![]() Lithium is also used in medicines, ceramics, mobile phones and automotive batteries. Lithium s used in medicines especially medicines of anxiety. The pegmatites that yield kunzite are also a source of lithium. Spodumene other colors are grey, green, yellow, pink, purple, blue. ![]() Yellow spodumene was discovered by American mineralogist, W.E.Hidden. Kunzite is closely related to hiddenite, the yellow-green member of the spodumene gemstone. Though first discovered in USA, Kunzite major supply right now is from Brazil, Afghanistan and Pakistan. There is needed extra care about Kunzite stone while displaying it in windows or as a use of gemstone jewelry. Because of this characteristics of Kunzite, it is given name as " evening gemstone". ![]() Kunzite also occurs in pegmatite’s, namely in Brazil, Mozambique, Madagascar and Afghanistan, sometimes as beautiful collectors' mineral specimens that come, by the way, quite handy to demonstrate pleochroism to students. He described this pink variety of spodumene in 1902 at the famous Pala pegmatite in California, USA. He was the illustrious American passionate mineralogist and gemologist. The term "Kunzite" is homage to George Frederick Kunz (1856 -1932). He is the first person who described the Kunzite stone in 1902. He was popular mineralogist and gemologist. Its name was given on name after George Frederick Kunz (1856 - 1932), an American mineralogist and the former vice president and buyer for Tiffany & Company. Spodumene is a lithium aluminum inosilicate. This is variety of Pyroxene mineral spodumene. Kunzite is the pink to light violet gemstone. In the photos, an etched kunzite gem crystal from Dara-i-Pech, Afghanistan, photo Joe Budd © The Arkenstone, Jean Schlumberger's Bird on a Rock brooch with an emerald-cut kunzite © Tiffany & Co History of Kunzite Kunzite is the trade name of of the lithium-rich, heat-sensitive, highly pleochroic pink variety of spodumene, a pyroxene species that was first described by Portuguese-Brazilian mineralogist José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva (1763-1838). Kunzite Gemstone is popular as so-called Evening Gemstone.
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