I just bought my first faceting machine and I'm getting some rough to start practicing on, I wanted something that I liked but was still affordable and I came across parcels of chrysoberyl that were multi-colored (mostly golden but green, orange/brown, blue and red) anyway I can only find a few pictures of red or blue colored chrysoberyl that isn't an alexandrite. I was wondering what they look like when cut? Any pictures would be great, but if anyone has actual experience with them I would like to know how they turned out. Thanks!
Chrysoberyl doesn't come in a nonchanging blue or red. Chrysoberyl rough is often found in mixed gem gravels, so depending who you buy from it is easy for other stones to get mixed in (or rather to not get sorted out).
Well I got the stones, sat down to try and identify some of them and lol that turned out to be a huge waste of time. I couldn't get a good reading off anything from the refractometer. I guess I will have to facet them first and then try again.
Stephen bought a bunch of gravel like that and ran through it on the way home (in the back seat) with our Raman. That is when he found the odd spinel he reported a while back.
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