(1) Unlike most chatoyant malachite, this material is hard and doesn't fall apart when worked.(2) Cuts must be exactly parallel to the length of the fibers to get the full chatoyant effect.(3) The future availability of chatoyant demantoid in not known.(4) The chatoyance is so bright in the best examples it makes it very difficult to get good pictures.(5) The enamel has incredible luster and chatoyancy with an overall hue of dark metallic golden bronze.(6) Pieces showing an unusual crystal habit, distinctive pattern, or chatoyance , will have higher values.(7) Another bad effect from diffuse lighting is that chatoyance is greatly diminished.(8) The cause of its chatoyance can be embedded fibers of asbestos, as well as actinolite fibers.(9) They discovered that embedded within the rippling chatoyancy lies a record of the tectonic movements that shaped the Earth.(10) It is commonly fashioned into cabochons which is a cut that maximizes the chatoyancy of the mineral.(11) There are many stones which exhibit chatoyancy to various degrees.
