december

Je vous emmène à travers mes vidéos découvrir mon expérience acquise depuis plus de 30 ans a silloner le globe entier à la recherche de pierres précieuses, de rencontre mémorables mais aussi de difficulté parfois …

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yellow zircon of Sri Lanka brilliant cut

zircon

Its name comes from the Arabic “zargoun” muting in “jargon”, meaning vermilion. It is known since antiquity, but under different names. It may be colorless (rare), but also yellow, brown, orange, blue to blue-violet (called starlite) … and mostly brown green and dark red, the

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cabochon of turquoise from Iran

turquoise

This is simply the “Turkish stone” because when this gem came to Europe, it had passed through that country, but it came from Persia. The Greeks called it “callaite”. It was a sacred stone for the Egyptians, Persians, Tibetans, Indians, Mayans, Aztecs and Incas. Color

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tanzanite from Tanzania rectangular cut

tanzanite

This is the blue variety of zoisite. It would have been known since 1954, but it was in 1967 that Manuel de Souza “discovered” this gem by chance, in Arusha, Tanzania. Soon there were talks in the media about the “blue treasure of Africa”, referring

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