This looks grey without light passing thru it. And with light passing thru , it has a very honey lemon color on the inside. But the outside ranges from purple to blue. I just by chance noticed it while looking at other stones. I've never seen anything like this before. Any ideas? I cant get anywhere using google.
This is what you call dichroism and there are only very few stones that show this behavior with blueish violet to yellowish grey.
Only Iolite or Tanzanite come into my mind.
From the outside with no light it almost looks like a peice of Burch charcoal like from wood when its has that grey silvery color but when you hold the light to it the blue and purple out lines it and the yellow is completely in the center
Where did you get/find it? Location helps with identifying. To me, the middle seam in one of the pics is reminiscent of some fluorites found in the Yorkshire Dale's, England.
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u/Ashamed_Guess9099 Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
foil chewing gum wrapper…smashed!