Rhodonite
Rhodonite is an inexpensive pink gemstone. It often has impurities of black manganese... More
Rhodonite is an inexpensive pink gemstone. It
often has impurities of black manganese oxide dendrite veins running through it, creating interesting formations and providing a nice contrast. The name Rhodonite is derived from the term rhodos, which is Greek for "Rose colored". Hide
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Rose Quartz
Rose Quartz is the rosy pink variety of Quartz . Its color is usually soft, ranging f... More
Rose Quartz is the rosy pink
variety of Quartz. Its color is usually soft, ranging from very
light pink to medium pink in intensity. It is often hazy or turbid, which makes it lack good transparency. Rose Quartz is fairly common and found in many places throughout the world, and can occur in very large examples in nature. This allows exceedingly large gemstones to be cut from it. The relative abundance of Rose Quartz, and its frequent lack of full transparency, diminish its importance as a pink gemstone in relation to other pink gemstones such as and Topaz, Tourmaline, and Kunzite. Hide
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Ruby
Ruby is distinguished for its bright red color, being the most famed and fabled red g... More
Ruby is distinguished for its bright red color, being the most famed and fabled red gemstone. Beside for its bright color, it is a most desirable gem due to its hardness, durability, luster, and rarity. Transparent rubies of large sizes are even rarer than Diamonds. Ruby is the red variety of the mineral Corundum. Sapphire, the other gem
variety of Corundum, encompasses all colors of Corundum aside from red.
In essence, Ruby is a red Sapphire, since Ruby and Sapphire are
identical in all properties except for color. However, because of the special allure and historical significance, Ruby has always been classified as an individual gemstone, and is never identified as a form of Sapphire (though some purplish-red colors may straddle the line of being classified as either Ruby or Sapphire). Hide
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Rutilated Quartz
Rutilated Quartz is a transparent Quartz with golden yellow Rutile inclusion s that a... More
Rutilated Quartz is a transparent Quartz with golden yellow Rutile inclusions that are in hairlike growths. The Rutile inclusions range from thin, sparse, and parallel, to thick, dense, and crisscrossed, and everything in-between. Each Rutilated Quartz gemstone is unique in its pattern of Rutile inclusions. Hide
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Sapphire
Sapphire is the most precious and valuable blue gemstone. It is a very desirable gems... More
Sapphire is the most precious and valuable blue gemstone. It is a very desirable gemstone due to its excellent color, hardness, durability, and luster. In the gem trade, Sapphire without any color prefix refers to the blue variety of the mineral Corundum. However, the term Sapphire encompasses all other gem varieties and colors of Corundum as well, excluding Ruby, the red variety of Corundum, which has its own name since antiquity. Hide
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Scapolite
Scapolite is a common mineral, and its typical habit is in opaque and uninteresting f... More
Scapolite is a common mineral, and its typical habit is in opaque and uninteresting forms. However, several unique localities provide gemmy transparent forms of this mineral, which make a rare and pretty gem. However, despite its lovely colors, Scapolite has been limited from becoming a more mainstream gemstone due to its relatively low hardness. Hide
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Silver
Silver is an important precious metal , and has been used by ancient civilizations th... More
Silver is an important precious metal, and has been used by ancient civilizations throughout history as a second to Gold in importance and value. Like Gold, it has always been used as a monetary standard, and ancient silver ornaments and silverware dating back centuries have been found throughout the world. Hide
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Smoky Quartz
Smoky Quartz is the brown smoky variety of Quartz . It ranges in color from light gra... More
Smoky Quartz is the brown "smoky" variety of Quartz. It ranges in color from light grayish-brown to deep black.
Smoky Quartz can be opaque, but is almost always transparent to translucent, even when in its darkest color shade. Smoky Quartz is very common and was never an historically important gemstone. Only in very recent times has it become a popular gemstone. Hide
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Sodalite
Sodalite is a blue gemstone almost invariably veined with white streaks or markings. ... More
Sodalite is a blue gemstone almost invariably veined with white streaks or markings. Its ideal color is an intense blue, and it comes in all shades of blue from light blue to deep royal-blue, and from grayish-blue to violet. Different shades of blue will often be present in a single gemstone. Sodalite is an opaque gemstone, though it is slightly translucent on thin edges. Hide
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Spessartite
Spessartite is an orange to orange red form of the gemstone Garnet . The term Garnet ... More
Spessartite is an orange to orange-red form of the gemstone Garnet.
The term Garnet describes a group name for several closely related minerals that form important gemstones, and Spessartite is an individual member mineral of the Garnet group. Spessartite is synonymous with Spessartine, though in the gem trade the name Spessartite is more frequently used, and in the mineral trade the term Spessartine is more frequently used. The term Spessartite is often identified together with the Garnet name and called Spessartine Garnet in the trade. Hide
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