Ametrine
Ranked #8,393 in Fashion & Beauty, #131,825 overall
Ametrine: Two gems for the price of one.
Traditional Octagon cut Ametrine
Ametrine is a wonderful combination of Amethyst and Citrine.
Only found in the Anahi Mine in Bolivia, natural Ametrine is becoming increasingly rare.
Some suppliers have indicated that the Ametrine mines have run out. Quality material is now very difficult to obtain. The price for natural Ametrine is on the rise.
Due to the scarcity of material, both heat enhanced natural quartz, and synthetic ametrine are on the market and as they are optically and physically like Nature's product, sophisticated gemological testing is necessary to detect them. Consider carefully when buying a gem that you only purchase a natural mined from the earth gem that will increase in value.
Checker Board Cut Ametrine
Fancy Cut Amatrine wings
Ametrine with mixed colors
Ametrine is most typically faceted in a rectangular shape with a 50/50 pairing of amethyst and citrine. Sometimes a checkerboard pattern of facets is added to the top to increase light reflection. Ametrine can also be cut to blend the two colors so that the resulting stone is a mix of yellow, purple, and peach tones throughout the stone. Ametrine is also popular among artistic cutters and carvers who play with the colors, creating landscapes in the stone.
More recently, however; some cutters have begun to cut a variety of shapes, many of which create internal reflections that blend the yellow and purple into attractive shades of rosy gold and mauve, or create mosaic-like flashes of both yellow and purple. Shown in the beautiful example below.
6 carat Ametrine oval
Care
Ametrine is a Durable gem. It is suitable for almost any kind the Jewelry and can be worn every day.
No special care is required as they are not sensitive to temperature change or household chemicals.
History
Ametrine first became famous in the seventeenth century when a Spanish conquistador received it as a dowry when he married a princess Anahi from the Ayoreos tribe. Ametrine was introduced to Europe through the conquistador's gifts to the Queen of Spain.
Healing and metaphysical properties
Amatrine is a combination of amethyst and citrine. It helps you recognize the divinity within all, thus eliminating prejudice. It helps release old programs in the mind and attunes you to higher states of consciousness in meditation.
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES:
- VARIETY: Quartz , SiO 2 , Silicon Dioxide.
- CRYSTAL SYSTEM: Trigonal
- COLOR: A mix of purple and yellow
- USES: Gemstone and ornamental stone.
- REFRACTIVE INDEX : 1.544-1.553
- HARDNESS: 7
- CLASS: tectosilicate
- CLEAVAGE: none
- FRACTURE: conchoidal
- LUSTER: vitreous
- STREAK: white
- PLEOCHROISM: weak to distinct
- SPECIFIC GRAVITY: 2.65
- TRANSPARENCY: opaque to transparent
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