GRADING REPORT RRUN039
- Identification: Natural Unheated & Untreated Rubellite Tourmaline
- Carat: 0.39
- Shape: Round
- Measures: 4.32-4.51x3.24 (millimeter)
- Color Grade: Excellent
- Tone: Medium Dark 60
- Color Zoning: None
- Clarity: Lightly Included
- Cutting Grade: Excellent (precision cut)
> Brilliancy: 90%
> Depth: 75%
- Origin: Mozambique
- Treatment: None
Certificate No: IGI 389902009 (see 'more images')
Overall Grade: Excellent
Comment: Jump-up hot-pink tourmaline that refuses to be photographed appropriately. Not an ugly gem on photo, yet better IRL. The reason becomes visible only under the lens: a cluster of needles with a violet spot underneath. This off-color dot distracts our simple camera from focus (which it either does on the surface or the backside of the gem) and gives it all an untidy look. In person, however, the color-blast from the round 4+mm drowns all that and the gem still deserves its overall grade of 'excellent'. Certain rhodolites aside, such a tourmaline offers the best color/$ ratio in the market. Beyond that come only sapphires and bright rubies but such color is rare in unheated corundum and seriously costly. Although I can't claim to have studied many hot pink diamonds in person, those I did see would not survive round-one with this gem here. For a slender ladies' ring it does not get much better, only bigger and not everybody is a fan of posh big gems, money aside. Here is all the world's neon-pink summoned into 60 square-millimeters. 3*NOS, IGI report, free global shipping, WLT plot, NhRP support, and grading certificate are included; a bespoke setting, flush, prongs or bezel are recommended extras.
P.S. This is not one of the pinks from the Pakistani tourmaline parcel but a single incomer from late last year.
