yellow to peach color change: what was it?

[RetroTreeGal]

Hi all,
I did an internet search and a forum search on this and came up short. I was in a jewelry store in Mexico last week, and there was a collection of stones that were a cold yellow color in the shop lighting, but when the salesman threw an incandescent light on them, they turned a peachy orange. Neither color, to my eyes, were particularly attractive. He said they were color-change morganite, but I've never heard of a morganite changing color. I of course am under no illusion that these weren't lab made stones, like everything in the store, but I was wondering if anyone had any idea what gem structure (beryl, etc) these were supposed to be. Or were they just franken-rocks with a misleading name?

 

[chrono]

There is yellow beryl (morganite belongs to the beryl family) but I haven't heard of any changing to peach under incandescent light.

 

[Lady_Disdain]

Was it extreme? Because most stones do shift colours under different lights. Some shifts are cool, others (like the infamous "browning out" of pink stones) are not.

 

[liao]

There are a lot of stone that can shift like that. My guess, it is zultanite

 

[Marlow]

Zultanite is ugly graygreen to ugly grayishbrownish something like pink!

 

[RetroTreeGal]

Oh yes, it was quite extreme. Upon looking at zultanite images online, it's possible that they were lab grown or simulant versions of this. The colors of the stone in the shop were much a cleaner, purer, candy-colored (read: artificial) version than most I'm seeing online, which would be expected for a lab grown stone. Thanks for your help!

 

[RetroTreeGal]

Here is a pretty close proximity to what I saw. They're calling it alexite- a color change simulant.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Genuine-Col...2712121?pt=Gemstone_Rings&hash=item19d8df8eb9

Well in summary I wasn't impressed with what I saw in the store, but from this thread I learned about another color-change gemstone, zultanite. Thanks again, all!

 

[Clown-n-round]

Hi all,
I did an internet search and a forum search on this and came up short. I was in a jewelry store in Mexico last week, and there was a collection of stones that were a cold yellow color in the shop lighting, but when the salesman threw an incandescent light on them, they turned a peachy orange. Neither color, to my eyes, were particularly attractive. He said they were color-change morganite, but I've never heard of a morganite changing color. I of course am under no illusion that these weren't lab made stones, like everything in the store, but I was wondering if anyone had any idea what gem structure (beryl, etc) these were supposed to be. Or were they just franken-rocks with a misleading name?

 

[Clown-n-round]

Hi all,
I did an internet search and a forum search on this and came up short. I was in a jewelry store in Mexico last week, and there was a collection of stones that were a cold yellow color in the shop lighting, but when the salesman threw an incandescent light on them, they turned a peachy orange. Neither color, to my eyes, were particularly attractive. He said they were color-change morganite, but I've never heard of a morganite changing color. I of course am under no illusion that these weren't lab made stones, like everything in the store, but I was wondering if anyone had any idea what gem structure (beryl, etc) these were supposed to be. Or were they just franken-rocks with a misleading name?

 

[Clown-n-round]

Was that in Cozumel? I bought a ring at a port in Cozumel. They told me that it was a Morganite ring. It change a from a pinkish color to a yellow under more natural lights. I have been trying to find out what it really is. I have a video of the stone changing in my Facebook
2018. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10216865853904250&id=1401513688