Zircon

The zircon is a natural gemstone not so well-known and often confused with cubic zirconium (synthetic material create to imitate diamond with different chemical composition).

It is colorless when it's pure, these are inclusions who give it colors : blue, red, brown, yellow, orange and rarely green.

The zircon is a new way to ride up time. In fact, zircon is one of the oldest material on Earth. The oldest specimens comes from Jack Hills in Australia.

Heated between 800° and 1000°C, the brown zircon can become bleu and the light blue can become bright blue.

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To know more about mineralogy of the zircon see mindat.org->