RE: [Gajapati] Doubt on gemstone (Swee)

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Namaste Swee Ji & all,

 

With Swee Ji's permission I write what I know.

 

In world markets, it is a safe presumption to say that most of Citrine AND Topaz has undergone some sort of enhancement.

Generally heat treatment is done to Citrine to enhance its color or to convert off-color Brazilian amethyst into Citrine ( this is happening more and more since there is a lot of good color African Amethyst in the market). If the stone you are looking at has 0% inclusion/feather etc, then chances are it has been enhanced (primarily heated) . This method of enhancement is generally and widely accepted in the commercial trade of the gemstone although it is 100% unacceptable to use any of such stones for jyotish purposes.

Other than this, Enhanced yellow color Clear Quartzs is also being mixed with proportions of real (heated) Citrine primarily in large calibrated lots coming out of China being bought by Thai and Indian companies.

 

Now Topaz. Imperial or precious Topaz is, as Swee Ji pointed out, mined in Brazil only till date. It is primarily soft/dull yellow in color with a pinkish touch being highly desirable in the world markets. This too is always heated to get more pink in the stone.

Besides the precious Topaz, ALL OTHER TOPAZ (shades of blue topaz, pink topaz, rainbow topaz, mystic topaz, green topaz etc etc) is heated OR film-coated. There is absolutely no reason to believe if someone says contrary cause there is NO SUCH THING as a real BLUE/YELLOW/PINK/GREEN ETC ETC NATURAL TOPAZ !

 

Enhancement is a general phenomenon in almost all varieties of Quartz and Topaz family in today's commercial world markets. So please be very careful in where you choose to buy your gemstones . For this reason, I believe it is best to buy from references of highly authentic and esteemed authorities like Swee Ji and Sanjay Ji. One simple way to separate a Quartz from a Topaz is to feel the weights in your hand. Topaz is significantly heavier than a Quartz of comparable size.

 

Namaste;

Gaurav Jain

 

 

[Guest guest]

--- ranger909 <ranger909 wrote:

 

> Namaskar Shrimathi Swee,

> Just a clarification, as nowadays clean, natural yellow

sapphires (without heat treated) either difficult to get or very expensive.

> On your experience, in that case what would be

the upa ratna?

> 1). Precious Topaz

> 2). Topaz

> 3). Citrine

> and what would be the

ideal weight for upa ratna?

> Thank you for enlightening us that the ideal wt should

> be 2.46 ca. A lot of books Scared us like blue

sapphire should be 5 carats & coral should be 6 carats.

>

> Thank you

> Namaskar

> Ran

 

Jaya Jagannatha

 

Dear

Ran,

 

Namaste

 

I have

given quite an extensive reply wrt Topaz versus

Yellow Sapphire in a recent mail to two lists. In my experience, I have found

both Topaz and Citrine to be heated as a matter of course. Topaz in its natural

colour has a rather grey overtone, after treatment the yellow looks well

enhanced, but in the matter of using it as a remedial measure, the effects is not good.

Citrine:

I have also found that Brazilian material can be heated from an Amethyst

changing it to a Citrine! I am rather weary of such materials from there…………Because

of the perfect cleavage of the Citrine, the heated material tends to shatter

very easily.

The

Zambian material is all natural, but getting a yellowish one is rather on the

rare side too.

One

word of caution: Someone recently gave a " Yellow Citrine " and when I

checked it, it was actually colour treated Quartz, but not irradiated. I was

also told it was also certified by an Indian seller to be the genuine material!

Unless we are very sure whom we are dealing with, I'm afraid there are many cut

throats in the market.

My

policy is to go to a renowned gemstone supplier and one who can supply a world recognized

certificate (if you are spending a lot of money on the gemstone, it is worth

paying the extra for the certification).

On

Imperial Topaz (you termed it as precious Topaz), I would akin this to an

alternative for Hessonite for Rahu. Imperial Topaz is

also heated as a matter of course! And is a product particular only to Brazil (as far

as I know).

Why not

get spessartite instead? Of them, the exceptional one

in mandarin colour is recommended (Sanjay ji calls

this Goumuthra)?? The description of its colour from

GP.I.77.2 is it is as brilliant like the colour of honey, collyrium,

musk deer or fire and the plantain tree etc.

 

Except

for the initial statement on the size of a Diamond as 2.04 (correction) or the

acceptable range from 1.224 -1.65 carats, let's bear this in mind that the rays

given out by the diamond is +ve wavelength of 80,000

as compared to say 90,000 from the Corundum family. In this way, we can compare

this to Citrine that exudes +ve wavelengths of 57,000

and prescribe accordingly to make up for the shortfall :-) but my preferences

would go to the rather rare yellow Tourmaline (natural) as an Upa ratna.

One

thing I have been pondering over: That if such a fine Pearl is in your possession, the deity that

is stationed in it will certainly bless you; free from all evils etc. (Ref. GP

I.69.43)

 

Maybe

my sishya Gaurav Jain can contribute on this thread J.

 

Love,

 

Swee

 

 

 

Gajapati

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Re: [Gajapati] Doubt on gemstone (Swee)