Rings and necklaces with natural Tanzanite
Tanzanite, the queen of blue gems
- Discovered in 1967 by a member of the Maasai tribe in the hills of northern Tanzania near Mount Kilimanjaro.
- Precious stone a thousand times rarer than diamonds, Tanzanite gems come only from a small strip of land just 4 km long.
- Its color can vary from a sky blue to a deep midnight blue with more or less intense shades of purple and flashes of purple
- Its name Tanzanite is due to Harry Platt, president at that time of the famous Tiffany jeweler who names it in honor of the place from which it is extracted
- Tanzanite is associated with good luck and prosperity, in the Maasai people it is given to new mothers or newborn children.