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Gemstone

 

Description & Properties

amazonite

 

Amazonite is an iridescent stone that ranges in color from green to blue-green. Most Amazonite is opaque, but rare crystals are transparent.

Healing Properties: Opens creativity, helps one to speak truth and communicate clearly.

amber

 

Amber is translucent fossilized tree resin (from conifers), a natural hydrocarbon that comes in many colors, including yellow, reddish, whitish, black, and blue.

Healing Properties: Calming stone, stress reliever. Mental clarity, mood balancer, joy, humor, confidence. Detoxification and protection from radiation.

amethyst

Amethyst is a form of the mineral quartz, and is a relatively common gemstone. Amethyst is usually purple, but can range in color from pale lavender to a very deep, reddish purple to a milky color to green. Deeper-colored amethysts are more highly valued.

Healing Properties: Spiritual awareness, dreaming, dispels nightmares, protection, known as the "sobriety stone", helps break bad habits

aquamarine

 

Aquamarine is a transparent, light blue or sea-green stone that is porous. Today, blue aquamarines are more highly valued, but this was not true in the past, when sea-green stones were prized.

Healing Properties: "Stone of courage". Intellectual acuteness, banishes fears, calms nerves, imparts strength and control.

blue-topaz

 

Topaz is a very hard gemstone that ranges in color from brown, to yellow to blue to pink. Pink topaz is usually created by irradiating common yellow topaz. Other colors are often created by heat-treating and/or irradiating topaz. Imperial topaz is golden orange-yellow topaz; it is the most valuable topaz.

carnelian

 

Carnelian (also called cornelian and carneole) is a reddish form of chalcedony (a type of quartz). This translucent stone has a waxy luster.

Healing Properties: Reproduction, sexuality, menstrual cramps, lungs, asthma, arthritis, creative visualization, stimulates emotions.

cats-eye

  Cat's eye is a yellow to green-yellow to gray-green stone with a bright, pupil-like slit that seems to move slightly as the stone is moved.

chalcedony

  Chalcedony is a family of minerals that are often milky to gray to bluish in color. Chalcedony includes agate, carnelian (waxy red), chalcedony (blue), chrysoprase (green), onyx (black and white), bloodstone, sard (brownish-red), jasper (hornstone), seftonite, and others.

citrine

  Citrine is a rare, yellow type of quartz, a semi-precious stone that ranges in color from pale yellow to orange to golden brown.

coral

  Coral is an animal that grows in colonies in the ocean. Coral ranges in color from pale pink (called angelskin coral) to orange to red to white to black. The most valued colors are deep red (called noble coral) and pink.

crystal

  Crystal is high-quality glass containing at least 10% lead oxide. Lead added to the melt produces very clear glass resembling rock crystal. Crystal is colored by adding various metallic oxides to the melt.

diamond

  Diamonds are precious, lustrous gemstones made of highly-compressed carbon. Diamonds are one of the hardest materials known. Colors of diamonds range from colorless, yellow, orange, brown, to almost black. Rarer colors are red, blue, green, and purple; these colors (called fancies) are quite valuable. Canary diamonds have a deep yellow color.

fluorite

  A soft mineral (calcium fluoride) that is fluorescent in ultraviolet light; chief source of fluorine. White or colorless, blue, blue-green, yellow, brownish-yellow, or red.

garnet

Garnets are any of a group of semi-precious silicate stones that range in color from red to green (garnets occur in all colors but blue). Red garnet is the birthstone for January.

iolite

  Iolite also known as water sapphire and lynx sapphire, is a transparent, violet-blue, light blue, or yellow-gray mineral.

jade

  Jade is a semi-precious stone that ranges in color from green to white to lilac to brown to almost black. Translucent jade is more highly valued than opaque jade.

kyanite

  Kyanite is a deep sapphire blue, green, gray, or white gemstone. The color is not always uniform; it can be blotchy or in streaks. The cystals are crystals are transparent to translucent.

labradorite

  Labradorite is a fairly abundant grayish mineral that has brilliant flashes of color (usually green, blue or red) after it is polished.. The crystals are transparent to translucent. There is a darker variety of labradorite (called "black moonstone") which has bluish inclusions.

lapis

Lapis lazuli, a beautiful royal to navy blue, is a rock composed of a mixture of several different minerals including lazurite, huaynite, sodalite, noselite, calcite and pyrite. Diopside, augite, mica and hornblende may also be present in small amounts.

moonstone

  Moonstone is a semi-translucent stone. It is usually whitish-blue, but can be colorless, yellow, orange, gray, or even reddish.

onyx

  Onyx is a semi-precious stone that is black and white, generally arranged in layers. Onyx is a species of chalcedony.

opalite

  A human-made opalized glass resin that is fused with metal to create an opalescent effect.

pearl

  Cultured pearls come in a wide range of colors. They should be relatively free of skin blemishes. The more perfectly round the shape the better. Pearl is the birthstone for the month of June. It is also the accepted anniversary gemstone for the third and 30th years of marriage.

peridot

  Peridot is a yellow-green semi-precious stone with an oily luster; peridot is a transparent, green form of olivine. Peridot exhibits double refraction; when you look through the stone, things appear double.

rock crystal

  Rock crystal is a transparent, crystalline mineral. Rock crystal is the purest form of quartz and a semi-precious stone.

quartz

  Quartz is a crystalline mineral that come in many forms, including amethyst, aventurine, citrin, opal, rock crystal, tiger's eye, rose quartz,and many others.

rose-quartz

Rose quartz is a form of quartz that ranges in color from pink to deep red.turquoise

topaz

  Topaz is a very hard gemstone that ranges in color from brown, to yellow to blue to pink. Pink topaz is usually created by irradiating common yellow topaz. Other colors are often created by heat-treating and/or irradiating topaz.

tourmaline

  Tourmaline is a gemstone that comes in many, many different colors; it also appears to have different colors depending on the angle at which it is seen. Tourmaline has the greatest color range of any gemstone - the lighter colors are more valuable than the darker colors. It ranges in color from pink to green to red to purple to blue-green to colorless to black.

Turquoise

  Turquoise is a non-translucent, porous semi-precious stone. Turquoise ranges in color from robin's egg blue to green. Over the years, oil from your skin is absorbed by the stone and it will change color slightly.

white-topaz

  Topaz is a very hard gemstone that ranges in color from brown, to yellow to blue to pink. Pink topaz is usually created by irradiating common yellow topaz. Other colors are often created by heat-treating and/or irradiating topaz.

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