Icy Jewels

Although Blue Topaz generally takes the spotlight as the birthstone for December, we like to focus our attention on a more elusive December gemstone, Blue Zircon.

Many people remain unaware that this magical gemstone exists, as it is often confused with the man-made stone, cubic zirconia. Zircon is a naturally occurring gemstone mined from the earth that comes in a wonderful array of colors. Because of its popularity amongst collectors and informed buyers, red zircon can be very expensive, but blue zircon tends to be a more affordable counterpart.

Because it is doubly refractive, Zircon has a lot of fire and flash of color, meaning you will see double the facets and double the sparkle! It is also not as prone to inclusions as other gemstones, so the clarity of Zircon is usually excellent. Another interesting fact about zircon is that it sometimes contains small amounts of uranium, causing the gem material to irradiate itself and change its own chemical properties. How cool is that?!

And last but not least, Zircon has a hardness on the MOHS scale of between 6 and 7.5 making this gem friendly to wear in a ring, and really well suited for earrings and pendants. We love Blue Zircon and we hope you will find this gemstone as wonderful and interesting as we do. It is the perfect gemstone for the month of December with it’s deep glacier blue color!