Tanzania's Gift - Tanzanite

Names are the biggest giveaways. They give you a direct hint of their place of origin among other things. The biggest example of this is the rarest of the rare gemstone, Tanzanite. No prizes for guessing right that these magnificent gemstones come from the heart of Tanzania.

In fact Tanzania remains till date the largest and only source of Tanzanites, for these mystical deep blue stone with a hint of purple are found nowhere else in the world. The gemstone of the 20^th Century, Tanzanite was discovered in 1967 in Tanzania in East Africa. A stunning new entrant in the world of gemstones Tanzanite truly is Tanzania’s gift to the world.