Main centres: | 1-3 business days |
Regional areas: | 3-4 business days |
Remote areas: | 3-5 business days |
Natural Tanzanian tanzanite
Cut - Oval
Clarity - VVS
Total weight - 0.100ct
It was the Maasai tribesman Ali Juuyawatu who first shared his blue-violet crystal find with Manuel de Souza (a Tailor by profession and prospector by passion) who was in the region searching for rubies. At first it was thought the stones were unusually vibrant sapphires, but the new gemstones were more complex than a sapphire, their colour more exotic. Manuel de Souza had no idea he’d encountered a gemstone the world had never seen, one that remained unnamed.