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    The blue topaz from Scotland

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    Topaz Guide

    • Pure topaz is colorless and transparent but is usually tinted by impurities; typical topaz is wine red, yellow, pale gray, reddish-orange, or blue brown. It can also be white, pale green, blue, gold, pink (rare), reddish-yellow or opaque to transparent/translucent.
    • Orange topaz, also known as precious topaz, is the traditional November birthstone, the symbol of friendship, and the state gemstone of the US state of Utah.
    • Imperial topaz is yellow, pink (rare, if natural) or pink-orange. Brazilian Imperial Topaz can often have a bright yellow to deep golden brown hue, sometimes even violet. Many brown or pale topazes are treated to make them bright yellow, gold, pink or violet colored. Some imperial topaz stones can fade on exposure to sunlight for an extended period of time.
    • Blue topaz is the state gemstone of the US state of Texas. Naturally occurring blue topaz is quite rare. Typically, colorless, gray or pale yellow and blue material is heat treated and irradiated to produce a more desired darker blue.
    • Mystic topaz is colorless topaz which has been artificially coated giving it the desired rainbow effect.
    • Topaz is commonly associated with silicic igneous rocks of the granite and rhyolite type. It typically crystallizes in granitic pegmatites or in vapor cavities in rhyolite lava flows including those at Topaz Mountain in western Utah and Chivinar in South America. It can be found with fluorite and cassiterite in various areas including the Ural and Ilmen mountains of Russia, in Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Czech Republic, Germany, Norway, Pakistan, Italy, Sweden, Japan, Brazil, Mexico; Flinders Island, Australia; Nigeria and the United States.
    • Some clear topaz crystals from Brazilian pegmatites can reach boulder size and weigh hundreds of pounds. Crystals of this size may be seen in museum collections. The Topaz of Aurangzeb, observed by Jean Baptiste Tavernier weighed 157.75 carats.[10] The American Golden Topaz, a more recent gem, weighed a massive 22,892.5 carats.
    • Colorless and light-blue varieties of topaz are found in Precambrian granite in Mason County, Texas[11] within the Llano Uplift. There is no commercial mining of topaz in that area.

    For further reading and source facts about Topaz gemstones checkout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topaz

    Jewellery of Scotland

    With thanks to Jewellery of Scotland who kindly provided the fantastic graphics for this informative article. Jewellery of Scotland source and share the finest handmade Scottish jewellery to all corners of the globe. When they’re not hunting down rare bracelets, necklaces and rings from the Orkney Islands, the Jewellery of Scotland team love to connect with the many incredibly creative people who call Scotland home. Check out the Jewellery of Scotland blog for interviews with Scottish designers, passion-pieces on Scottish culture, heritage and fashion, and much more.

    Find them online at https://www.facebook.com/jewelleryofscotland  and their active on twitter account at https://twitter.com/jewelofscotland

     

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