Moissanite Pendant
This pendant is a 0.35 carat brilliant cut Moissenite stone, hand set in sterling silver. It has a double loop and slides well on a chain (not included).
Moissanite is a nice alternative to diamonds, and it has a similar hardness and wears well in jewelry. Due to its ability to reflect light, this stone actually will sparkle more than a natural Diamond with what some call a “disco ball effect”.
In its natural form, moissanite remains very rare. Until the 1950s, no other source for moissanite other than as presolar grains in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites[9] had been encountered. Then, in 1958, moissanite was found in the upper mantle Green River Formation in Wyoming and, the following year, as inclusions in the ultramafic rockkimberlite from a diamond mine in Yakutia in the Russian Far East.Yet the existence of moissanite in nature was questioned as late as 1986 by the American geologist Charles Milton.
Today, moissanite for jewelry is all lab created which is also more eco-conscious.
This pendant is a 0.35 carat brilliant cut Moissenite stone, hand set in sterling silver. It has a double loop and slides well on a chain (not included).
Moissanite is a nice alternative to diamonds, and it has a similar hardness and wears well in jewelry. Due to its ability to reflect light, this stone actually will sparkle more than a natural Diamond with what some call a “disco ball effect”.
In its natural form, moissanite remains very rare. Until the 1950s, no other source for moissanite other than as presolar grains in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites[9] had been encountered. Then, in 1958, moissanite was found in the upper mantle Green River Formation in Wyoming and, the following year, as inclusions in the ultramafic rockkimberlite from a diamond mine in Yakutia in the Russian Far East.Yet the existence of moissanite in nature was questioned as late as 1986 by the American geologist Charles Milton.
Today, moissanite for jewelry is all lab created which is also more eco-conscious.