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what to do with these benitoite?

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Shiny_Rock
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I just found these benitoite among my collection. At first, I was about to heat treating the colorless benitoite to get an orange one. Unfortunately, I found out that heat treating benitoite is risky as benitoite tend to explode inside the furnace. I was thinking to made them into earning or pendant, but I concern about benitoite's durability. what should i do?

I bet you will ask for pics, I tried my best to capture the dispersion.

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a little quiz: of those 5 stones, there is one sneaky diamond. can you guess which one is it?

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A skilled bench should have no issues setting the benitoite as earrings and pendant, and they also hold up well because there is far less stress /banging around on the ears and neck (if the chain is short).
 
Yes make sure you get someone who knows what they are doing! I've heard of jewelers trying to set those stones and completely destroying them! They sure are beautiful though
 
I would make a multi-stone pendant out of them, or necklace!
 
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