I just took a look around and it appears Benitoite has tripled in price since the last time I looked. Makes me happy I bought that stone I found at the flea market. I know have 5 of them, but the biggest is only .33 carats. Should have bought a carat stone back when they were only $500/carat. Now a clean moderate sized stone (.33 to .5) with not a wonderful color seems to be going for about $3k/carat.
Joined: Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:22 pm Posts: 21602 Location: San Francisco
Yep, it is my understanding that benitoite was mined out some years ago. I have a wee set of .10ct stones graduating in color from medium blue to colorless.
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