I cut a few new stones this week. Some of them are not for sales, since they were cut on request for some customers, and one I cut as an anniversary gift for my wife. Let’s start with that one. This stone is an African “Ruby” from the Umba area of Tanzania. While the African dealers would call it a ruby, it’s more accurately called a red sapphire, since there a purple tone in it. Anything you call it, it’s a very pretty stone. It finished up at 2.96 ct, and is of course not heated or other treatments. This one is destined to be in a ring.



This next stone is an Aquamarine from Kenya, that again has not been heated and is cut in a Royal Asscher cut.


The last stone here is a Rhodolite Garnet from Tanzania. I bought about 10 of these stones a few years ago, and is is the third to last one I have left. The color was very nice on these, a bit more grape like than most rhodolite. These stones didn’t come too large, and the find was worked out very quickly.

Tags: Sapphire - Aquamarine - Rhodolite