Tanzanite engagement rings: the honest durability answer
Tanzanite is softer than sapphire and it cleaves. That rules it out for some hands and not others. What actually decides it is the setting and the wearer.
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Tanzanite is softer than sapphire and it cleaves. That rules it out for some hands and not others. What actually decides it is the setting and the wearer.
READBuy the colour, in the largest size that colour comes in, from somebody who will tell you what has been done to the stone. Everything else is detail.
READNo classical tradition assigns tanzanite anything, because the stone was unknown until 1967. What is documented, what is convention, and what is belief.
READYou cannot reliably tell a real tanzanite from a good simulant by looking. What you can safely check, what proves nothing, and what will cost you a gem.
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