![]() Rough material can come out of the ground looking green, be left in the sun for the day and be glowing pink overnight! Some say only treated kunzite will fade others say all Kunzite can fade over time.Īs you turn a Kunzite gemstone in your hand it can flash from pink to violet or dark pink to colorless in some examples. There are enough anecdotes and reports about the effect of sun on Kunzite (or spodumene) to realize this is a special and unusual gemstone. ![]() ![]() It has been said that long exposure to the sun will cause the color to fade and Kunzite should only be worn at night. In the case of Kunzite it is the presence of manganese mineral traces as the crystals form that cause the delightful pink and violet hues. The color tends to be quite delicate in most cases although some more vivid and vibrant gemstones can be found.Īs with all colored gemstones it is the color that really determines the price and the darker more intense tones fetch the higher prices. Kunzite is the pale pink to violet form of the mineral spodumene. Jewelers of the day soon realized that no one is going to want to buy a gemstone ring that sounds like a medicine for stomach ailments no matter how beautiful they may be! The pink gemstone was named Kunzite after the gemologist and vice-president of Tiffany's George Kunz and the green gemstone was called Hiddenite after the mineralogist Will Hidden. Certainly Katy Perry would not wear an 80 carat Spodumene ring to the Grammy's but she did wear a spectacular pink Kunzite!īefore cars and smart phones, Spodumene was used in ceramics, glass making, steel production and medicine but all that changed at the end of the 19th century with first the discovery of delightful green spodumene and then the finding of delicate pink and lovely lilac versions. The mineral spodumene is the source of lithium which is used in the production of car and smartphone batteries and seems about as far from the glamorous and colorful world of gemstones as you can get. If this article was all about the gemstone Spodumene I bet it would only get half as many visitors as it does.
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