Unboxing Tsavorite & More African Color Gems
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
- Brighter than emerald, rarer than diamond, on today's episode we're unboxing Tsavorite! Rebecca is joined by Bruce Bridges, whose father discovered this amazing green gem! Learn the properties of this unique garnet and see the largest precision cut specimen in history. Plus, we've got even more of the finest 100% natural color gems Africa has to offer!
00:45 - Unboxing Tsavorite Garnet
03:08 - Emerald v. Tsavorite
05:32 - Spessartine Mandarin Garnet
06:47 - Mahenge Red Spinel
08:55 - Largest Tsavorite in History
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At 11:09 you can really feel the respect he has for his father and that his discovery can be cherished by everyone, what an awesome legacy.
Garnets are incredible. Very underrated minerals.
Yes, and the fact that most of them don't need heat treatment to enhance their color is incredible.
I could totally relate with him... a lot of my favorite gemstones are also underrated. I'm also not into treated gemstones.
Iolites, Garnets, Spinels, Labradorite, Colored Freshwater Pearls, Red Jasper, Tigers Eye, White Chalcedony, Strawberry Quartz, Titanium Oxide Rutilated Quartz, Tourmalinated Quartz and Copper Rutilated Quartz, etc.
I'm a garnet baby. I'm a garnet girl through and through. Seeing those stunning garnets make my heart sing. Spessartite and tsavorite are my favorites !
Jan 9.
Garnets all the way
Really fascinating i have spessartine garnet in heart shape?
Come here in kenya theirs so much tsavorites
@@njiakuuyeremia6167 weren't they first found in Tsavo national park ? I love their story !
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Ah, Mr Bridges. I attended a talk of his earlier this year about tsavorite garnet and his family's history behind that. Definitely a great guy who knows his stuff. :)
I can proudly say that I own all of these gemstones set in jewelry. Love them all.
Tsavorite is one of my favorite gemstones!!!! Beautiful!
Hyy
I got some for sell
God bless Campbell Bridges and his son. They embody the spirit of discovery that in many ways keeps the fire of gemstones and gemology burning brightly. I thank them and applaud. A BIG thank you to the JTV and Gemstones channel for bringing us such wonderful videos. Great job!
I’m from Zim and my mum worked at a mine, one day when we went to meet her at work one of the big bosses took us on a tour, he took us to his office and showed us some of the things they mined that he kept and one of them was a raw Tsavorite that they came across. I didn’t understand it at the time but I loved the green colour and was when I decided green was my favourite colour.
Hyyy
I had the pleasure of seeing the Lion of Merelani at the Alfie Norville Gem and Mineral Museum where I have volunteered. Such a beautiful gem with such rich history. 🥰
Wow, that must have been a wonderful moment to actually see the Lion in person. 😀
Amazing presentation. Bridges Tsavorite is the only Tsavorite to buy in my opinion. Pure green - better than emerald - AND coming from one of the finest mining and colored gem families in the world!
WOWZAH! These three different stones are just OUTSTANDING!!!
Much prefer tsavorite to emerald! Bruce is a wealth of information. Great video!
HIS biggest gem apparently was his father.
Profound ' The Lion of Merelani'
Thanks for honoring your Dad this way Bruce🙏🏽
I just love garnets..of all colours..
Hyyyy
Hyyy
Glad to have interacted with both Brigde and son.
Tsavorite. The TSA's favorite gemstone
Hyyy
First, thank you, BOTH, for such lessons and all the sharing! 💚🧡
I'm a huge fan of JTV and now, of these "gemmy" and very informative episodes!
20+ years ago,
I purchased many (affordable) jewelry items before I began purchasing loose gems and (many) loose mix gem packages. I have a whole "simple person who loves rocks" collection that kept me amused, wowed and busy as I went through my "blind buys" one by one. These all kept me busy while I battled my illnesses and disabilities.
The long of it, I have super nice gems that I couldn't and still cannot identify absolutely. This episode has cleared up some things for me and I'm so appreciative!
I have beautifully cut gems that I adore that I believed were synthetic but now, seeing this, I believe I have the real deal.. I have several of each of the Tsavorite and Spessartite, Spinel and even a very beautifully cut oval shape gem that appears to be an Alexandrite (GORGEOUS DOUBLE COLOR!) and until I can confirm what it truly is, I have to think that it's synthetic.. but a phenomenal one! (Even a very reputable jeweler from my area couldn't say if it is real or not nor what it is!)
Anyway, I set one of my largest oval shaped Mandarin Spessartite into a simple, thin gold ring prong and used it as my wedding ring 15 years ago. So unique! It's absolutely priceless! And had set a large, partially heat treated pear shaped Tanzanite into a petite band of white gold with tiny diamonds surrounding band and large medium lavender/greenish agua colored Tanzanite stone.
Proud of my gems and my jewelry creations. I'm going to be rediscovering all my gems again using all the new information I'm learning from your fascinating and informative videos.. thank you!
Stay awesome!
Love y'all! 💚
It is so beautiful it almost doesn't seem to be a real natural gemstone....that must of been so exciting when that and the lion stone was found.....it will live on for an eternity. Thank you for sharing your beautiful gems with us all.
Beautiful gems! Love watching Rebecca because she's so knowledgable and very conscious of the audience by showing the gems close up for us to see. Thanks, Rebecca and also Bruce.
Spinel is one of my birthstone. I used to really like sapphire. Now i wanted spinel
Another super interview and interviewee! Beautiful stones, learnt so much too! Great channel
I get goosebumps looking at this stuff.
😱 I am in total awe of these Tsavorite green Garnets. The Spressartite Garnet was so warming. As for the Lion of Merelani, well, it’s priceless. As for the stones on the table, well, I couldn’t choose a favourite, but Rebecca made an excellent choice. Huge thank yous to Bruce for showing us these beautiful stones.
Hyyy
OMG! incredible specimens. Really enjoyed seeing them all, such incredible gifts from Mother Nature.
Hyyy
Completely agree, I too very much prefer Spinel over Ruby. The reds in Spinel are more complex as opposed to the rather single hued Ruby. And Garnets are just hard to beat in their color range and beauty. Some of my favorite stones are always undervalued.
I always found rubies to have superior depth of color to spinel, which I think I admire more than the complexity of spinel.
Just bought my first tsavorite! 1.06 carat. It is a beautiful color. I can't wait to get it.
Now I have a desire to collect different varieties of garnet.
The raspberry spinel at first I thought it was a rhodolite garnet because the color. Even though is not the most common color for spinel nothing compares to the Mahenge red spinel one of my favorite gemstones. Some of the pure red spinels is nicer than almost rubies. The Mandarin garnet over 10 cts eye clean is extraordinary.
actually more like the color of pink tourmaline
Very educational and much appreciated.
I’ll get some tsavorite some day
Hyy
This channel is so informational thank you 😊👍
Great episode! Learn so much about Tsavorite today
Glad you enjoyed it!
Am from Kenya and i love Gemstones
Love everything about this video ❤
I absolutely love this channel I love the ladies on here.
They make my day that much better.
Life long gem lover myself recently got into school start in Aug gia online and in California can't wait. Went for cored stones I'm not a huge diamond fan
I'd do anything to work under u ladies or Brian I forgot his name lol.
I've come to find out ill never be able to accomplish my dreams of becoming a gemologist such as yourselves. It's a money thing.
Don't jave the fund to pay for school can't get financial aid for cored stones etc.
Life long passion just gone like that. At least you and jtv keep my fire burning so to speak.
Just got home from rockhounding got me so Kambamba Jasper and mahogany obsidian.
I'm more of a garnet agate citrine ametrine or sapphire type of guy. Emeralds r ok to lol.
Anyway keep it up love you girls and guys keep it up and the dude wit bolo ties he is super cool I love him I feel I'd be like tht just random stones and gems in my pockets the thrill and excitement he has talking about specimens is how I feel daily just looking thinkn or finding them
Hyyy
Wow that orange was perfect!
Wow that’s a pretty green!
Is there a video on phenakite? Trying to learn more about it. And omg those are beautiful
I love the color of tsavorite but I must admit that I prefer the deep green of chrome diopside by a slight margin.
Those gems are gorgeous 😍
Very beautiful stones. Just much more of an ideal stone compared to emerald. Can’t beat this color
The first time I saw Tsavorite I literally had a waking flashback/vision. I don't know how to explain it because nothing like it has happened to me before or since but I know I need to own one.
Wow its amazing 🥰😘
Emerald is tough to dethrone. I do love Tsavorite though and I hope more people discover and enjoy it.
It's tough to dethrone mainly because of its history, heavy marketing and Hollywood movies, but in every other department Tsavorite is the real winner 🏅
@@IvanCapitaniboth are beautiful.
Thanks 👍
😻 lovely
Serpentine gemstone is my favorite
buddy. WWoohoo,very super channel-all the best.=))
Gorgeous wildly gorgeous!
Great episode
And now I’m a tsavorite fan 💚
Great vid. So hypothetically what would a decent 11ct tsavorite go for?
Brilho mais que a esmeralda 👍👍👍👍
Awesome gems. I'd take these over rubies and emeralds any day. It would have been great to know the price though.
The big four, diamonds, rubies, emeralds and sapphires are overrated in my opinion; their prestige is mostly related to their long history, heavy marketing and Hollywood movies rather than anything else. On the other hand, garnets and spinels are such underrated gems, second to none.
Dang that red spinel!
How exactly does tsavorite turn into tanzanite/ zoisite ?
Hyyy
Tanzanite?
💖💖💖💖💖💖👋👋👋👋👋👋👋💐🌷🌹🌸🌴🌻🌹💐🌷🌸🌴🌻🌷جييييييييييييييييييل جدا أحسنت رائع جدا
10:38 if that is the Tsavorite that was cut, what happened to all the rest of the material? it is only like 1/10 of the size. Maybe they cut more stones out of it?
Hyyyy
It is likely they took off material before hand to cut into other stones, but when you cut any stone in general you typically lose between 40 to 70 percent of unrecoverable material in the cutting process. For something this big, they may have taken a laser to it before they cut the main stone to preserve material to cut other stones, but that is not how most stone cutting is done with average individual rough stones. They just grind down the material, and it is lost in the process of shaping and then cutting the facets into the gemstone.
I have treasured rough pink diamond.for sale
Having tsavorite, green sapphire, chrome diopside and green tourmaline (one with a blueish z axis, one just green)...they are all nice. But tsavorite rocks ..ha
Gemstones are "included"...at no extra cost. My joke
Omg this channel is amazing.
I would still choose emerald for its bluish green color. Besides, a certain degree of visible inclusions make a natural gem more beautiful
I love seeing these gems, but sometimes the angle they're shot at doesn't show them too well - like I can see straight through the stone at 12:30. A face-up shot shouldn't show that windowing
I also noticed that. especially the Mahenge Spinel seemed to be very windowed. it's called a window, where the some of the facets are not cut well so instead of the light reflecting? it's just passing through. and that's what it seems is happening. But I'm hesitant because I would THINK these people would know about windows and how that affects that value and beauty of a gem. I'd love someone with more info to enlighten me.
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How may I contact you pls? I have some sweet gems we can work on
You can email us at socialmedia@jtv.com
She so beautiful
Rebecca is beautiful 😍 ❤ 💖 ♥ 💕.
Tsavorite is tso tsatisfying
أين داعمين جمع احجار النيازك
"We say Zimbabwe now, don't we?"
"Do we?"
😉
လှပတောက်ပသောတွင်ထွက်ရတနာများအလှကမြင်ယသူအဖိုစွဲမက်စရာကောင်ပါသည်
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I have finally found a tsavorite dealer in Kenya whom I might buy a sample from. I will have it tested. If it turns out a scam, well, no harm, no foul, and I will report. I called him last night on video chat.
My curiosity about the illegal mining of gemstones in Kenya has also brought me here. The fight is on now
@@Rafaelnk21 oh, man. I never even thought of that. How can I tell if I am legally purchasing the stone?
Tsavorite vs Emerald??? I'll take Tsavorite without a doubt. There's too much skullduggery that goes on with Emeralds. Oils and fillers and such. If Emeralds need all of these tweaks, treatments or enhancements to make them beautiful or acceptable as a gem, are they truly a gem??? I am not a fan of "synthetic gems" or "gems" that have been tinkered with to achieve gem status.
How on earth do I get to be an apprentice under you or Rebecca or any of you amazing peeps at jtv on UA-cam? I spent my entire life collecting and learning by myself about geology geology and mineralogy it's a lifelong Passion I love it more than anything I want to go to school for it more than anything through GIA or gem a and yet I can't get any financial aid or support elsewhere no grants nothing and I'm a broke single father Just trying to turn in a lifelong dream and Passion into a career I know I can do great things with is there any way you guys can help me at all I'll do anything I'll work for free just to get the knowledge I'll be your errand boy I'll do whatever I'll do all the heavy lifting so to speak.
I want and need this I'm hungry meaning I want this more than most.
I never heard of this gemstone tsavorite before but it looks very pretty.🙎♀️💎🟢 To know the facts🤔 about them, how they're form and it's from Africa🌍 like the others shown with it too. It's very interesting that tsavorite is more stronger and "greener" then emerald.💎🟢 Thanks for teaching us about them and nice video.🙂👩🏫