Optical properties make it bright and lustrous. Best known for its brilliant blue hues; also comes in warm autumnal yellows and reddish browns, as well as red and green hues.
Colourless zircon is known for its brilliance and flashes of multicoloured light, called fire. These zircon properties are close enough to the properties of diamond to account for centuries of confusion between the two gems.
Zircon found in Australia is the oldest mineral on earth: 4.4 billion years old.
Zircon sometimes contains traces of uranium, irradiating itself and changing its properties - this phenomenon is called metamictization.
Facts:
- Mohs Hardness: 6 to 7.5 (low to high)
- Mineral: Zircon
Optical properties make it bright and lustrous. Best known for its brilliant blue hues; also comes in warm autumnal yellows and reddish browns, as well as red and green hues.
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About Zircon
Optical properties make it bright and lustrous. Best known for its brilliant blue hues; also comes in warm autumnal yellows and reddish browns, as well as red and green hues.
Colourless zircon is known for its brilliance and flashes of multicoloured light, called fire. These zircon properties are close enough to the properties of diamond to account for centuries of confusion between the two gems.
Zircon found in Australia is the oldest mineral on earth: 4.4 billion years old.
Zircon sometimes contains traces of uranium, irradiating itself and changing its properties - this phenomenon is called metamictization.
Facts:
- Mohs Hardness: 6 to 7.5 (low to high)
- Mineral: Zircon
