How can I or a jeweler tell if a blue tourmaline is genuine or a blue zircon?

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For exactly to tell the difference.

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cremedelacreme04 says:

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Tourmaline has some distinguishing features. It has three-sided prisms; no other common mineral has three sides. Prisms faces often have heavy vertical striations that produce a rounded triangular effect. Tourmaline is rarely perfectly euhedral.

Zircon is tetragonal.

July 1st, 2009 at 5:22 am

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