Big Deal Discovery Blue Tanzanite Ring

Imagine you live in Africa and you and your dog are out in the bush hunting. Your dog has advanced and is barking at something under a bush. You try to get your dog out. He continues to bark. You crawl in, thinking you’ll attach a strap to his collar and pull him out. You get under the bush and you see a gopher hole (or some African animal equivalent) and a lot of stones piled up around the opening. You can see they are crystals. You forget the barking dog and gather crystals. What you don’t realize at that moment, is you and your dog have just discovered one of the most significant new gem finds of the century – a gem that will come to be known as Tanzanite. A rare blue gem only found in this one place in the world, on the border of Tanzania and Kenya, never before seen and not found anywhere else. The ring is significant. The gem is an approximately 1.40 carat cushion-cut, longer than wide. The ring is simple, a plain shank surrounds. The gem is set in a wide rim of gold. Low-profile, solid, safe, secure. And according to the story, they didn’t catch the gopher creature.