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"Frosted" Peridot Crystal, Pyaung Gaung, Burma
 
SG0423
"Frosted" Peridot Crystal
$ 18.00
2 pcs   9.55 cts
Peridot matrix, Burma
 
GW1638
Peridot matrix
$ 44.00
1 pcs   340.00 g
Peridot Crystal, Pyaung Gaung, Mogok, Burma (Myanmar)
 
GW1428
Peridot Crystal
$ 55.00
1 pcs   8.00 cts
Mogok in Burma is known to produce the best quality for peridot with its two mines near the Barnardmyo villages: Pyaung Gaung and Zalat Thaung. Pakistan is also renowned for the exceptional quality of its stones but most of the peridots in the market nowadays are coming from San Carlos in Arizona, USA and China. Chinese and US peridots are plentiful but their color is much more yellowish green than their Burmese or Pakistani counterparts. Egypt is an important historic source.

The Myanmar, Pakistani and Egyptian gems are rarer and of better quality and thus quite valuable, approaching the per carat values of top gemstones. Peridot is the gem variety of peridotite, which is a very common mineral in the earth's crust. But Peridots are found in ultra basic rocks mostly in hard rock mines. Lilipad is a typical diagnostic inclusio found in many peridots: It shows a disk-like liquid surrounding a dark octahedral chromite crystal.

The Romans referred to "Peridot" as the "Evening Emerald" because the color did not darken at night and was visible under a lamplight. Some traders still call it the "Night Emerald" but this name should not be used now as peridot is less valuable than emerald. The most valuable color for peridot is pure green and so any yellow present decreases the global stone value.

The qualities of the peridot color also increase with the size of the stone and small size, top-color peridot is nearly impossible to find. As most Burmese peridot mines in Mogok are government owned, the Burmese government gem auctions in Yangon attract many peridot foreign dealers. A few fine peridots are found in the limitated Burmese private market.

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