Serendibite — specimen 0438, photo © NMNHS

Serendibite — specimen 0438

Origin

Southeast Asia

Myanmar, Mandalay, Mogok, 22.930097°N 96.515206°E

Serendibite — specimen 0438, locality map

Data

Weight: 0.48 ct; size: 7.25 | 4.71 | 2.22 mm; shape: pear; colour: dark very strongly greenish blue; clarity: eye clean; cut: fair; treatment: none.

Notes

Very clean specimen; brilliant style cut.

Other specimens

More information from ‘Classification’

Serendibite

In skarns, affected by boron metasomatism, along the contact between carbonate rocks and granite (Anthony et al., 2001—2005). One of the rarest gemstones.