Turkiyenite (Lavender Jade) Raw Stone.
Weight: 265g
Length: 101.7mm
Width: 49.7mm
Thickness at the thinnest point: 6.7mm
Thickness at the thickest point: 43.4mm
Our Raw stones are ideal for those who enjoy creating jewelry pieces from absolute scratch. Â This organic form also makes a fantastic addition to a rock collection. Â For the collector, raw stones offer the truest representation of each piece. Â Aside from cleaning and removing loose debris and surface inclusions, this is how the stone came straight from the ground.
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.
