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Iolite Gemstone

Iolite is a mineral of the cordierite variety. The name iolite comes from ios, the Greek name for the color for violet. Iolite is known as “water sapphire” considering it’s deep blue sapphire color. Like sapphire and tanzanite, its fellow blue gemstones, iolite transmits light differently when viewed from different directions.By looking to the sky […]