From being just another type of stone in the deep recesses of the earth in the mysterious continent of Africa is not only a precious stone, that the imagination of the designer has entered into trapped, artists, businessmen and the public in the same way, knows the story beautiful tanzanite gem in an interesting, keep track of.
Tanzanite is an extraordinary gem. It occurs all over the world in one place. Its light blue, with a fine hint of purple, surrounded is a wonderful color. Tanzaniteis a blue variety of Zoisite gemstone. It is composed of aluminum and calcium silicate is not particularly difficult, with a value of 6.5 to 7 on the Mohs scale. For this reason, should be worn carefully and never placed in an ultrasonic bath for cleaning or contact with acids. Tanzanite is the blue variety / purple zoisite mineral Meralani hills in northern Tanzania, discovered in 1967 near the town of Arusha. However, most tanzanite is subjected to artificialHeat treatment to improve its color, and this significantly reduces its trichroism.
In terms of time is very short as the history of other important tanzanite gemstones such as diamonds, etc. But even during that short period of time, tanzanite has been its role in various heights and depths that have left a mark in history in comparison . Tanzanite history can be made prior to 1960, when it was first discovered. The story goes that some local Maasai pastoralists have been in Tanzania,Mount Kilimanjaro has seen over the beautiful stone. Fascinated by the beautiful blue color of the stone, but not his identity, took the pastor of a tailor in Goa, Manuel De Souza, who also happens to be an avid student of gold diggers and precious stones. Now De Souza could set the stone in all categories known at the time. Confused, I took another professional Gemologist Nairobi - John Saul, who was known for his keen interest in Aquamarine.
It 'wasby John Saul finally decided that the stone hymen Saul, his father, who comes to cut some of the samples, like a diamond, so that now he has shown many faces, and then divided into beautiful blue color. The presentation of the stone was Henry Platt, director of Tiffany & Co., a stone is born again. Henry Platt loved the stone and decided to baptize in recognition of its tanzanite places. The beauty of precious stones and some smart marketing has led to agradual increase of its popularity and acceptance of the masses.
Since then, jewelry tanzanite has many ups and downs with changes in supply, demand and therefore prices of the various causes open new mines have seen some at once overwhelmed and close some mines tragic loss of life of many miners' housing. Probably the most famous in history tanzanite is the moment when, in 2001, shortly after the 9-11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, an Articlehas been published that related to the illegal sale of smuggled tanzanite financing of terrorism in the free market of Dubai and other places. Sales of the stone has been dropped for a while 'to extremely low levels during this period, but recovery, if no real evidence has been found to the complaint. But then, the article also made sure that Tanzanite still got more popularity and wide acceptance of interest and curiosity.
Some years a company known as Tanzanite One Ltd. got the licenses for large partstanzanite mines, and with some intelligent control of supply and demand and a lot of marketing, the stone has never looked back. Even today, the prices of tanzanite are continuously increasing, with no signs of declining popularity and more people are attracted from around the fascinating world of the beautiful purple-blue of this young gemstone.
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