"Nickel Topaz" - another stupid name to confuse buyers

[Squeaky]

Tonight, one of the TV channels is hawking "Ceylon Nickel Topaz".  I'd never heard of it so TRIED to look it up....it doesn't exist under that name.

Anyone know what this 'Ceylon nickel topaz" is?  Looks like London Blue topaz to me...

[amguy]

http://www.pricescope.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=132194

[Jamey S.]

Lovely, more bs!!!

[carat-top]

I really don't like topaz because of all the "cheapening" surrounding it. It is not right to do to a thing. Topaz used to be pretty cool in my book and now I would not line my driveway with it.

[amguy]

well..saw that PS thread when I was loking up nikel topaz..lol..so i found the ebay seller the person was referring to and posted that stone picture..well emailed thwem asking for a lab report or how they know it's a nickel topaz..here is what i got
"HELLO AND THANK YOU FOR LOOKING AT MY EBAY STORE. I WISH I DID HAVE THE LAB REPORTS FROM THESE PIECES, I HAVE ONLY A COUPLE PIECES LEFT OF THIS MATERIAL, I HAVE SOLD QUITE A FEW OF THEM AND HAVE ONLY HAD GOOD FEEDBACK FROM THEM, I EVEN GAVE ONE TO OUR LOCAL GRADUATE SCHOOL AND THEY HAVE IT IN THEIR DISPLAY. IF I CAN FIND ANY INFO ON THEM I WILL LET YOU KNOW, I MEAN FROM THE GENTLEMAN I PURCHASED THEM FROM. THANKS AGAIN AND IM SORRY I COULDNT HELP ANY BETTER THAN THAT.
HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK.
JAMIE

I emailed Ed bristol..if anyone knows about topaz coming from sri lanka with "nickel" as the coloring agent i figured ghe would

[Jamey S.]

Ed should know if there is. Be interesting to hear if this is the case or not.

[Chrono]

That’s pretty interesting; I’ve never heard of such a thing but it sounds like one of those marketing tactics to make the stone sound better that it is.  You know, from the initial gold content of tourmaline, then copper and who knows what next.  Is the vendor implying that the nickel is the colouring agent?  He doesn’t sound like he knows anything about it at all.

[tourmaline_lover]

Wow, it's on display at the school?  Next thing you know, it will be on display next to the Crown jewels in London  :

Is the nickel just a name to describe the color (grey) or the chromophore?  I love all the "titanium spinel" I've seen on ebay, cough cough.

[Jim A.]

I'm thinking it has to do with the color - one of my collectors just sent me two large pieces that he "just got a great deal" on to cut. I sent it back - too many cracks, but it looked like washed out crystal ends to me.

[Squeaky]

.......... I EVEN GAVE ONE TO OUR LOCAL GRADUATE SCHOOL AND THEY HAVE IT IN THEIR DISPLAY. ............

....the beauty school....[[ angelic look ]]

[Jim A.]

LOL!

[Astynax]

Yes, it is new and exciting! It actually is a color-change stone, and the Nickel gives it a nice green cc when exposed to certain cosmic radiation. Be the life of the party the next time a nearby star goes supernova! Amazing lustrous.

Nobody knows where this is found except one little village in eastern Yemen, near Tibet. The father of the villiage named Albert Kaida gets it from the mountain, which is sacred and only he is allowed to travel there.

The experts were unsure what it is until our lab tells us that it is a unique combination of topaz and tsavorite. It sits right on the border between Ca₃Al₂Si₃O₁₂ and Al₂SiO₄(F,OH)₂, so you can see it is not much different as they both share Al. It is going to be named tsavopaz by the gem community as under consideration soon. You can be first to have this all natural unheated stone only from us, because Al sold us all of the stones he had gathered before he exploded the mine and hid all trace of it. Just look at this untouched, unheated photo showing the wonderful color change:

This stone is now being collected by the British Museum, the Smithsonian, Snooki Polizzi, and other important collectors. There are so very few left, and these natural, unheated amazing finds will soon be disappeared forever into the vaults of the rich movie stars.

[Squeaky]

Asty - you're BAD too....we're gonna have to send you and Jim to the corner...while we all laugh til our sides hurt...

[Jamey S.]

OMG Asty!!!! Where do you come up with this stuff!!!?? You always crack me up!

[Astynax]

I should have mentioned that in different light it also can display a noticeable change of shape, since it is another big feature. There have been very few CS gems discovered, n'est-ce pas?