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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How to buy tanzanite: what to judge, in what order
Buy 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.
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Is tanzanite good for astrology? What the traditions say
No classical tradition assigns tanzanite anything, because the stone was unknown until 1967. What is documented, what is convention, and what is belief.
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How to tell if a tanzanite is real
You 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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Tanzanite and the zoisite family: thulite, anyolite and more
Tanzanite is one variety of zoisite. Its relatives include pink thulite, ruby-studded anyolite and green or yellow zoisite, sometimes sold as fancy tanzanite.
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