"Look,
here it is, the prophetic Russian stone! O crafty Siberian. It was always green
as hope and only toward evening was it suffused with blood. It was that way
from the beginning of the world, but it concealed itself for a long time, lay
hidden in the earth, and permitted itself to be found only on the day when Tsar
Alexander was declared of age, when a great sorcerer had come to Siberia to
find the stone, a magician."
Leskov Nikolai Semyonovich.
Alexandrite.1884
Salah
satu yang paling menarik permata ini , ia pertama kali ditemui di sepanjang
banjaran gunung Ural Rusia di mana zamrud sedang dilombong di awal 1830-an,. Based
color Alexandrite kebiasaannya hijau dan berubah kepada warna ungu. Ada juga
yang berubah warna kepada warna lain mengikut percent of color change.
"Alexandrites are, on the whole finer than the Uralian
emeralds, the columbine red colour seen in artificial light being especially
beautiful... Its colour by daylight was a fine sap-green with a trace of red,
while in candle-light it appeared a full columbine-red, scarcely
distinguishable from a purplish-red Siamese Spine."
Max Bauer
MINERAL: Chrysoberyl(an oxide with composition BeAl2O4)
EFFECT: Colour Change,
Chatoyancy(cat´s eye)
LOCALITIES: Russia, Sri Lanka, Andhra Pradesh(India),
Brazil, Burma, Madagascar, USA, Tanzania
Edwin Streeter wrote of alexandrite in "Precious Stones and Gems": "The
wonderful alexandrite is an emerald by day and an amethyst at night.”
HATI-HATI,BANYAK YANG SINTETIK ZAMAN SEKARANG.
