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Brilliant_Rock
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- Jun 27, 2012
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I saw 5 russian demantoid from 2-4ct, the color was unreal! I have never seen that color on any website...It was intense green tsavorite color! With great sparkle and eye clean clarity. It was carried by B & B gem. Man it was worth the 3 hrs drive just for them!
I asked the lady at the booth for price, and she said the lowest price is a cushion 2ct one, $7800 per carat.
Also saw a lot of merelani mint garnets.Took my breath away!Not a single one of them has a yellowish tone, all bluish and shiny and precision cut....When I saw it, I know why it is so loved by the market. I asked price on a 3 carat cushion mint garnets, it was $4500....Again, so sad....
I end up bought very little and inexpensive stones
Here are they: A baby blue tuormaline, and a very saturated rubelite tourmaline. Both around 1 carat. Little but nice. The blue one was sold to me as paraiba, but I figured it is just cuprian. Worth the $$ anyway
I asked the lady at the booth for price, and she said the lowest price is a cushion 2ct one, $7800 per carat.
Also saw a lot of merelani mint garnets.Took my breath away!Not a single one of them has a yellowish tone, all bluish and shiny and precision cut....When I saw it, I know why it is so loved by the market. I asked price on a 3 carat cushion mint garnets, it was $4500....Again, so sad....
I end up bought very little and inexpensive stones
Here are they: A baby blue tuormaline, and a very saturated rubelite tourmaline. Both around 1 carat. Little but nice. The blue one was sold to me as paraiba, but I figured it is just cuprian. Worth the $$ anyway