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The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Lostchild(m): 11:49pm On May 21, 2023
1. Agate Gemstone
Agate is the banded variety of chalcedony, with a wide variety of colors. Agates are primarily formed within volcanic and metamorphic rocks. The ornamental use of agate was common in Ancient Greece, in assorted jewelry

How much is agate stone worth?
Agate pricing by unit of measurement. Price; a carat of Agate is $0.03 to $240

Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Lostchild(m): 11:49pm On May 21, 2023
2. Amethyst Gemstone
Amethyst is crystalline quartz in colors ranging from pale lilac to deep reddish purple. The February birthstone makes a fine, durable gemstone for all. It is classified as a semi precious stone, but can also come in crystal formation

What is amethyst worth?
Amethyst can be sold between $20 to $50 per carat. The price of amethyst can range anywhere between $20 to $50 per carat, depending on various factors. It's important to note that the color is the most important feature that greatly influences the price of this gem

Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Lostchild(m): 11:49pm On May 21, 2023
3. Beryl Gemstone
Beryl is a mineral, a gemstone composed of beryllium aluminium silicate with the chemical formula.

Green Beryl is a type of gemstone that has a lighter shade and, in some cases, an emerald-like appearance. Emeralds are a more intense green, but they can contain more yellow or brown undertones than the purer blue and purple shades found in Green Beryl gems. If you’re looking for a beautiful jewel with many different colours to choose from then, Beryl might be what your eye is searching for!

There Are Different Types Of Beryl.
Aquamarine Beryl. (photo 1)
Heliodor Crystal. (photo 2)
Green Beryl. (photo 3)
Morganite Beryl. (photo 4)
Red Beryl. (photo 5)

Beryl can be up to several meters in size, but terminated crystals are relatively rare. Beryl is said to be first recognized as a powerful stone in ancient Mesopotamia, where it was believed to strengthen belief in the gods.

How Much Is Beryl Worth?
Red beryl is estimated to be 1000 times more valuable than gold. Fine, gem quality crystals that are over 1 carat can sell for as much as $20,000

Where Can Beryl Be Found?
The common variety of Beryl is found worldwide, but the primary producers of Beryl are as follows:

Brazil
India
Madagascar
Mozambique
Pakistan
Russia
USA
Zambia
Zimbabwe

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4. Carnelian Gemstone
Carnelian is a brownish red mineral commonly used as a semi precious gemstone. Similar to carnelian is sard, which is generally harder and darker. Both carnelian and sard are varieties of the silica mineral chalcedony colored by impurities of iron oxide.

The carnelian stone is a member of the chalcedony family, a type of silica mineral quartz. Other well-known minerals in this group include the onyx, agate, sard, and jasper

Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Littlechild(m): 11:50pm On May 21, 2023
5. Chalcedony Gemstone.
Chalcedony is a cryptocrystalline form of silica, composed of very fine intergrowths of quartz and moganite. These are both silica minerals, but they differ in that quartz has a trigonal crystal structure, while moganite is monoclinic.

Chalcedony is a form of quartz and a member of the oxide mineral class. Blue chalcedony, green chalcedony, agate, bloodstone, and tiger’s eye are just a few varieties.

While chalcedony is generally affordable, the highest quality of blue chalcedony has a price of upwards of $100 per carat. Chalcedony has many religious and spiritual connections and implied healing properties.

Where do you find chalcedony?
Chalcedony can be found in weathering volcanic rocks, but also in sedimentary ones, often together with agate. In igneous or metamorphic rocks chalcedony is very rare and only forms veins in cracks that have been percolated by warm rising silica-rich

What is the most expensive chalcedony stone?
Gem silica is the most valuable variety of chalcedony, with quality cut gemstones selling for over $100 per carat.

Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Lostchild(m): 11:55pm On May 21, 2023
6. Coral Gemstone
Corals are classified as “organic gemstones,” with other main gems being pearls and amber. Like pearls made of nacre, coral is from the carbonate secretions which form the structure of these coral polyps, forming hard corals of a stiff limestone skeleton.

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How much is coral stone worth?

Red coral's cost is determined by its origin, color, shape, and general clarity. Red coral typically costs between $3 to $145 per carat.

Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Lostchild(m): 11:56pm On May 21, 2023
7 Diamond Gemstone
Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Another solid form of carbon known as graphite is the chemically stable form of carbon at room temperature and pressure, but diamond is metastable and converts to it at a negligible rate under those conditions.

Diamond has the highest hardness and thermal conductivity of material, properties that are used in major industrial applications such as cutting and polishing tools.

How much is Diamond Worth?
For example, the cost of a one carat diamond can range from just $1,500 to more than $16,000 for an extremely well-cut, high-quality diamond, while a two carat diamond could cost as little as $6,000 or as much as $80,000 based on its shape, cut, clarity and color grades

Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Lostchild(m): 11:56pm On May 21, 2023
8. Emerald Gemstone
Emerald is a gemstone and a variety of the mineral beryl colored green by trace amounts of chromium or sometimes vanadium.

Among the 'big four' gemstones, emeralds are the second most expensive at an average price of $169 per carat, but quality varies significantly. It can cost as little as $200 to buy a carat of low-grade emerald, while it can cost as much as $18,000 to buy a carat of a high-quality gem5.

But in reality, both jewels are equally valuable. While emeralds are rarer, diamonds are more commonly purchased than emeralds. The quality of an emerald varies greatly; a high-quality will shine and sparkle. Both diamonds and emeralds are excellent gemstones.

Which country to buy emeralds?
Colombia, located in northern South America, is the country that mines and produces the most emeralds for the global market, as well as the most desirable. It is estimated that Colombia accounts for 70–90% of the world's emerald market.

Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Littlechild(m): 11:57pm On May 21, 2023
9. Gold Gemstones
Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from Latin aurum 'gold') and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher–atomic-number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal in pure form. Chemically, gold is a transition metal and a group 11 element. It is one of the least reactive chemical elements and is solid under standard conditions.

How much is gold worth now?
The spot price of gold, i.e., its trading price, is $1,995.40 per ounce, as of May 2, 2023

Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Littlechild(m): 11:57pm On May 21, 2023
10. Jasper Gemstone
Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral phases, is an opaque, impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color; and rarely blue. The common red color is du.

Jasper is a granular, opaque variety of chalcedony (agate also belongs to this family) which is a quartz (SiO2) mineral. However, jasper, in addition to or silica, contains an unusually large amount of impurities, mainly iron oxide. It is fine-grained and often strongly marked with orbicular or striped patterns.

Red jasper is the most popular gemstone. Yellow, green, and brown colors also exist. These colors may be patchy in nature, several SiO2 of them maybe present in the same stone, and they may fade into each other. Iron combinations is the coloring agent for jasper gemstones.

How Much Is Jasper Worth
Jasper is worth between $1.5 and $5 per carat. However, there are a number of factors that go into determining what the actual value is of any give jasper specimen.

Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Littlechild(m): 11:58pm On May 21, 2023
11. Sard Onyx Gemstones
Onyx primarily refers to the parallel banded variety of chalcedony, a silicate mineral. Agate and onyx are both varieties of layered chalcedony that differ only in the form of the bands: agate has curved bands and onyx has parallel bands. The colors of its bands range from black to almost every color. Commonly, specimens of onyx contain bands of black and/or white.[3] Onyx, as a descriptive term, has also been applied to parallel banded

Onyx primarily refers to the parallel banded variety of chalcedony, a silicate mineral.

How much is onyx worth?
Onyx prices for good quality stones typically range from $1 to $500 per carat. However, rare gems may fetch more outstanding prices. The price of onyx can vary greatly depending on several factors, such as color, clarity, pattern, size, cut, polish, treatment, and provenance

Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Littlechild(m): 8:26am On May 22, 2023
12. Sapphire Gemstones
Sapphire is a precious gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum, consisting of aluminium oxide with trace amounts of elements such as iron, titanium, chromium, vanadium, or magnesium. The name sapphire is derived via the Latin "sapphirus" from the Greek "sappheiros",

How Much Is Sapphire Worth?

Sapphires range from $25 per carat to more than $11,000 per carat; the most expensive one ever sold came in at $135,000 per carat. The price of a sapphire is determined based on its quality, which means that a large, low-quality sapphire is much cheaper than a small but very high-quality sapphire

Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Littlechild(m): 8:27am On May 22, 2023
13. Topaz Gemstone
Topaz is a silicate mineral of aluminium and fluorine with the chemical formula. It is used as a gemstone in jewelry and other adornments. Common topaz in its natural state is colorless, though trace element impurities can make it pale blue or golden brown to yellow orange

How Much Is Topaz Cost?
Natural low-rarity Topaz can start as low as $8 per carat, with the rarest types being as expensive as $3,000 per carat. Topaz prices are largely dependent on the gemstone's natural color, carat, and clarity. Why is Topaz so cheap? The Topaz stone is very abundant in nature.

Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Lostchild(m): 10:33pm On May 27, 2023
14. Turquoise Gemstone
Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that is a hydrous phosphate of copper and aluminium, with the chemical formula. It is rare and valuable in finer grades and has been prized as a gemstone for millennia due to its unique hue.

How Much Is Turquoise Worth?
The highest quality turquoise (clear color, low porosity, no matrix) ranges from $1,500 to $25,000 per gram. To put this into perspective, gold is roughly $60 per gram. Blue Lander spiderweb turquoise also falls under this category. Blue Lander was a turquoise mine located in Nevada.

Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Lostchild(m): 10:33pm On May 27, 2023
15. Rubies Gemstone
A ruby is a rare pinkish red to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide). Ruby is one of the most popular traditional jewelry gems and is very durable. Other varieties of gem-quality corun

In fact, the only other variety of corundum is sapphire. Sapphires and rubies are ample and abundant, but they naturally have notoriety since they’re from a rare and durable mineral class.

What makes ruby even more remarkable is that it belongs to the elite cardinal gem family. Cardinal gems comprise five traditionally precious gemstones: diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, amethysts, and of course, rubies.

When it comes to precious gemstones, nothing beats the classic ruby! This royal red jewel is treasured worldwide.

What Is The Cost Of Rubies?
Like any other gemstone, the cost of a ruby can vary depending on the quality and carat weight. Note that carat weight is the unit of measurement that most gemstones are weighted by (1 carat = 0.2 grams). Rubies can run as little as $1 a carat to $100,000+ a carat, depending on the 4Cs. One of the most expensive rubies ever sold is the Sunrise Ruby, selling for over a million dollars a carat at 25 carats.

Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Lostchild(m): 10:34pm On May 27, 2023
16. Garnets Gemstone
Garnets are opaque, transparent to translucent minerals that can be found as individual crystals, pebbles, or clumps of inter-grown crystals. Garnets are most commonly found with reddish shades, but can be, orange, yellow, green, purple, brown, blue, black, pink, and colourless

What Is The Cost Of Garnets?
Garnets vary depending on the quality. A 1-carat garnet with inclusions could cost around $500 while a cleaner garnet with a more rare color could cost between $2,000 and $7,000 per carat. More rare garnets, like demantoid and tsavorite, will cost more.

Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Lostchild(m): 10:34pm On May 27, 2023
17. Tourmaline Gemstone
Tourmaline is a crystalline silicate mineral group in which boron is compounded with elements such as aluminium, iron, magnesium, sodium, lithium, or potassium. This gemstone comes in a wide variety of colors. The name is derived from the Sinhalese tōramalli, which refers to the carnelian gemstones

Origin
Brazil is one of the world’s main sources of tourmaline. Others include Afghanistan, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, the United States and Zambia.

What Is The Cost Of Tourmaline Gemstone?.Large and clean specimens with a beautiful color change on the average on the world stone market worth $100-400 per carat. The cost of the Paraiba, depending on the purity and color saturation is in the range of $1500-30000 per carat

Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Littlechild(m): 10:35pm On May 27, 2023
18. Jeremejevite Gemstone
Jeremejevite is an aluminium borate mineral with variable fluoride and hydroxide ions. It is considered as one of the rarest, thus one of the most expensive stones. For nearly a century, it was considered as one of the rarest gemstones in the world.

How Much Is Jeremejevite Worth?
Jeremejevite – $2,000 per carat. Jeremejevite is a rare aluminium borate mineral with variable fluoride and hydroxide ions.

Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Littlechild(m): 10:35pm On May 27, 2023
19. Moonstone Gemstone
PMoonstone is part of the mineral family of feldspars. It's an opalescent stone that can be found in colorless form as well as peach, pink, green, gray, yellow, brown, and blue. The play of light seen in Moonstone is called adularescence, and its clarity ranges from transparent to opaque.

How expensive is a moonstone?
Moonstone pricing by unit of measurement
A carat of Moonstone $0.08 – $150
A gram of Moonstone $0.40 – $750
An ounce of Moonstone $11 – $21,262
A kilogram of Moonstone $400

Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Littlechild(m): 10:35pm On May 27, 2023
20. Apatite Gemstone
Chatoyant stones are known as cat's-eye apatite, transparent green stones are known as the apatite group consists of fluorapatite, chlorapatite, and hydroxylapatite. Most gemstones are a combination of all three members of the series.

How Much Is Apatite Stone Worth?

The price of apatite ranges from about $75 to $200 per carat. However, purple apatite from Maine has an average price of $250 per carat.

Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Littlechild(m): 10:36pm On May 27, 2023
21. Opal Gemstone
Opal is the national gemstone of Australia. It is a hydrated amorphous form of silica (SiO2·nH2O); its water content may range from 3 to 21% by weight, but is usually between 6 and 10%. Due to its amorphous property, it is classified as a mineraloid, unlike crystalline forms of silica, which are considered minerals.

Australia produces the world’s largest variety of opals. Opals can also be purchased from Ethiopia, Mexico and Honduras which all have their own colour and pattern attributes. No other stone can match opals. The uniqueness of owning a stone that no one else owns is the advantage of opals.

How Much Is Real Opal Worth?
Black opal is the most prized type of opal and may earn prices over $10,000 USD a carat. Boulder opals also have a dark body tone but are not quite as valuable, while white opals have a light body tone and are generally the least valuable form of opal

Why Is Opal So Expensive?
The rarity of the opal is determined by: Brightness - brightest is best. Colour - purple is the most common colour, then followed by blues and greens. Orange and red are much rarer, hence they are the most expensive.

Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Littlechild(m): 10:36pm On May 27, 2023
22. Larimar - Pectolite Gemstone
Larimar is a rare blue variety of Pectolite found only in the Dominican Republic, which is located in the Caribbean. Only one location exists for this rare blue gemstone, and that is in the southwest corner of the country in the mountains of Baharona. In general, Larimar’s color varies from white, light blue, green-blue to deep blue, and occasionally Hematite Dendrites, Calcite and Natrolite inclusions occur. While Pectolite in general is not a rare occurrence, none have the unique blue coloration of Larimar, which is the result of Cobalt substituting for Calcium.

How Much Larimar - Pectolite Worth?
The price of larimar ranges from $1 per gram to several hundred dollars for a high-quality one depending on its quality and size. Generally speaking, we can find good quality larimar jewelry at about $50- $100 for daily wear.

Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Littlechild(m): 10:37pm On May 27, 2023
23. Spinet Gemstone
Spinel is the magnesium/aluminium member of the larger spinel group of minerals. It has the formula MgAl ₂O ₄ in the cubic crystal system. Its name comes from the Latin word spinella, which means spine in reference to its pointed crystals.

Spinel is an important gem historically because it has been confused with other gemstones, especially ruby. Large red gems such as the Black Princes Ruby ..

Spinel is mined in many locations, including Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Myanmar (formerly Bruma) Brazil, Sweden, Pakistan, and Russia, among others. It can even be found in the USA.

How Much Spinet Worth?
Prices vary widely, but most spinets sell for under $1,500. It's a reasonable price compared to upright pianos that sell for $10,000.7

Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Lostchild(m): 10:38pm On May 27, 2023
28. Tiger Eye Gemstone
Tiger's eye gem is a chatoyant gemstone that is usually a metamorphic rock with a golden to red-brown colour and a silky lustre. As members of the quartz group, tiger's eye and the related blue-coloured mineral hawk's eye gain their silky, lustrous appearance from the parallel intergrowth of quartz crystals and altered amphibole fibres that have mostly turned into limonite.

How much does the tiger eye cost?
Tiger's Eye is incredibly affordable, with a price per carat of just $0.10 to $3. It's also widely available, especially in its most common forms. Today, Tiger's Eye is used in many ways. Tiger's Eye crystals are used for meditation and establishing balance in one's

Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by Lostchild(m): 10:38pm On May 27, 2023
26. Feld-spar Gemstone
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Re: The 26 Different Gemstones (Photos) by RoadMozart(m): 4:37pm On Jun 01, 2023
If I can't get them now, I will get them in heaven

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