Description
Serenite Sterling Silver Ring
Size N
Serenite is also known as oregon sunstone or plush diamond.
Serenite is so special because it contains copper inclusions (platelets) within the gem, which make it glow like a Paraiba Tourmaline, which also attributes its beauty to copper platelets. With so much sparkle being derived by the copper content, colourless pieces are very difficult on a visual inspection to tell apart from diamonds.
Serenite is ethically extracted from a remote mine located amongst breathtaking scenery in the centre of an ancient dried out lake in Oregon, USA. Serenite is a gemstone that literally glows with an incredible brilliance. In fact, back in the late 1840s, gemologists at Tiffany’s were said to have named the gemstone as an ‘Immature Diamond’. Without today’s modern technology and advanced research tools, they could tell the hardness was different to a Diamond, but they were unable to test its chemical composition. They therefore came to the conclusion that this incredibly bright and sparkling gemstone must be a Diamond that hadn’t finished growing. The Serenite mine is some 25 miles north of the nearest town of Plush and is located close to the original Tiffany’s mine. In fact, many many years ago Tiffany did market a small selection of incredibly clear Sunstone pieces from this area as ‘Plush Diamonds’.
I haven’t made the setting for this ring. I bought the setting before i was able to make my own and bought the gemstone separately for it. It has been handset and polished by myself though. I am telling you this, as some of these settings do have a stamp on the inside of the companies initials
The silver in my pieces come under the exemption weight, which is less than 7.78g, so therefore, they don’t require a hallmark. Anything over 7.78g, requires a hallmark by law.
