Pricing Info: Negotiable, Starting prices Range : 1500-8000 plus per Carat .

What is the price of chrysoberyl?

Pricing Info: Negotiable, Starting prices Range : 1500-8000 plus per Carat .

What is the rarest chrysoberyl?

The rarest form of chrysoberyl is alexandrite, a gem that displays remarkable response to light. Under incandescent light, alexandrite appears red. However, when moved into sunlight, it becomes deep green. No other known gemstone displays such dramatic color-changing properties.

Why is chrysoberyl so expensive?

Due to its rarity, it’s one of the lesser known gemstones, and many gem traders do not have it. Chrysoberyl’s price will depend on its variety (alexandrite is usually very expensive), as well as carat weight and clarity, among other factors.

How do you identify chrysoberyl?

Most specimens of chrysoberyl are nearly colorless or fall into the brown to yellow to green color range. Red specimens are occasionally found. Chrysoberyl often occurs in tabular or prismatic crystals with distinct striations (see photo below). It also occurs in twinned crystals with distinct star and rosette shapes.

Where is chrysoberyl most commonly found?

Brazil
Much of the chrysoberyl mined in Brazil and Sri Lanka is recovered from placers, as the host rocks have been intensely weathered and eroded. If the pegmatite fluid is rich in beryllium, crystals of beryl or chrysoberyl could form.

What is the difference between chrysoberyl and alexandrite?

Alexandrite is a very rare and valuable variety of chrysoberyl that shows color change. However, not all color-change chrysoberyls have the classic range of colors that alexandrites show. Although these gems are uncommon and valuable in their own right, they are sometimes marketed misleadingly as alexandrites.

Can chrysoberyl be blue?

Alexandrite is a very rare and valuable variety of chrysoberyl that shows color change….Determining Gemstone Value, Price, and Appraisals.

Daylight (Sunlight)	Incandescent light
blue Green	orange Red
very slightly blue Green	Red
Green	slightly purple Red

What Colour is chrysoberyl stone?

yellowish-green
Ordinary chrysoberyl is yellowish-green and transparent to translucent. When the mineral exhibits good pale green to yellow color and is transparent, then it is used as a gemstone. The three main varieties of chrysoberyl are: ordinary yellow-to-green chrysoberyl, cat’s eye or cymophane, and alexandrite.

How many types of chrysoberyl are there?

The three main varieties of chrysoberyl are: ordinary yellow-to-green chrysoberyl, cat’s eye or cymophane, and alexandrite.

Does chrysoberyl change colour?

Does chrysoberyl fluoresce?

Chrysoberyl usually shows no fluorescence. Cymophane is popularly known as cat´s eye. This variety exhibits pleasing chatoyancy or opalescence that reminds one of an eye of a cat.

What is chrysoberyl good for?

Chrysoberyl brings the qualities of discipline and self control. It promotes concentration and the ability to learn, enabling the wearer to think clearly and far-sightedly. Chrysoberyl aligns the solar plexus and crown chakras. It opens the crown chakra and increases both spiritual and personal power.

What colour is chrysoberyl stone?

How do you clean chrysoberyl?

4Caring for your chrysoberyl gems It is sensitive to knocks and extreme heat, but can be machine cleaned, following the instructions of the machine. And, as with most gemstones, warm soapy water is all it really needs to be cleaned.

Is chrysoberyl a gem?

Chrysoberyl is a hard, tough, and durable gem. Although lacking the fire of other gemstones, Chrysoberyl in its various forms can be quite valuable. Most Chrysoberyl gems are yellow, though some are brown, green, or orange.

What gemstone glows red under UV light?

The Hope Diamond Phosphorescence A famous example of a gemstone that strongly phosphoresces is the blue Hope Diamond, which glows a bright red for several minutes after being excited by short wave UV light.

What Crystal glows orange under black light?

Sodalite, a rich royal blue mineral, is what fluoresces underneath the ultraviolet light. (This means the sodalite absorbs the UV light and then emits it at a different wavelength, which is why it appears fiery orange.)