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Locality: Merelani Hills, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania
Description: Tanzanite has only been known since 1967. The most common telling is that a Maasai herder found violet-blue crystals weathering out of the ground in the Merelani Hills of northern Tanzania. He showed them to prospector Manuel d'Souza, who quickly registered mining claims, hoping he had found sapphire. Other accounts credit a Meru herdsman, Jumanne Mhero Ngoma, with the first find.
At first no one was sure what the crystals were. They turned out to be a blue gem variety of zoisite. Tiffany & Co. became the main distributor, named the gem after the country it came from, and launched it with a big publicity campaign in 1968.
All tanzanite comes from this one small area, where it is mined from folded metamorphic rocks. Hot fluids moving through faults reacted with the rock and grew the crystals, often in cavities or along quartz veins. The colour is linked to vanadium, and tanzanite shows strong pleochroism, looking blue, violet or other shades from different directions.
This one of a kind tanzanite specimen shows the sharp, elongated crystal form that makes natural tanzanite so recognizable to collectors. The piece has a clear violet-blue to blue-purple body color, with a smaller attached crystal adding extra character and dimension. In the photos, the crystal shows good transparency in places, visible internal features, natural surface lines, and the straight-sided prismatic shape typical of zoisite. It is a compact specimen, but it has strong visual impact because the color remains obvious even at a small size, and the crystal form is still easy to read.
Many people are drawn to tanzanite for its association with insight, change, and mental clarity. It is often chosen by those who feel they are entering a new chapter or trying to see their situation more clearly. Its cool blue-violet color gives it a calm, thoughtful presence that many people connect with reflection, intuition, and steady personal growth.
Quantity: 1pc
With this product, you will get the actual stone in the photograph.