Product Tag - GRG440

Taaffeite Natural Genuine Gemstone Rare Rough Crystal 0.96 KT GRG,440
THE GEMSTONE WEIGHT IS 0.96 CT

Taaffeite was first discovered in 1945 by the Irish-Austrian gemologist, Count Edward Charles Richard Taaffe (1898 – 1967). Taaffe was sorting through a parcel of cut and polished Sri Lankan spinel gemstones when he discovered something that he knew could not be spinel since it was so obviously doubly refractive (spinel, like garnet and diamond, is singly refractive). This is one of the rare cases where the first sample of a new gem variety was found in the form of a faceted stone.