Hpj Connoisseurs Portfolio: Extremely Rare 2.40 Carat Vs Morogoro Tanzania Petschite

 EXTREMELY RARE 2.40 CARAT VS TANZANIAN PETSCHITE FROM MOROGORO, ULUGURU MOUNTAINS, TANZANIA.GEM TYPE: PETSCHITECARAT WEIGHT: 2.40 CARATSDIMENSIONS: 8.00 x 7.00mmCOLOUR: AS IMAGECLARITY: VSCUT: CUSHION CUT TREATMENTS: NONEAn EXTREMELY rare super AAA quality Petschite from Morogoro, Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania. The colour is absolutely breathtaking and the stone is exceptionally clean for a Petschite.Petschite is the name for the very rare violet/purple variety of Scapolite discovered in Tanzania in the 1970s. The origin of the name is uncertain, though it may possibly be names after Eckehard Julius Petsch a well known gem dealer and prospector in Africa. Scapolite owes its name to its prismatic facies (from the Greek skapos rod and lithos, stone) and designates an isomorphic series going from Sodic Marialite to Calcic Meionite.
The members of this series are the Wernerite, the Dipyre, the Meionite, the Marialite. The Wernerite, which is at the center of this series is named after Werner, Professor Of Mineralogy at Freiberg in Germany in the late eighteenth century.