Gem stories: Taaffeite

Very rare eye clean Taaffeite weighing 2.32cts from Sri Lanka.

Taaffeite is one of the rarest and most desirable of collector's gemstones. Only a very few stones have been found and most of them originally misidentified as spinel. Multicolour.com, discovered some taafeites in it's mine run material from Tunduru, Tanzania.