tsavorite

[ tsah-vuh-rahyt, sah- ]

noun

1. a green variety of grossularite, found in Kenya in 1975 and used as a gem.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tsavorite¹

Named after Tsavo National Park, Kenya, near where it was found; -ite ¹ ( -r- unexplained)

Example Sentences

The museum said the stone, which was found in 2017 and cut over three months by renowned gem cutter Victor Tuzlukov, was donated by Somewhere in the Rainbow, a private gem and jewelry collection, and by tsavorite mining executive Bruce Bridges, in honor of his late father.

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“So, this is the stone,” he said, holding it under the fluorescent lights — a lustrous, green 116-carat gem called a tsavorite.

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It is the largest precision-cut tsavorite in the world, the museum says.

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Bridges’s father, geologist Campbell Bridges, discovered tsavorite in East Africa in the 1960s — reportedly while fleeing from an angry buffalo — and brought it to prominence.

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The “lion,” roughly the size of a quarter, is giant by tsavorite standards, said Gabriela A. Farfan, a Smithsonian curator of gems and minerals.

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