Difference between charoite and seraphinite

About difference between charoite and seraphinite.

1. Prices of raw material: seraphinite 5 - 20 $ for 1 kg, charoite 10$ - 100$ for 1kg

2. Connected with it: Charoite happens very different, seraphinite differs not so strongly.

3. If I buy raw seraphinite I approximately know, that will turn out from it. If I buy raw charoite it can be turn out nothing. Below purple cork can be only black aegirine. Or charoite will have low quality. Even for the skilled person it remains a lottery. I can buy charoite block with no one cutted side for 100$. If I ask to cut one side to look for quality. After cutting the price can be raised on 100$ else. Or drop to 15-20$

4. Charoite is much more difficult to process. It is much firmer.

5. Even charoite is cutted. After polishing it can reveal in all beauty, or it can become average quality

6. Seraphinite is ordered (yet). Quality charoite is hunted.



About defference between charoite and charoite.



Criteria of quality of charoite as it is at us.



It is 2 types of charoite: sorted and not sorted.

Sorted: Than more purple and than less extraneous inclusions (like tinaksite, aegirine, quartz ...) than it is better.

3 sort: More than 50% of inclusions, pale-violet, brown or more likely dark blue than violet color, many cracks. Collapses at processing. Nobody is necessary. We throw out it.

2 - 1 sort. 10 - 50% of inclusions, like tinaksite, quartz and aegirine. Good enough color. It approaches for large products,like spheres, vases, other stone carving. 10 - 20% of this charoite can be chosen for jewellery. 10 - 50$ for raw material.



Best, highest quality: not more than 10% of inclusions. The expressed purple violet color. And sites of crystal charoite that give game of light (iridiscent). Than more than better.



Not sorted charoite. Charoite that have not purple color or/and many inclusions and by these criteria can be considered 3 - 2 sort. But they are very beautiful.