Chrysoberyl (var: Alexandrite) (color-changing twin) Goddard & Mihelic and Groben The majority of the crystals

The majority of the crystals are undamaged

virtually eye-clean Tourmaline gem with a lovely pinkish-orange color and slight peach highlights depending upon the angle at which the stone is viewed

antimony sulfosalt Franckeite consisting of somewhat "sword"-shaped crystals oriented into spherical aggregates which are sitting on matrix

This is unique material

Item # OPALFEVERMEX067

Chrysoberyl (var: Alexandrite) (color-changing twin) Goddard & Mihelic and Groben The majority of the crystalsAlexandrite is one of the most well known color changing minerals varieties of species extant. As a matter of fact, when we refer to other color changing minerals varieties, the term "Alexandrite Type" effect is often used to describe the color change. Alexandrite is not actually a species, but rather the color changing variety of Chrysoberyl, first discovered in Russia in the 1830 was and named after Tsar Alexander II. Even though the material has