Weight: 42.75ct
Length: 37.6mm including eyelet
Width: 23mm
Thickness at the thickest point: 6.2mm
Lavender Jade, aka Turkiyenite cabochon set in a Sterling silver bezel.
Turkiyenite Lavender Jade (Turkish Purple Jade) is a very rare, unique, mystical and mythical purple-colored gem material exclusively found in the Bursa region of western Turkey. Turkish Purple Jade is extremely difficult to source, as the only know location for it in the world is a small deposit found in the 1980s- which was subsequently mined and depleted to exhaustion by the 1990s. A lot of money was later spent exploring and surveying the area for more, however none was found. The only known remaining pieces of the gem material are old-stock pieces held by museums and private collectors.
“Turkiyenite” refers to a metamorphic rock and not a single mineral species- consisting mainly of jadeite (between 40% to 60%) and quartz, orthoclase, epidote, chloritoid, and phlogopite. Turkish purple jade has a unique quality called “photoluminescence,” meaning the stone’s color shifts to different shades depending on the light source.
