Gemstone Facts:

Named after the G Kunns who first described as gemstone Can confused with several pink stones. Especially amethyst, Beryl, Topaz, and colored glass. Kunzite is the pale pink to light-violet gem-quality variety of the pyroxene mineral spodumene, a lithium aluminum inosilicate. Kunzite was first discovered in Connecticut, USA, and was named after George Frederick Kunz (1856 - 1932), an American mineralogist and the former vice president and buyer for Tiffany & Company. Kunz was a legendary New York jeweler and colored stone specialist, and he was the first to comprehensively describe the stone in 1902. Although it was first discovered in the USA, most of the current supply of kunzite is found in Afghanistan and Pakistan