Can it be true paraiba?

[oksana]

Good afternoon,
Please ,can you comment on these pictures of Paraiba .It is 100 ct.Seller advertised it as a ,,natural Paraiba Tourmaline,, which I find very difficult to believe.Price for this ring is ridiculously small.
I will appreciate your opinion.

 

[Nosean]

Glass, fluorite....

 

[Bron357]

Hardly, I can see a glass bubble near the bottom prong.
There’s a 62 carat pariba for sale on eBay and it’s $4 million dollars!
Coloured glass crystal, worth 50 cents (probably from India or China) and probably not even real silver.

 

[oksana]

Thank you

 

[Nosean]

No doubling of the pavillion facets - such a large tourmaline and you would see it clearly.

 

[T L]

They make paraiba colored topaz too now, and coated Quartz.

 

[Bron357]

That said, even as costume jewelry it’s pretty and if you love it and it’s cheap, why not.

 

[oksana]

No ,it is a very expensive for costume jewelry,but it is a very cheap for paraiba.I will stay away

 

[LilAlex]

Even the setting has no "depth" -- just thin base metal like it has been stamped and wrapped and not even cast (e.g., fourth photo). You just wouldn't do that with a $10K stone -- let alone a million-dolllar one.

 

[arglthesheep]

COuld also be Apatite, which comes also in these kind of colors...
Which is far cheaper, but also not that often in this size.
So I would tend to glass or fluorite...

 

[T L]

COuld also be Apatite, which comes also in these kind of colors...
Which is far cheaper, but also not that often in this size.
So I would tend to glass or fluorite...

Highly unlikely to be apatite, but if it were, it would be an amazing specimen and valuable.

Coated quartz, or coated fluorite, or irradiated/coated topaz, most likely.

 

[Arcadian]

I've seen some pretty massive windex blue apatite (talking 20+carat range) the price actually shocked me

To me, it looks like glass But I'm terrible at IDing a stone based on a picture

 

[oksana]

Thank you very much for your opinion.I am totally agree with you.I am far from gems business but even I understood (with my minimal knowledge about gems) it cannot be true. I saw that stone on russian website like Etsy.From my point of view this seller is absolutely disgusting person and I am thinking about where can I report her.
Unfortunately ,somebody (very inexperienced and naive person )bought it.She/he paid approximately 2000 dollars for that that glass.(for ordinary russian person it is a lots of money).
Thank you very much again .

 

[Barrett]

That is for sure a paraiba tourmaline...WOW! You got a cool $30 million in your hand there.

 

[Frost]

That is for sure a paraiba tourmaline...WOW! You got a cool $30 million in your hand there.

Was just about to say it - it'd make a lottery win look tame by comparison.