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Beautiful Genuine Gemstone Jewelry Online
Unless you happen to be an expert gemologist, it can be very difficult to identify genuine gemstone jewelry these days. It is no longer a case of picking out the colored glass from the real stones, they now manufacture real gems in laboratories and even an expert can have a problem telling real from fake. Perhaps it does not really matter, you might say and that is certainly a point of view held by many.
A gemstone, like a diamond, has come out of the earth and is, if you like, a part of our planet. It has a value of its own. Stones like sapphires, rubies and emeralds come into the diamond class and even beat diamonds at their own game sometimes due to their scarcity mostly. But there are many, many more beautiful stones being dug out of far flung gem pits daily which can in time adorn your fingers.
The second one is that many people in the far flung corners of this planet make their living by digging and mining gemstones out of the rocks and other strata nature has endowed with them. Not like the diamond mines of South Africa, of course, but all over Sri Lanka and Madagascar, for example, there are gem pits. Perhaps those people are worthy of consideration.
Knowing the difference between a laboratory produced aquamarine and one from Brazil may not be too easy. Even experts have been fooled before now into thinking that a well cut zircon was a diamond. If you like it and the price is right go ahead, but remember that is it is simulated or synthetic it has no inherent value of its own.
There are just so many beautiful gems to be found on this wonderful planet. Many like garnets often come from Africa though India too is a source. Tourmalines too come from Africa and also Brazil. These stones come in almost all the colors of the rainbow and are often multi-colored. Lapis Lazuli is found primarily in the Hindu Kush inside Afghanistan. The stone is the most unbelievably vivid blue, so much so that you would probably think it was a fake on first sight. Smaller deposits are found scattered all over the world even in the US, Canada, Chile and Russia.
Red Spinel used to be taken for Ruby by genuine error as they are both found in the same locations and have a very similar look as they both get their lustrous redness from chromium. Spinel also comes in black. The beautiful topaz is best known in shades of yellow and brown though it can also be found in green, blue, red and even colorless forms.
Then there are onyx, citrine and turquoise. Onyx is a type of chalcedony, a kind of quartz. Citrine is also a type of quartz that has been in use for jewelry since ancient Greece. It is the birthstone for November. Turquoise is supposed to be derived from the French and means Turkish stone as that is where the copper aluminum phosphate mineral stones were first bought and brought to Europe way back in time.
Genuine gemstone jewelry is something to cherish. Like all jewelry you should learn how to clean it or take it back to your jeweler from time to time to keep it in pristine condition. A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
A gemstone, like a diamond, has come out of the earth and is, if you like, a part of our planet. It has a value of its own. Stones like sapphires, rubies and emeralds come into the diamond class and even beat diamonds at their own game sometimes due to their scarcity mostly. But there are many, many more beautiful stones being dug out of far flung gem pits daily which can in time adorn your fingers.
The second one is that many people in the far flung corners of this planet make their living by digging and mining gemstones out of the rocks and other strata nature has endowed with them. Not like the diamond mines of South Africa, of course, but all over Sri Lanka and Madagascar, for example, there are gem pits. Perhaps those people are worthy of consideration.
Knowing the difference between a laboratory produced aquamarine and one from Brazil may not be too easy. Even experts have been fooled before now into thinking that a well cut zircon was a diamond. If you like it and the price is right go ahead, but remember that is it is simulated or synthetic it has no inherent value of its own.
There are just so many beautiful gems to be found on this wonderful planet. Many like garnets often come from Africa though India too is a source. Tourmalines too come from Africa and also Brazil. These stones come in almost all the colors of the rainbow and are often multi-colored. Lapis Lazuli is found primarily in the Hindu Kush inside Afghanistan. The stone is the most unbelievably vivid blue, so much so that you would probably think it was a fake on first sight. Smaller deposits are found scattered all over the world even in the US, Canada, Chile and Russia.
Red Spinel used to be taken for Ruby by genuine error as they are both found in the same locations and have a very similar look as they both get their lustrous redness from chromium. Spinel also comes in black. The beautiful topaz is best known in shades of yellow and brown though it can also be found in green, blue, red and even colorless forms.
Then there are onyx, citrine and turquoise. Onyx is a type of chalcedony, a kind of quartz. Citrine is also a type of quartz that has been in use for jewelry since ancient Greece. It is the birthstone for November. Turquoise is supposed to be derived from the French and means Turkish stone as that is where the copper aluminum phosphate mineral stones were first bought and brought to Europe way back in time.
Genuine gemstone jewelry is something to cherish. Like all jewelry you should learn how to clean it or take it back to your jeweler from time to time to keep it in pristine condition. A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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