Starlight zircon is the trade name for the blue variety of zircon.
Specific Gravity: 4.60 - 4.70
The gem quality zircons range in color from yellow, brown, orange, red, violet, blue, to green.
The starlight zircon is created through heating brown zircon varieties. In nature the gray-brown and red-brown zircons are most abundant.
Starlight zircon is found in Myanmar, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Brazil, Korea, Vietnam, to name a few.
Zircon is neither a zodiac gem, nor an anniversary stone.
This information was primarily taken from
www.seemall.com/gems/ZIRCON.html
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