Blue Topaz Jewelry

To receive a gift of Blue Topaz Jewelry is traditional to celebrate the fourth year of marriage.

Although Topaz can naturally occur blue most of the blue stones that you will come across in jewelers today has been subjected to irradiation treatment.

This method is used to turn colourless rough material into the lovely blues that are common place these days.

This is a perfectly safe and acceptable way of creating Blue Topaz for a ever demanding market for this lovely gemstone, however many stories of "hot" Topaz being released onto the market led to the authorities to demand that all irradiated gemstones should have a certificate of origin allowing more control of treated gems and also ensuring that they are free of harmful radiation.

If you have any concerns about your treated Topaz The Gemological Institute of America does provide this service on a individual basis.

London Blue and Swiss Blue Topaz are good examples of jewels created in this manner.

What this method does ensure is that there is a plentiful supply of blue gemstones on the market and prices of exotic blues have never been more affordable.

Photographer Edward Karaa

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If you are the owner of a home ultrasonic cleaner I strongly advise that it is not used to clean this gemstone, although having a hardness of 8 on the Moh scale it's perfect cleavage does carry the risk that an impact in the wrong place has been known to make the stone divide so please be careful, warm soapy water is a much better and safer alternative.

Next time you pop into a jewelers take a look at a Topaz ring, more often than not you will notice the stone in a protective setting guarding the girdle, because rings take more punishment than anything else of decoration that we wear, this element of safety is commonly used to guard this beautiful jewel's achilles heel.

Enjoy and wear your exotic Blue Topaz Jewelry with pride.

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