Benitoite Color Suite, 2.25 mm, with 1 Heat Treated Orange Benitoite
Pieces: 6,
Clarity: VVS
Type: Benitoite,
Luster: Excellent ,
Origin: San Benito County, California USA,
Weight: .31 tcw
Size: approx. 2.25 mm each
Color: Dark Blue to Colorless to Orange
Shape: Round Brilliant Cut
Here is an amazing rare color suite of 2.25 mm faceted benitoite gemstones.
These stones are small, but still very brilliant.
All of the stones have at least eye clean clarity with amazing fire.
Only a few sets of these amazing stones are assembled each year!
This set shows all the different color of benitoite, from deep blue with violet in color, to colorless, to a slight peachy orange.
Yes, I said Orange!
The most popular color for benitoite is that deep blue with violet color that benitoite is known for.
This color is 100% natural and any attempts to heat treat these blue benitoite just destroy the stones.
The rarest natural color for benitoite is actually colorless or some call them white.
These stones lack the popular blue color but look very much like diamonds.
However these crystals are very rare and most often form as very small crystals.
What very few people are aware of is that, only these rare colorless / white benitoite can be heat treated.
When properly heated, they will never turn blue, but instead they turn beautiful shades of Peach to Orange.
Very few stones are ever heated and as you can imagine most stones are destroyed during this process,
leaving only very few to ever hit the market in any given year.
For these reasons there will never be any commercial production of these colored benitoite.
This is a rare set. Only a very few of these sets can be made year year, I only have a few others in different stone sizes.
A truly beautiful collector set!
