Great lot of Pakistani Diopside running from an almost Deep Peridotish Green to a Chrome and Hunter Green in color with some cool Bicolor Combinations! This is really lovely material and cuts some magnificent stones. We have offered this in the past; however, we never saw it again in the market until our recent trip to the market. Most of these stones will cut eye-clean to slightly included finished stones at best; however, many inclusions mask up well and these stones cut with great face up appeal. I have seen people selling this material as Top Facet Grade, unfortunately this in reality is not Top Facet Grade as most pieces will not cut flawless stones though quite a few stones in the parcel are Top Facet Grade the parcel as a whole is not. Top material is RARELY produced in Pakistan and these are some of the cleanest stones we have ever come across. We estimate that approximately 60%+ of this material is a mixture of medium to high grade facet rough and the remainder has some excellent material for Cabbing and potentially additional Facet Rough. These are nice large chunky pieces with the average weight being over 7.5 carats!

1. There is a very limited amount of Diopside being produced in Pakistan. This is from a really old lot and production has really come to a stand still. The material is very close to Russian Chrome Diopside; however, it does not contain the Chromium for the most part and the color fluctuates a bit more than Russian. Some of the material also exhibits color banding or shifting.