I don't remember seeing an blue zircon emerald cut larger than 25 carats before I came across this beauty. A beautiful gemstone, blue zircon is making a comeback due to its color, clarity and sizes. It really makes beautiful jewelry. The color of this gem is simply perfect. A rich, deep water blue with hints of green. The culet is a bit off center, but the overall brilliance of the gemstone is exceptional because of the sharp radiant facet pattern on the pavillion. This size and shape are extremely rare in the gem trade.
GemRate Colored Gemstone Scoring System Was trademarked by AfricaGems.com was devised for a simple purpose, to give a potential gemstone buyer a snapshot of the quality of a colored gemstone based on an easily understood numeric score. Colored gemstones do not have the luxury of a standardized grading system like diamonds.
The GemRate system is based on the most important fundamental grading aspects of colored gemstones to determine value. At AfricaGems.com, the GemRate scoring systemis based on the evaluation of a gemstone by Marc Sarosi, an expert in the colored gemstone industry for 24 years. Marc has seen literally millions of gemstones and has graded hundreds of thousands of gemstones of all types. Marc's GemRate scores are impartial, fair and absolutely honest.