Vesuvian - green collectible find

Vesuvian is rarely found as a raw material suitable for cutting, more often it is a cabochon-quality material. The color of Vesuvian is greenish-brown, less often yellowish-green and green, sometimes pink, purple, colorless, blue-green. Stones colored green with varying degrees of blue tint contain a structural impurity of chromium and are mined in most cases from the deposits of the Middle Urals. In Russia, finds of gem-quality Vesuvian are known from occurrences in Yakutia, Taimyr, the Middle Urals and Karelia. Jewelry and ornamental garnet-vesuvian jade (a metasomatic rock containing vesuvian in one amount or another, more often up to 25%) was at one time mined at the Munilkan deposit (Yakutia). Also, manifestations of similar material, but not forming large objects, are also known throughout the entire length of the Urals - from the polar to the South. In recent years, jewelry and ornamental material of a garnet-vesuvian rock of purple-pink color, reminiscent of the jade of the Munilkan deposit, but having less blockiness, has been received from Kazakhstan. Often the essentially vesuvian breed is called vesuvianite in commercial practice. But it should be remembered that a breed with such a name does not exist.