Yellow Orange Clinohumite Pair -8

5mm Yellow Orange Clinohumite VS stud earring pair. Clinohumite is a product of contact metamorphism and is commonly found as indistinct grains embedded in limestone. Its type occurrence is within the limestone ejecta of Mount Vesuvius near Naples, where Clinohumite was discovered in 1876. The aforementioned gem-quality occurrences of Pamir and Taymyr were discovered only recently: the former in the early 1980s, and the latter in 2000. These deposits are scarce and only sporadically mined, so Clinohumite remains one of the rarest gemstones with only a few thousand carats known to exist in private collections.