Citrine is a variety of quartz ranging in colors of yellow, yellow-brown, orange, dark orange-brown, reddish-brown. The gemstone Citrine is the official birthstone for the month of November as adopted by the American National Association of Jewelers in 1912. It is also the Planetary stone for the Sun Sign of Virgo and the accepted gem [...]

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Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz often used in jewelry. The name comes from the Ancient Greek á¼€ a- (“not”) and μέθυστος methustos (“intoxicated”), a reference to the belief that the stone protected its owner from drunkenness; the ancient Greeks and Romans wore amethyst and made drinking vessels of it in the belief that [...]

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Tiger eye is quartz that contains oriented fibres of crocidolite that have been replaced by silica. Tiger eye is displaying chatoyancy (a vertical luminescent band like that of a cat’s eye) . Tiger eye typically has lustrous alternating yellow or brown bands. Tiger Eye is the anniversary gemstone for the 9th year of marriage. Roman [...]

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Opal is a mineraloid gel which is deposited at a relatively low temperature and may occur in the fissures of almost any kind of rock, being most commonly found with limonite, sandstone, rhyolite, marl and basalt. The word opal comes from the Latin opalus, by Greek opallios. The water content is usually between three and [...]

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The name onyx was used by the Romans for a variety of stones including alabaster, chalcedony, and what is now known as onyx marble. Roman soldiers wore sardonyx talismans engraved with heroes such as Hercules or Mars, god of war. They believed that the stone would make the wearer as brave and daring as the [...]

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Sapphire (Greek: σάπφειρος; sappheiros “blue stone” is a gemstone variety of the mineral corundum, an aluminium oxide (α-Al2O3), when it is a color other than red or dark pink, in which case the gem would instead be called a ruby, considered to be a different gemstone. Trace amounts of other elements such as iron, titanium, [...]

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Emeralds are a variety of the mineral beryl (Be3Al2(SiO3)6) colored green by trace amounts of chromium and sometimes vanadium. Beryl has a hardness of 7.5–8 on the 10 point Mohs scale of mineral hardness Emerald is regarded as the traditional birthstone for May, as well as the traditional gemstone for the astrological signs of Taurus, [...]

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The ruby is a pink to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide). The red color is caused mainly by the presence of the element chromium. Its name comes from ruber, Latin for red. Other varieties of gem-quality corundum are called sapphires. Rubies have a hardness of 9.0 on the Mohs [...]

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ET Gems: Black Diamonds Come From Outer Space By Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Staff Writer If you’re looking for a space-age way to propose marriage, a black-diamond ring might be the way to go. Long baffled by their origin, scientists now have evidence that these charcoal-colored gems formed in outer space. Stephen Haggerty and Jozsef Garai, [...]

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