Favorite jewelry

  The history of tsavorite Tsavorite is one of three precious minerals (plus tanzanites and Paraiba tourmalines) discovered in the second half of the 20th century. His story is like a detective story: The first bright green, emerald-like stones were found in 1967 in Tanzania by Kenyan gemologist of Scottish origin Campbell bridge. However, it was forbidden to export gems from there. Unlike neighboring Kenya. Here, in the Tsavo national Park, there were also sparkling stones. The Park went down in the history of jewelry art along with the mineral. It was dubbed tsavorit, which is as close to the local sound as possible. Campbell bridge and Tiffany jewelry house are considered the godparents of the stone. It was the gemologist who charmed the company's representatives with the gem. That meeting was fateful: after some seven years, the Tiffany brand made him a favorite. And the owner of the company, Henry Platt, came up with a name for the stone. Africans claim that

  Origin history It was first discovered in the middle of the 19th century in Russia. Children found the mineral while frolicking on the Bank of the Bobrovka river. The find was first taken for a kind of chrysolite. Russian demantoids began to be mined by prospectors who extracted platinum and gold nuggets in the valley of this river. Only in 1849 did the minerals fall into the hands of the Finnish Explorer Nils Nordenskiold. He studied the gem and found that it is a chrome-containing variety of andradite garnet, which has an unusual color that changes from emerald to chrysolite, and not the chrysolite itself. Five years later, Nordenskiold spoke about the results of his research at a meeting of the Mineralogical society. In the same place, he suggested calling the stone a "demantoid" because it had a strong "play" of color, like a diamond. Engagement ring Varieties of stone All demantoids differ in their composition. The presence of certain chem