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The Show your Paraiba or Copper bearing tourmaline thread

Re: The Show your Paraiba or Copper bearing tourmaline threa

New project: a small sapphire and paraiba 5 stone ring. Yvonne will put it in her hex setting for me. :)
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Re: The Show your Paraiba or Copper bearing tourmaline threa

mochiko42|1489371577|4139576 said:
New project: a small sapphire and paraiba 5 stone ring. Yvonne will put it in her hex setting for me. :)
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What an impressive selection of stones Mochiko!!! This will be such a beautiful ring with these saturated sapphire and Paraiba stones :love: Did Yvonne sourced these for you?

We do need a 'Mochiko's selection' thread!!!
 
Re: The Show your Paraiba or Copper bearing tourmaline threa

mochiko42|1489371577|4139576 said:
New project: a small sapphire and paraiba 5 stone ring. Yvonne will put it in her hex setting for me. :)
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This is going to be a beauty. Can't wait to see pics, once it's done! :love:
 
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This is just a cuprian which almost fell in my lap. Not clean but amazingly glowy and over 2 ct. Recut, just leave, or set? No clue, I don't know much about them. You can see by the color of my skin how little light there is in the room.

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I finally got my little pear back from the jeweler. Single halo with alternating white and blue diamonds (the color matches a lot better IRL compared to this photo!).

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Mic drop...

Talk about neon glow!
 
snotty_pie said:
I finally got my little pear back from the jeweler. Single halo with alternating white and blue diamonds (the color matches a lot better IRL compared to this photo!).

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Wow!!! That's amazing Snotty!!!
 
@snotty_pie that looks amazing! I didn't think of blue diamonds! I thought that the colours wouldn't match.

@kylier and @Acinom Wow! that also looks amazing. The ring has a very interesting design.

I'm planning to make Paraiba ring down the road, these are great inspirations!
 
@mahaha - It's not a 100% match (the lighter color that the diamond shows matches but then the darker part doesn't as well), but even then it compliments the color well. My jeweler also spent a lot of time hand-selecting the blue diamonds that would match better, which was very nice of him. :)
 
Arkteia said:
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This is just a cuprian which almost fell in my lap. Not clean but amazingly glowy and over 2 ct. Recut, just leave, or set? No clue, I don't know much about them. You can see by the color of my skin how little light there is in the room.

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Please do not recut, you risk losing saturation. I think it's lovely as is.
 
T L said:
Please do not recut, you risk losing saturation. I think it's lovely as is.
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It is saturated, but I am not used to the fact that they are included. They are mostly included and it looks unusual to me.
 
Arkteia said:
It is saturated, but I am not used to the fact that they are included. They are mostly included and it looks unusual to me.
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Yes but then what would recutting do, silly billy?! Just make it a smaller, less saturated included stone, lol!
 
minousbijoux said:
Yes but then what would recutting do, silly billy?! Just make it a smaller, less saturated included stone, lol!
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I know. Minous, I should probably make a post about the stones acquired in pre-precision cut times. Some are insanely beautiful, but I have a feeling that they can be improved, just don't know much about what is available now.
 
Arkteia said:
I know. Minous, I should probably make a post about the stones acquired in pre-precision cut times. Some are insanely beautiful, but I have a feeling that they can be improved, just don't know much about what is available now.
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I totally understand - and maybe if you start such a thread, I'll get around to adding my stones pre-precision cut times as well! :oops:
 
Not mine, but I saw this at a recent gem show. It's a lavender purple copper bearing tourmaline, and the dealer kept calling it a paraiba. I don't think I agree with that, but I thought I'd post it anyways. It's still a super rare color of tourmaline.

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T L said:
Not mine, but I saw this at a recent gem show. It's a lavender purple copper bearing tourmaline, and the dealer kept calling it a paraiba. I don't think I agree with that, but I thought I'd post it anyways. It's still a super rare color of tourmaline.

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The purple stones are unheated and some have obvious copper needles inside as one of my dealers have showed me in the loupe and they can turn the neon blue or blue green when heated. I'm not sure though if this is the case for the pictured stone.
 
Seaglow said:
The purple stones are unheated and some have obvious copper needles inside as one of my dealers have showed me in the loupe and they can turn the neon blue or blue green when heated. I'm not sure though if this is the case for the pictured stone.
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Yes, true. Here's my six carat cushion. It has a GIT lab memo indicating the presence of copper. If heated,it might turn bluish.

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TL,

Yours is a nice hue (even when left untouched) than many stones I've seen before heating. Many are grayish purple and not very attractive and they are more of collector stones but turn a fantastic blue after heating.
 
snotty_pie said:
I finally got my little pear back from the jeweler. Single halo with alternating white and blue diamonds (the color matches a lot better IRL compared to this photo!).

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Do you have more pics of your ring? I am thinking of making a ring similar to this. Thanks!
 
Seaglow said:
TL,

Yours is a nice hue (even when left untouched) than many stones I've seen before heating. Many are grayish purple and not very attractive and they are more of collector stones but turn a fantastic blue after heating.
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Seaglow I remember reading a thread (it may have been on the GIA forum, don't remember) where a collector had a beautiful bright pink copper bearing tourmaline. He heated it and it turned almost colorless. He took it in stride but it was very interesting and I was glad he shared pictures. I suspect he hoped to get the stone that paraiba blue color that is so coveted for it's unique beauty. Just thought I'd share that story because it was not what I would have expected.
 
LisaRN said:
Seaglow I remember reading a thread (it may have been on the GIA forum, don't remember) where a collector had a beautiful bright pink copper bearing tourmaline. He heated it and it turned almost colorless. He took it in stride but it was very interesting and I was glad he shared pictures. I suspect he hoped to get the stone that paraiba blue color that is so coveted for it's unique beauty. Just thought I'd share that story because it was not what I would have expected.
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It is definitely possible for the stone to react that way as copper-bearing tourmalines may also have other impurities that give them color such as iron and manganese. Also, professional heaters have a certain temperature they use. Stones can be overheated. Copper is unaffected by hearing most of the time and they produce the neon color....which is mostly on the green side rather than blue, thus the premium in blue stones, apart from demand. But when overheated, the stones become lighter. Also even if you achieve the neon color, there might be some brown inclusions seen in some stones, which can be copper inclusions just more evident with the lighter hue compared to the dark unheated hue the stone was before heating. Manganese, on the other hand, takes out red coloration, and can go away with heating.
 
So I'm going through this thread for the 100th time again and I read a comment I made last year (When I was only dreaming about paraiba's) along the lines of you "lucky lucky lucky ladies".... now I'm a lucky lady myself! I truly feel blessed by where I am on my gemstone journey, I feel blessed to be able to be on any gemstone journey at all... and I'm sincerely thankful we have this forum and all you guys to speak to and learn from.

Never thought I'd own a 'proper' paraiba (and I don't care I consider my 5mm one to be substantial/proper even though it's meelee size to some :P) so I'd given up on hoping for one. Sincere thanks again to Elle on this forum who informed me she was returning the 5mm one (I had a 4mm one initially) and was here listening as I talked/wondered/aimlessly waffled on about whether I should upgrade or not haha. So grateful to you Elle!

So question: do most paraiba's (especially from Yvonne) darken up a bit once set? By darken up I don't mean negatively, somehow the paraibas here that people have set look so much better then when she lists them unset...? :think: Almost like they look deeper in colour?
 
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