A beautiful Bi-color ( light Smokey to dark Smokey) Topaz ,98% meet point cut This is a triple AAA these do not show up often, from Minas Gerias Brazil, but not belly cut, 25.8mm.x14mm. and 20.55 cts. this is a big stone. I stumbled on to a large parcel of these stones about 6 years ago at a small hotsell rock club show in Melbourne Fl. And I mean big, 6, 5gal buckets big to be exact, 90% of them were huge stones 30 and 40 +++ cts. much larger than I normally use, but they intrigued me a lot, a price was agreed upon , and I spent the next 3+ hours with my head in 5 gal. buckets , pulling 2500 cts. of the better cut undamaged stones, most(because of how they were being transported) had nicks and dings in them , also finding a few faceted phantoms in this load. I then had the vendor wrap each one separately, A task I know he did not enjoy. I ran onto him a month later at an other show, he had sold the whole parcel and was not expecting to get any more as their wasn't any more coming out of the mine that was of a facet grade. The mine produced about 3 000 kilos of this material, of which, only about 600 was faceable, the remainder was not much better than road fill he also said that this material was found once before about 20 or 25 years back. and chances were slim of any more any time soon. I am asking $6.00 per. caret for the stones that I have left in my inventory, as I am not using them in my creations any more.
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Product code: Rare Bi-Color Smokey Topaz,cushion hotsell cut oval large faceted gemstone