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35 piece LOT - Total Weight 3ct - Tanzanite Marquise Fabulous little Tanzanites - Buy 1 or Buy them all! Please Note: The picture is a stock picture however the tanzanites that are up for Auction are basically identical. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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A thousand times rarer than diamonds and with a little over a decade of mine life remaining, Tanzanite is the fashion gem of the millennium.
Tanzanite is exclusively mined in East Africa in an area of Tanzania known as Merelani. The Tanzanite deposits are hosted in metamorphic rocks, marbles and schists that belong to the Mozambique Belt (Rift Valley). The deposits run through the low hills of Merelani that rise from the hot Sanya plains, close to Mount Kilimanjiro. Running at an angle of 41 degrees from the bowels of the Earth to the surface, the deposit line or horizon periodically folds over itself creating richly concentrated pockets of Tanzanite. These pockets provide gem miners with the richest pickings of these coveted green, pink, ultramarine and purple-blue gemstones.