Uvite — specimen 0030, photo © NMNHS

Uvite — specimen 0030

Origin

North America

Canada, Ontario, Haliburton County, Irondale, Salerno Lake

Data

Weight: 0.18 ct; size: 4.87 | 3.00 | 1.96 mm; shape: oval; colour: medium dark orangey yellow; strong; clarity: eye clean; cut: fair; treatment: none.

Notes

Very clean specimen; mixed style cut.

More information from ‘Classification’

Uvite

Typically in calcium-rich rocks subjected to contact metamorphism and metasomatic processes which added boron (Anthony et al., 2001—2005).