Gemstone Chart |
Natural Kyanite Kyanite is a calming stone. It helps to quiet the mind, dissolving emotional, mental, or spiritual confusion, and letting go of anxiety. Color: Blue, Greenish Blue. Categories: semi-precious stone Chemical Composition: AL2SIO5 Crystal Group: Triclinic Refractive Index: 1.716 每 1.731 Hardness: 4.5 每 7.0 Density: 3.56 每 3.68 Occurrence: Kenya, Nepal, India, Burma,U.S.A.
| Natural Lapis Lazurite is a popular but generally expensive mineral. Well-formed, deep blue crystals are rare and valuable. Lapis lazuli is a gemstone of the kind that might have come straight out of the Arabian Nights: a deep blue with golden inclusions of pyrites which shimmer like little stars. Color: Blue, greenish-blue, violet blue Categories: semi-precious stone Chemical Composition: A complex aggregate Crystal Group: Not applicable Refractive Index: 1.5 Hardness: 5.5 Density: 2.7-2.9 Occurrence: Afganistan, Pakistan, Chile, Russia, U.S.A., Angola, Burma
| 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 每 1.526 Hardness: 6 每 6.50 Density: 2.55 每 2.57 Occurrence: Sri Lanka, India, Madagascar, Burma, Tanzania, U.S.A.
| Natural Opal Opal is the most colorful of all gems. It is a form of silica chemically similar to quartz, but more like glass and containing a variable amount of water within the mineral structure. Its splendid play of color is unsurpassed, and fine examples can be more valuable than diamond. Precious opals (black and white) are cut and polished into cabochons and used in all forms of jewelry. Color: White, green, blue, black, red, orange, violet, pink, grey, yellow. Categories: precious stone Chemical Composition: SIO2nH2O Crystal Group: Amorphous Refractive Index: 1.44-1.46 Hardness: 5.5 - 6.0 Density: 2.65 - 3.00 Occurrence: Czechoslovakia, Mexico, Honduras, Australia, Brazil, Tanzania.
| Natural Sapphire Sapphire is a gemstone variety of the mineral corundum,Blue is the main colour of the sapphire. Its beauty, its magnificent colours, its transparency, but also its constancy and durability are qualities associated with this gemstone by gemstone lovers and specialists alike.Fancy sapphires are pure individualism and are just made for lovers of individualistic coloured stone jewellery. They are currently available in a positively enchanting variety of designs - as ring stones, necklace pendants or ear jewellery. Color: blue, bluish purple, bluish violet, greenish yellow, orangy yellow, purple, red, reddish orange, red-orange or orange-red, reddish purple, red-purple or purple-red, slightly purplish red, violet, violetish blue, yellow, yellowish orange, pink Categories: precious stone Chemical Composition: AL22O3 Crystal Group: Hexagonal Refractive Index: 1.759-1.778 Hardness: 9 Density: 4 Occurrence: Sri Lanka, Burma, India, Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar, Thailand, U.S.A., China
| 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
| Natural Sillimanite Sillimanite is an alumino-silicate mineral with the chemical formula Al2SiO5. Sillimanite is a very rare trimorph and it has a common variety called fibrolite. Color: violet blue, grey green, colorless, brown, green, Categories: semi-precious stone Chemical Composition: Al2OSiO4 Crystal Group: Orthorhombic Refractive Index: 1.658 - 1.678 Hardness: 6 - 7.5 Density: 3.25 Occurrence: France, Madagascar, U.S.A., Sri Lanka, Burma. Kenya
| Natural Spinel Spinel is the magnesium aluminium member of the larger spinel group of minerals. It has the formula MgAl2O4.Pure spinel is white, but impurities give it a wide range of colors.Almost all colors are used in jewelry, but the most valuable and popular color is the deep red. Spinel is cut into gems for use as jewelry. The deep-red variety, known as ruby spinel, is the most prized form. Color: orange, pink, black, blue, lavender, mauve, greenish blue, and vivid red Categories: semi-precious stone Chemical Composition: MgAl2O4 Crystal Group: Cubic Refractive Index: 1.718 (-.006,+.044) Hardness: 8 Density: 3.60 (-.03, +.30) Occurrence: Mogok, Burma; Sri Lanka; Amboseli district, Kenya; Jemaa district, Nigeria; Matombo, Umba, and Tunduru Tanzania; Hunza, Pakistan; Pamir range, Tajikstan; Luc Yen, Vietnam; Madagascar; Australia; Sweden; Brazil.
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