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		Tunduru Garnet -  Pastel-Pyrope   Super brilliant Pastel-Pyrope from Tunduru with perfect clarity. There is some colour shifting with the better and more intense colour - as typical - in incandescent light. Faceted in the "8er Brillant" with its flat table. RI: 1.759, N52 picks up. 0.92 cts., 5.6 x 4.0 mm available

		Tunduru Garnet - Spessartine   Easy to identify exactly: the colour speaks for itself while the RI is to high for the standard refractometer, the N52 picks it easily up or better it jumps to the magnet. There are a lot of internals but irl not as strong as the pic shows. 0.44 cts., 6.3 x 5.8 3.0 mm available

		Tunduru Garnet - Pyro-Spessartine   Another strong sparkler with perfect cöarity and a mixed colour that contains orange, brown, some red and gold. As the most Tunduru Garnets with some colour shifting and a bit more red in incandescent light. Pipistrelli with split main facets. RI: 1.766, N52: picks up. 0.71 cts., 5.7 x 3.9 mm available

		Mocambique Rose Quartz   The umbrella-design in a square shape. This is fun to cut and the result is just amazing. Here done in a mocambique Rose Quartz with stronge colour and also some more silk. 5.83 cts., 10.8 x 9.8 mm available

		Madagascan Girasol Quartz   Madagascan Girasol Quartz is a heated Quartz (not to confuse with real Girasol that is a kind of Opal) with a grade of silkyness and are usually colourless. I like this stuff with these "Phase" design here with eleven facets at the pavillion, girdle small Phase and big table. This optical effect is simple and works great with an odd number of facets so I normally 13 or like here 11 pavillion facets. 3.95 cts., 11.2 x 6.9 mm available

		Tanzanian Umbalite   Years ago when the Umbalites were easily available on the market  I orderred a bigger parcel at new era gems and since then  I'm lucky work with magenta-reddish Garnets from time to time. This had some troubles at the surface so it came a bit smaller. Now it is eyeclean with great "Umba-colour". 1.06 cts., 5.9 x 4.5 mm available

		Madagascan Dravite   The Dravite shows it different colours (orange, brown and a little golden hues) in the Mini Opposed Bar design. Eyeclean and vivid. 2.05 cts., 8.8 5.7 x 5.2 mm available

		Madagascan Hessonite   Intense orange glowing Hessonite from Madagascar. The pavilion is a portuguese-type and reflects the light very well. In combination with a SRB-crown this is a modern and classical gem at the same time.Due to its multi-crystal structure it is silky and has some internals. 2.82 cts., 8.4 x 5.9 mm available

		Amethyst   Medium saturated Amethyst from Brejinho das Ametistas, Caetité, Bahia, Região Nordeste, Brasil. This locaity is known for its little crstal with lighter stones. Many have a very characteristic line of healed cracks going right through the middle, here even visible at around 4 o'clock. 2.71 cts., 8.6 x 7.5 mm available

		Brazil Citrine Typical golden Citrine from Brazil, totally clean & brilliant. irl it show more gold. 1.10 cts., 7.2 x 4.9 mm available

		Marolambo Rhodolite   This is a pure red Rhodolite from Madagascars Marolambo. The pavilion has some more facets and so the pattern is more filigran. Very good clarity for a Marolambo with only very decent silky particles. 3.12 cts., 8.4 x 5.9 mm available

		Brazil Smoky Quartz   A big Smoky Quartz in the squared Umbrella design. Some minor internals a visible for good eyes or with magnification. The livelyness of the umbrella theme works great. The light to medium rough is from Brazil. 30.63 cts., 18.9 x 17.2 mm available

		Pastel Pyrope   A light type of Pastel Pyrope from Ampanihy. The nearly round trillion also works fine for these rare light Pyropes. Due to two Biotite platelets the clarity is only "vs" and shows some watermark type Rutiles. But all these internals are really tiny and eye invisible. The brilliance is great and the colours shift a little from very pastel pink to a bit more saturated in incandescent light. 1.25 cts., 6.3 x 4.9 mm available

		Tanzanian Rhodolite   The originally Pipistrelli design in dark red tanzanian Rhodolite with perfect clarity. Nice red flashes from deep inside. 3.13 cts., 9.0 x 6.0 mm available

		Bekily CC-Garnet   Colour-change Garnet from Bekily in Madagaskar. Lots of internals with a nice incandescent colour and a little of the Usambara-effect (means the bigger the gem is the more it is generally reddish, the smaller gems have the best cc.) 1.85 cts., 7.5 x 5.0 mm available

		Tanzanian Rhodolite   Pure dark red tanzanian Rhodolite. Another "Mini Opposed Bar" cut with its pixel reflections. Eyeclean clarity. 1.91 cts., 9.3 4.3 x 4.7 mm available

		Unbelievable Tanzanite   WOW! Ihave never seen a Tanzanite like this. 10+ cts. flawless, untreated and so many colours. I can see purple, gold, green, blue sometimes a little pink and from each view the colour changes and shift from daylight to incandescent light. If all this wouldn´t be enough there is a lot of dispersive potential in this super rare gem. 10.39 cts., 13.0 x 10.5 mm available

		Antsirabe Tourmaline   Copper-coloured Tourmaline from Antsirabe in Central Madagascar. It was only a small pocket in pegmatite that brought these unusual Tourmalines. Some internal cracks otherwise clean. 2.61 cts., 7.5 x 7.0 mm available

		Surselva Smoky Quartz   This is the brandnew "Palac Struga" design my 5th and (surely last) hemispherical design from this year. It is very much of the idea I always had in mind and am happy with it. The Smoky Quartz is from the Surselva region in Central Switzerland and was found from Matthias Benz a Strahler also from my hometown Munich. Look at his website: world-of-crystals.com This beauty is near flawless, super brilliant and has a very light brownish hue. 12.36 cts., 13.3 x 12.8 mm available

		Tanzanian Rhodolite   The 3rd hemisperical design from last week! A near flawless dark-red Rhodolite from Tanzania with 130 facets and a 13fold base. It took me two days to facet and polish all these tiny facets. But the result says clearly it was worth doing so! 7.49 cts., 10.0 x 10.2 mm available

		Tanzanian Almandite   Almandite Garnet from Tanzania in my baguette-design for small gems with too much facets. RI:1.778, the N52 picks it easily up. 0.95 cts., 6.2 x 4.4 x 3.8 mm available

		Kerman Demantoid   From our persian friend we received a big parcel of mine run Demantoids. No big pieces and only a small part is suitable for faceting but some beauties will come out. This one was a yellowish Andradite/Topazolite with a green Demantoid-core. Finally near all of the yellow were cut out so gem is over 80% Demantoid and the left over is Topazolite. Not a bad combination with great clarity (just minor internals and really tiny crackings). The result will force me to cut more of these! 0.32 cts., 4.0 x 3.0 mm available

		Tanzanian Dravite   I like the different colours in these Dravite-Tourmalines: gold, bronze, some greenish-yellow. The style is the normal Pippistrelli but with splt main facets. Some cracks are easily visible, otherwise clean. 2.11 cts., 9.1 x 5.9 mm available

		Brazil Amethyst   The Trinity was one of my first own designs years ago and I still like it. It's a fun to cut it and the result is always amazing. This is a "Rose de France" Amethyst from somewhere in Brazil, flawless clarity and its light colour presents the triple starburst appearance very well. 4.91 cts., 11.2 x 9.3 mm available

		Darkest Bllue Spinel   Extremely dark Spinel from Sri Lanka. The colour is a greenish greyish blue with some red flashes at the rims of reflections. 2.23 cts. 8.9 x 7.0 x 5.9  mm available

		Diego Yellow Sapphire   In northern Madagascar is a locality for basaltic Sapphires called "Diego". Most of the Sapphires from Diego are blue but also some yellow examples are known. This is one of these. The clarity is not perfect, definitely not, there are some veils running through the gem, easy visible for the naked eye. But think about 4.23 cts. and the whopping size. 4.23 cts. 9.5 x 6.8 mm available

		Lemon Citrin   Light yellow silky Lemon-Citrin (of course heated!) in my round Trinity design. Beside the silk it's a clean gem. 2.63 cts., 9.1 x 7.6 mm available

		Madagascan Carnelion   Strong silk and orange solour in this Carnelion from Madagascar. As a member of the CHalcedony-family (micro-crystalline Quartzes) it is a near relative of the Chrysoprases or other Agates. 2.82 cts. 9.4 x 7.2 mm available

		Tanzanian Pastel-Pyrope   This little Garnet was a test cut for a checkerboard-type pixel-cut. It works very well and so you will see more of these in future. This small beauty is perfectly clean and was found Tanzania. 0.40 cts. 4.9 x 3.3 x 3.3 mm available

		Sambian Citrine   Another Liquid FLower from Sambia with some more colour saturation and perfect LF-pattern. 4.11X cts. 11.4 x 6.8 mm available

		Tanzanian Rhodolite   Dark red Garnet from Tanzania faceted in my "Tudor's Kaleidoskop" design. There are lots of Rutile-needles visible under magnification or strong light. With a RI of 1.767 it stands close to the border from Pyrope to Almandite. 2.03 cts. 7.5 x 5.5 mm available

		Simbabwe Chrome-Chalcedony   One of the more rar and usually not faceted Chalcedonies is this chrome-coloured example from Simbabwe. Beautiful green colour, strongest silk and some small white particles aretypical for this variety. 3.22 cts. 9.9 x 7.6 mm available

		Ampanihy Pastel-Pyrope   This square shaped Pastel-Pyrope from Ampanihy represents one of the bigger pieces of this rare variety. Faceted into my "Flandriant" design, beside some very thin Rurile-needles clean and full of sparkles. 1.47 cts. 6.2 x 4.7 mm available

		Madagascan Rose Quartz   Soft-pink Rose-Quartz from Madagascar. Faceted in a longer version of my "Lighthouse of Porporela" design. 7.42 cts.  15.3 x 11.7 x 8.4mm available

		Madagascan Carnelion   Light-orange madagascan Carnelion with strong silk. The design is M. Voltolinis cushion design with an extra phase around the table. 3.22 cts. 9.8 x 7.5 mm available

		Madagascan Girasol-Quartz   Madagascan Girasol-Quartz with glowing silk and warm reflections. This material is generally heated and please don't confuse it with Girasol, which is an Opal. 2.37 cts. 8.8 x 6.8 mm available

		Bolivian Citrine   This Liquid Flower was part of an Ametrine rough but the Amethyst part  was so under represented that no violet colour shows up, So it is just a Citrine with fine LF-pattern. 6.54 cts. 12.7 x 8.6 mm available

		Tanga Rhodolite   The final gem of this newsletter is a very fine Rhodolite from Tanga in Tanzania. With an RI of 1.764 this is the typical "Rhodolite" a mixed Garnet with two thirds Almandite and one third Pyrope. Very, very clean and the coloured of the best red wines from Bordeaux. 5.11 cts. 11.8 x 9.0 x 7.3 mm available

		Sambian Smoky Citrine   The next round Triity. Very brilliant smoky yellow colour in this untreaed african gem, eyeclean. 5.36 cts., 11.7 x 9.6 mm available

		Mocambique Almandite   Dark red Almandite Garnet from Mocambique. Has a bit of the grape mocambique colour but only in daylight and is more reddish in incandescent light, eyeclean. 1.13 cts., 7.2 x 4.3 x 3.4 mm available

		Val Val Smoky Quartz   This is a new hemispherical design faceted on a perfect piece of Smoky Quartz from Val Val in Switzerland. A total of 99 facets stands for lots of sparkles to all directions. It belongs with its 11-sided shape to my prim number series, a kind of geometric with a completely different way of reflective properties. 14.08 cts., 14.5 x 13.7 mm available

		Rescued Citrine   Definitely my most copied design, (thanks to A.K. the newest member of plagiators). Anyway this is the original with the best angles for the triple reflection of the pavilion. Eyeclean and fine golden colour. This gem is also a part of the Gem Rescue Project. 5.10 cts. 10.,6 x 9.5 mm available

		Rescued Amethyst   It was really time to rescue one of the "misused" gems out of my box with candidates for rescuing. This time a bigger Amethyst with near flawless clarity and medium to strong saturation. A slightly elongated version of the "Lighthouse of Porporela" fits perfectly into the former shape. 7.85 cts. 15.5 x 11.7 x 9.6 mm available

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