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Zircon

Zircon represents the December birthstone.  The legend of Zircon begins when Hyacinth a Greek youth was slain; the wild hyacinth flower was believed to have sprung from his spilled blood.  Since wild hyacinth in Greece are blue to blue violet, Pliny, the Roman scholar, compared Zircon to hyacinth.  The main sources of Zircon also comes in other colors such as brown, violet, red and colorless.  Some brown varieties of Zircon are heat treated to produce colorless and blue Zircons.



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