Chrysoberyl Cat’s Eye Gemstone.

Posted by slang on September 7, 2009

The most famous and valuable cat’s eye gemstone is chrysoberyl cat’s eye. The cat’s eye can fetched very high premium with its vivid cat’s eye effect. In fact, some of the prices of the chrysoberyl cat’s eye are comparable to the prices rivaling high quality sapphire.

Interestingly when cat’s eye is mentioned amongst jewelers, they normally mean the Chrysoberyl cat’s eye. Other types of cat’s eye gems require an designation like cat’s eye apatite, cat’s eye quartz and others.

Many would wonder the reasons for the sought after chrysoberyl instead of other types of cat’s eyes. The reasons are as follows:

• Chrysoberyl has superb gemstone characteristics, with a hardness of 8.5 on the Mohs scale. This places chrysoberyl right behind ruby and sapphire as an especially hard-wearing gem, suitable for all kinds of jewelry. Because of its excellent hardness, chrysoberyl takes a good polish and displays superb luster.
• Chrysoberyl cat’s eye displays a very sharp cat’s eye that can be seen in any kind of light. Some other gem varieties that exhibit phenomena such as the cat’s eye or star effect do so only when strong light is focused on the stone.
• Some chrysoberyl cat’s eyes also have a considerable degree of translucency, rarely found in gems cut as cabochons.

More details  of Chrysoberyl:

• Chrysoberyl was discovered in 1789 and described and named by Abraham Gottlob Werner, in 1790. Werner worked at the Freiberg School of Mining from 1790-1793 and was well known as one of the most outstanding geologists of his time.
• Chrysoberyl is usually found in golden-yellow, green-yellow, brownish or red tones. The main deposits are in Brazil, Sri Lanka, Burma, Madagascar, Russia, Zimbabwe and the USA.
• Incidentally, there is another chrysoberyl which is the Alexandrite, chrysoberyl cat’s eye which is quite rare and exotic.

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