17/05/2026
I can‘t stop playing around with tanzanites. What you see here is called pleochroism: the mineral has different colors along the different crystallographic axes, made visible by rotating in in front of a computer screen (polarized light source). Typical colors are blue, violet, yellow, but also pink, green and colorless is possible. No other mineral displays this phenomenon so well pronounced and this, among other things, makes tanzanite (or zoisite as the mineral species is called) one of my all time favorites.