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Tanzanite Jewelry

Tanzanite is a relatively modern discovery to the world of jewelry, found in Tanzania in the 1960s. It's an unusual jewel, being a deep blue or blue-purple variety of a rather dull mineral called zoisite.

Naturally occuring tanzanite is extremely rare, as the zoisite has to be exposed to extremely high temperatures to change it from the base mineral form to something suitable for use in jewelry, and this typically only happens with exposed deposits of zoisite that have been exposed to bush fires. As a result, the tanzanite features here has been carefully heat treated for the perfect color.

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