Gemstone Chart |
Natural Moonstone The most common moonstone is of the mineral adularia.It is an opaque stone, a simi-clear white, kind of the color of watered down milk.Moonstone Jewellery uses the gemstone moonstone as its main stone. Color: white, blueish white. Categories: semi-precious stone Chemical Composition: KalSI3O8 Crystal Group: Monoclinic Refractive Index: 1.518 ¨C 1.526 Hardness: 6 ¨C 6.50 Density: 2.55 ¨C 2.57 Occurrence: Sri Lanka, India, Madagascar, Burma, Tanzania, U.S.A.
| Natural Sapphirine Sapphirine is a rare mineral, a silicate of magnesium and aluminium.Though Sapphirine clearly falls into the "rare stone" category, it is a relatively durable stone with a Moh's hardness of 7.5. Sapphirine's very distinctive appearance along with their somewhat unusual durability have made them fairly popular with collectors. Color: Pale blue, bluish gray, greenish gray, green, purplish pink Categories: semi-precious stone Crystal Group: Monoclinic Refractive Index: 1.714-1.723 Hardness: 7.5 Density: 3.4-3.5 Occurrence: U.S.A., U.K., Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Japan, South Africa, Greenland, Madagascar, Italy, Sri Lanka
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