Gemstones

Gemstone Meanings
Looking for some interesting information on gemstone meanings and uses? The following article will cover some facts about gemstone meanings that will help you learn about the specific powers of each stone.

Gemstone Jewelry
Owning gemstone jewelry may have a different kind of a significance for very individual; it could be the sparkle or the symbolism associated with it. Here are some of the popular gemstones that are used widely for various types of jewelry.

Precious Stones
Read on to know more about some facts about the precious stones like diamonds, emeralds, sapphires and rubies…

Semi Precious Stones
Previously there was a rigid distinction between precious and semi precious stones by market appeal mainly, but this no longer applies.

Facts on Emeralds
Green means envy, but the emerald has a class of its own! Known to be best paired with diamonds, astrologically and aesthetically speaking, emeralds until recently were the only representative of the higher classes so far!

The Lustre of Blue Topaz
Topaz is a gemstone of all colors, and its most valuable color is a golden orange-yellow, called "imperial topaz".

Discovering the Cat’s Eye
A stone meant for Pisceans in general, the cat’s eye is a stone like the blue sapphire, which should be worn only on prescription.

Yellow Sapphire
Yellow Sapphire, a stone that is perhaps the most popular gemstone after diamonds and rubies. Known for its various properties, it gives the wearer a magnificent halo unmatched to any other luster in the universe.

All about Rubies
We associate the color red with love and passion; it is no wonder that rubies have always been among the most popular of gemstones. Their red shades vary from light to dark and they have different undertones, but to me that only adds to the charm and individuality of each stone.

Gems and Their Effects
While creating the Universe, it was a wee bit difficult for God to create utmost beauty in this world, perhaps that’s when he decided to use some innovation.

Jewelry and Gems This Valentine
Why do we always try to gift something exquisite to our beloveds? Why only flowers, roses, chocolates, and jewelry come to our mind as options? Why do people try so hard to choose the best jewelry design ever? At that moment, why cost or budget becomes secondary, and emotions are prioritized first.

Alluring Effects in Gemstones
Special optical effects in precious colored gemstones. Whenever we look, up above the world so high, it seems as if our eyes are being witness to a great scintillating wonder.

Aquamarine Jewelry - The Blue Color Diamond Displacer
Aquamarine is a pastel and serene stone representing the soul of ocean. It truly justifies its name meaning "water of the sea". It is a blue green variety of gem belonging to the family to beryl. Although it not a color intense stone its brilliance combined with its light colored body makes it to be a die heart beauty. Due to its good refractive index and stellar appearance it could be rightly called as a blue colored displacer for diamond.

Christmas Gemstone Bounty: Christmalicious Extravaganza for Buyers
This season, is to sparkle to the best. What could be the best way to add that never-before sheen to your personality? The answer is with the help of colored gemstones.

Jewels Falling From the Evergreen Showering Jewelry Deals From Retailers
This season, it’s going to be a real rejoice for people. To be specific, it’s going to be a great Christmas trees with a special touch.

As Lovely as Crostoli: Colored Jewelry Collection
In the US Christmas tradition, the dinner table flaunts the fantasies of taste buds. The menu consists of roasted turkey or ham. Potatoes and pie which include my favorites during the season. Apart from every other savory delicacies prepared, the "Crostoli" makes the winning move on the tongue.

Other Colored Gemstones of This World - IX
They say ruby heal wounds faster. Emerald’s green color soothes down the bloody intensity of the gladiator’s ambush in the arena.

Other Colored Gemstones Unknown to the World-VIII
Onyx has derived its name through Latin from Greek onyx. It means ‘claw’ or ‘fingernail’. Unlike the characteristic belief carried by almost all gemstones, onyx is not a good-willed mineral crystal.

Sapphire Earrings - A Portion of Sky
How about embellishing yourself with a portion of sky. If your answer is yes then sapphire earrings is something you are looking for. Whether it is concentrated and lush blue sapphire or innocent pink they do a lot to fill your face with a mystery of its own. Blue is the most known and celebrated color of this stone. But apart from blue it also comes in unconventional colors such as green, yellow, brown and orange.

Ruby Pendants Are All About Style and Riches
Ruby pendants are all about passion and mysticism. On your neckline they not merely hang as a beautiful piece of jewelry but they testify your lover’s passion and indulgence. Whether they are dished in heady aura of yellow gold or studded in lustrous precious metals such as white gold and platinum they are breathtakingly gorgeous. They appear like a drop of earth’s blood ornamented on jewels to spread its vigor and intensity.

Are Gemstones Rocks or Minerals?
An oft-asked question is whether gemstones or rocks or minerals. This article explains that the definition of gemstones includes, but is not limited to, both rocks and minerals.

Novelty of New Year: Sapphire Pendants
Christmas and New Year are two most awaited events within a year. New Year eve becomes a happening occasion after Christmas. Every year, all over the world, this last day of the year is celebrated to mark the end to previous year and to welcome the following set of months.

Maintenance Tips: Aquamarine Rings
Aquamarine, a precious gemstone is a widely accepted and admired since years. It derives its name from Latin word for’ seawater’. This subtle gemstone is seen in colors ranging from light blue to bluish green to deep blue. Most precious one is the latter.

Examine a Stone in Key Steps
Gemology is a vast study of gems, color, texture, blemishes, or cracks. It is about enhancements or treatments and knowledge about suitable cuts and settings.

Velvety Sparkling Fervor: Sapphire Rings
Legacies commonly arriving from the European royal families; Indian Maharajas; Kings and Queens of Africa to Sultans of Middle East, are mostly about the grand possession of that abundant, soft velvety jewelry in their treasure chests.

Timeless Stately Purchases for Generations: Ruby Rings
There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing. - Brian Tracy

Information on a Green Gemstone: Emerald Pendants
Emerald has been one of oldest stones being practiced in jewelry as well as devices of combat.

Loose Gemstones - How to Get Loose Gemstones for Cheap
If you know the gemstone market today, you will find that many stones are priced astronomically. In this article, I will try to explain you why these gemstones are so expensive and how to get them cheap.

Sapphire Rings - Secret Information for Buying One!
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor).

Tanzanite Earrings - A Chic Style Quotient
I have seen people day dreaming and pre-occupied with peculiar diversions of this state of mind. Giving an example of myself, I never stop that long stare on my mother’s jewelry during her, decking up.

Friendship Novelties - Colored Gemstone Rings and Earrings
Friendship is one of the pure and selfless human relationships known on this earth. Friends are channels through which one can make flow their emotions and feelings.

Color-Up This Thanksgiving Through Gifting Hued-Gems Jewelry
Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude. ~E.P. Powell

A Journey of Life with Angara’s Gemstone Jewelry
Whenever one comes across this very word ‘journey’, things like landscape, greenery and glimpse of non-urban area comes into mind. Moreover, in particular, if there is a hint of country in it, then it becomes really scenic, like a tawny eagle gliding over you to the orange grove nearby, into your nostalgia.

Emerald Jewelry - Fabulous and Flawed
At times beauty is so concentrated and lush that it is captivating to the extent of mesmerizing. Such is the charisma of Emerald. As an epitome of candid splendor, Emerald has been the stone of royal indicant.

Tantalizing Tanzanite
Do you remember the Oscar winning Hollywood movie titled 'Titanic', featuring a romantic love story? Definitely, it looked tantalizing over Rose's neck while drooling Jack made a sketch of hers in the incandescence.

Gemstones for Psychic Protection, Healing, and Awareness
Gemstones have innate qualities which make them very much suited to various psychic practices and exercises. Here, you will learn which gemstones are specifically good for psychic awareness, protection, and healing!

Man-made Opals vs Natural Opals
A guide to selecting and buying genuine opal stone jewelry. Lab created, versus earth mined opals and simulants.

Stirring up Beauty – the Fascinating Story of Sri Lankan Gemstones - 2/2
Sri Lanka is the fastest growing gem-cutting and finishing center in the world. The gem industry produces stones that meet the highest international standards.

Knowing More about Gems Decorating Thailand Jewelry
Gems, in general, can be classified as precious and semi-precious ones which fall under any one of the following: minerals, rock, or organic materials. For instance, lapis-lazuli is a rock while jet and amber are organic materials.

Specialty of Different Gemstones Jewelry
In the recent times jewelry is not only for women but it is also worn by men. Jewelry has become a fashion item and as such a part of the wardrobe. It refers to a necklace, ring, earrings or bracelets which are personal ornaments adorned by individuals as a style statement.

Emerald - One of the Oldest Gemstones
The Best Green Gemstone Emerald as well as most precious.

Aquamarine for Happiness and Wealth
Discover more things about Aquamarine and its Jewelry.

RUBY - The King of Gems
Rubies are intrinsically regal. It is the wonderful red color of rubies that has captured so many hearts for centuries.

Sapphire: Gemstone of the Heavens
Sapphire popularly known as the ‘gemstone of the heavens’ is the best way to describe the wonderful color of this gemstone. For centuries sapphires have been one of the most sought after and cherished gemstones. It is mainly blue sapphires that are the most popular choice across the globe but the pink, yellow, green, blue and white sapphires look equally charming.

Winza Ruby Gemstones
When Laura Bush was First Lady she asked for a ban on the rough and cut Burmese ruby. United States dealers quickly began to feel the financial blow this ban placed on the market.

Winza Ruby Cut and Facts
When found in nature the shape of a gemstone is usually determined by the natural crystal composition of the stone as well as the conditions under which the stone was developed.

The Most Valuable Gemstone - Diamond
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Fascinated with Citrine Jewelry
When it comes to jewelry then both metals and stones play a very important role in its formation. It is up to the user which type of jewelry does he or she prefer to use. Many people prefer to go for metallic jewelries that provides them glittering and shiny look. Despite of this fact, there is shortage of people who give more precedence to gemstone jewelries.

Onyx - The Story of Chalcedony Quartz
A history of Onyx. Including the famous uses of chalcedony quartz over the centuries.

Sapphire, Emerald & Ruby - The Three Most Popular Colored Gemstones
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Ruby - The Birthstone for July
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Shared Beauty - The World of Sri Lankan Gemstones -1/2
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The Beauty and Metaphysical Properties of Topaz
Topaz is a popular gemstone for fashion and fine jewelry today. In addition to its beauty, the metaphysics and spirituality of this stone has played a key role in its popularity.

The Beauty and Spiritual Powers of Tiger Eye
Tiger eye has become popular for fashion jewelry because it warm brown and gold colors, and because of its low cost. However, many prefer tiger jewelry because of the spiritual benefits that have been attributed to it. This article discusses the beauty and spirituality of tiger eye.

The Beauty and History of Lapis Lazuli
As one of the oldest gems known to man, lapis lazuli has been around for a long time, and has a long and rich history. Read on to find out about this beautiful gem with the twinkle of the stars!

The Beauty, History and Metaphysics of Peridot
Peridot has a warm green glow about it that has made it a favorite of jewelry fans and designers the world over. The largest known deposits of this stone occur in one of the world's most troubled regions - the Afghan Pakistan border. Read on to find out more about this stone.

Amethyst - Spiritual, Physical and Metaphysical Properties
Amethyst has been a popular gemstone for fine and fashion jewelry for many centuries now. Its purple color has inspired a sense of royalty, and many believed that the crystal has spiritual and metaphysical benefits. This article sheds light on these properties of amethyst.

Agates - Physical and Metaphysical Properties
Agates occur in great abundance around the world and are popular stones in today's fashion jewelry. This article describes the physical and and metaphysical properties of this stone.

Miracles of Mesmerizing Gemstones
Gemstones stand for the royals and come in a tremendous variety. Each gemstone portrays a particular significance.

What Is Quartz?
Quartz is one of the most abundant minerals on Earth but, at the same time, one of the most confusing. Bewilderment is caused by an array of terminology used to classify quartzes: macrocrystalline, microcrystalline, cryptocrystalline. In the world of retail chalcedony and agate are often traded as quartz, which is only partially accurate.

What Exactly is the Gemstone Known as Jade?
Most people can identify jade as a green ornamental gemstone, commonly associated with the Orient. However, it is a misconception that there is a single gemstone known as "jade". In fact, there are two gemstones, nephrite and jadeite, which are referred to as jade.

What are Gemstones?
A gemstone could seemingly be anything. If things as disparate as fossilized marine life and a rock composed of copper and iron can be considered gemstones, then it is difficult to have any objective consensus about what is a gemstone. This article attempts to give the gemstone an objective identity.

The Evening Emerald: Peridot
"Evening Emerald" is the name given to a gemstone known as Peridot.

Healing Through Lapis-Lazuli Gemstone
Lapis Lazuli enhances energies and can be very well used as stone, which take cares of the wearer, both physically and emotionally.

Some Curing features of Green Gems
Emerald is a special gemstone which is the most significant of all other green gemstones. The green emerald is effectively used for various healing purposes such as serenity, love, psychic powers, remedy of depression etc.

Sparkling Gemstones
Information about popular gemstones is freely available on internet e.g. the site http://www.gemtstone.org displays a list of about 40 popular gemstones. There is information about many gemstones which have been perfectly cut and shaped.

Role of Gemstones in Improving Psychic Capacities
There was a time when spiritual healers seemed to heal different mental and physical disorders with the help of different gemstones and minerals and now with the passage of time when this believe in the healing effects of the gemstones should have been decreased, the things seem to act contrarily and once again people are moving towards the spiritual healings that is offered by different means including gemstones.

Prehistoric Gemstone Lapis Lazuli
Its luster and beauty greatly increase when it goes through different treatments. Heating can fade its color so it is avoided with excessive heat, similarly, different chemicals that are an essential part of its composition can react with other chemicals so it must also be avoided with chemical exposure

Man made gemstones and beads
Gemstones are precious and semi-precious stones that are used in jewelry, decorative items and in some domestic goods. Scientifically, they can be minerals, rocks or some petrified materials.

Top Ten Gemstone Distinctive Influences
From ancient times Gemstones are used for different healing and influential purposes. and there are so many legends about them.

How To Buy Colored Stones On The Internet
This article is a "how-to" guide to buying colored stones on the internet. It will explore the common pitfalls of gemstone purchases online and explain how to avoid them. The primary focus is on selecting an ethical gem dealer and learning all you can about what you buy.

The Truth about Treatments : Colored Gemstones
Gem treatments that consumers need to look out for when buying colored gemstone jewelry.

Gemstone Silver Rings Offer Elegance in an Affordable Way
Is there a way for you to achieve the level of splendor that you desire while not depleting your bank account? Find out a balancing solution right here!

Emeralds; Captivating Gemstones of Great Value
Emeralds are amazing gemstones. Find out what makes them so valuable, where they are found and what you must watch for when looking to buy a fine piece of emerald jewelry

Calcite: Gemstone of Calcium Carbonate
Calcite is a mineral that occupies four percent of the earth’s crust. It is also a beautiful gemstone, provides an energy spectrum for the chakras and is a cultural and historic gem dating from King Tutankhamen of Egypt in 1340BC. This article explores its value, beauty and presence in human communities.

Tiger Iron: Three-in-one Gemstone
The creative beauty, cultural and biological presence of tiger iron gemstone jewelry and art objects are valued in many ways. This article describes the beauty and value of this natural gemstone.

Andalusite: The Unknown Star
Who ever heard of an andalusite gemstone? This article provides a description of its amazing beauty, diverse and changeable personality and a resource for viewing it and other similar semi-precious gemstones.

Gem Stone Silver Rings are Two Treasures in One!
Want the perfect combination of the vibrant yet earthy and holistic qualities of minerals laid against the noble backdrop of sterling silver? Gem stone silver rings are a gorgeous way to display that combination on your fingers for all to see.

All You Ever Wanted To Know About Earrings But Were Afraid to Ask
In the 2nd century during the Roman Empire, earrings became a popular way for rich women to show off their wealth and the use of precious gemstones in the jewelry also became more popular.