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Mined from: 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 a strong natural violet-blue body color with a darker, earthy matrix attached across part of the crystal. The piece has a stout prismatic shape with crisp angular faces, visible lengthwise striations, and a pointed termination that still reads clearly despite natural contact and break surfaces. In several views the crystal shifts from a cooler blue-violet to a softer lavender tone, and that color variation gives the specimen a lot of visual depth. The contrast between the cleaner transparent areas and the rougher, matrix-covered side makes it especially appealing as a natural display piece rather than just a fragment of gem rough.
Tanzanite is often associated with insight, composure, and inner clarity. Many people are drawn to it as a stone of reflection and perspective, and it is commonly kept as a symbol of calm focus, intuition, and meaningful personal change.
Quantity: 1pc
With this product, you will get the actual stone in the photograph.