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.

Beryl

Chemical Formula Al2Be3(SiO3)6
Mohs Hardness 7.5 - 8.9
Density 2.72
Streak White
Luster Vitreous
Refractive Index 1.57 - 1.58
Color green, blue, yellow, white, pink, red
Gem Types Aquamarine
Bixbite
Emerald
Morganite
Heliodor
Goshenite

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.

Garnet

Chemical Formula X3Y2(SiO4)3 - Garnet Group, general formula
Mohs Hardness 5.5 - 7.5
Density 3.40 - 3.84
Refractive Index 1.70 - 1.88
Color green, orange, red
Gem Types Rhodolite, Hessonite, Spessartite, Demantoid, Tsavorite, Grossular, Color Change

Name Almandine Garnet

Chemical Formula Fe3Al2(SiO4)3
Mohs Hardness 7 - 7.5
Density 3.93 - 4.31
Refractive Index 1.76 - 1.82
Color brown, brownish red, red, black, black-red
Gem Types Garnet (red)

Name Andradite Garnet

Chemical Formula Ca3Fe2(SiO4)3
Mohs Hardness 6.5 - 7
Density 3.81 - 3.87
Refractive Index 1.85 - 1.90
Color yellow, green, brown, black
Gem Types Demantoid, Topazolite

Name Grossular Garnet

Chemical Formula Ca3Al2(SiO4)3
Mohs Hardness 7 - 7.5
Density 3.57 - 3.73
Refractive Index 1.70 - 1.86
Color light to dark green, light to dark yellow to reddish brown, rarely colorless
Gem Types Hessonite, Tsavorite, Leuco-garnet

Name Knorringite Garnet

Chemical Formula Mg3Cr2(SiO4)3
Mohs Hardness 6 - 7
Density 3.76
Refractive Index 1.80
Color blue-green, green
Gem Types

Name Pyrope Garnet

Chemical Formula Mg3Al2(SiO4)3
Mohs Hardness 7 - 7.5
Density 3.62 - 3.87
Refractive Index 1.71 - 1.74
Color black-red to red, red to purplish-red
Gem Types Rhodolite, Garnet (red)

Name Spessartine Garnet

Chemical Formula Mn3Al2(SiO4)3
Mohs Hardness 7 - 7.5
Density 4.12 - 4.20
Refractive Index 1.79 - 1.81
Color yellowish-orange to reddish-orange
Gem Types Spessartine

Chemical Formula Ca3Cr2(SiO4)3
Mohs Hardness 7 - 7.5
Density 3.4 - 3.8
Refractive Index 1.86
Color green, emerald-green, green-black
Gem Types Uvarovite

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 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.

Lodalite,

Lodalite is a type of included quartz crystal with inclusions of many possible colors and types, often having the look of gardens, landscapes, or underwater scenes. Thus, lodolite is often called garden quartz, landscape quartz, or scenic quartz. It's often used in meditation practices. Another metaphysical use of lodolite is to bring energies to effect manifestation of one's desires. Lodolite is also said to enhance communication with beings on the spiritual plane and heighten one's spiritual energies. It is used mystically to increase ESP and bring knowledge from your past lives. Lodolite is said to bring loving energies and energies of gentle strength. Mystically and in crystal healing, lodolite is purported to be an excellent healing stone bringing strong healing energies and energetic shifting so that healing will occur. Lodolite is associated primarily with the crown chakra.
An incredible amount of "activity" inside perfectly polished Quartz. This material is found only in one location in Minas Gerias, Brazil.

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, citrine, 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.

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.