pristine on very close examination, it looks pristine from arms length, and anyways it is the contrast of color and geometry that so mesmerizes, here. It is , amongst so many Kaokoveld dioptase that hav eno associations at all with them, really surprisign to me to see this one.
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