Radical Rocks

Morganite Morganite is a beautiful lesser known Pink variety of Beryl Gem stone. Morganite is becoming a very popular gemstone used in engagement rings since about 2010.   Morganite was named as a Tribute to one of the most well know industrial revelation titans, he was also a High-profile banker, a philanthropist and millionaire at the turn of the 19 th century Mr J. P. Morgan. J.P. Morgan was also a huge gemstone collection in New York, USA in the early 20 th century. George Kunz, a gemologist for Tiffany’s, who was also the namesake of the gemstone “Kunzite” suggested morganite be named in honor of J. P. Morgan due to his gemological contributions to the American Museum of Natural History. It didn’t hurt that J. P. Morgan was also a big customer of Tiffany’s Morganite is somewhat rare and was not seen in the typical department store jewelry displays, until larger discovery’s and color treatments became readily available about 2010.   It remains little know to t...