Thursday, August 14, 2008
Gemstones Updates
Gemstone Article Of The Month
By Lee MacRae
Many people today say collecting loose gemstones or loose diamonds is their favorite hobby. Many people have a great love of the various gemstones you can find just about everywhere in the world. Follow along as we examine the things you need to know in starting in this interesting hobby.
To begin with you need to read up on the various gemstones available. This knowledge will help you to know what exactly you're looking for so you buy the right items. Without the proper knowledge you can make costly mistakes.
The first criteria you need to evaluate is stone color. It is a fact that gemstones are the most intensely colored natural materials you can find. Gemstones are so related to color that they've even had their names combined with associated colors. Everyone knows ruby red, emerald green, sapphire blue, aquamarine, turquoise, and jade green Gemstones are valued much higher when they equal the colors in the spectrum of orange, green, yellow, violet and blue. They are valued much less the farther they deviate from the natural color.
Cut is one of the all-important 4Cs and is used not only to appraise diamonds along with gemstones. An excellent cut will showcase the natural color of the gemstone, diminish any inclusions, and highlight the proportions and symmetry of the stone. One way of determining the excellence in the cut is to look at how consistently it reflects the light throughout its surface. If the gemstone is cut to shallow most of the light will refract out instead of reflecting internally. The gem appears washed out.
The clarity in a stone is the next item to consider. Gemstone clarity relates to the amount of inclusions (trace elements or large particles of other elements or minerals) that a gem has. A gemstones that is normally found to be clean is obviously worth more. To determine the flaws not seen with the unaided eye you need a gem microscope or 10X gemstone clarity magnifier. Many hobbyists will employ a 10X jewelers were gemstone loup for viewing stamps, coins, beads as well as gems.
Next to consider are weight and size. Save for pearls and corals, all gemstones are valued by the unit called the carat. One carat is the equivalent of 0.2 grams Be aware however, that weight and size are not always equal and gemstones. Density or specific gravity can very. Take a diamond that is 1.00 carats in weight and you will find that a similar sized ruby or sapphire weighs 1.20 carats.
Getting involved in collecting gemstones can become an enjoyable pastime and also rewarding in the long run. You can start small and don't have to spend a lot of money and yet you can buy some very beautiful items. Many people loved to spend weekends to go hunting gemstones. For example in Arkansas you can find Clear & Smoky Quartz, Diamond and Agate. And if you like to travel farther you can find opal at Lightning Ridge in NSW, Austalia, topaz in Beechworth, Victoria or hunt the sapphire fields in Anakie, Rubyvale, Sapphire, Glenalva, The Willows, Inverell or Glen Innes in Queensland, Austalia.
Buy oval Zircon loose gemstones along with rough loose diamonds as well as a natural green diamond today in our store!
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Collecting Prescious And Semi-Prescious Gemstones
By Lee MacRae
Many people today say collecting loose gemstones or loose diamonds is their favorite hobby. Many people have a great love of the various gemstones you can find just about everywhere in the world. Follow along as we examine the things you need to know in starting in this interesting hobby.
To begin with you need to read up on the various gemstones available. This knowledge will help you to know what exactly you're looking for so you buy the right items. Without the proper knowledge you can make costly mistakes.
The first criteria you need to evaluate is stone color. It is a fact that gemstones are the most intensely colored natural materials you can find. Gemstones are so related to color that they've even had their names combined with associated colors. Everyone knows ruby red, emerald green, sapphire blue, aquamarine, turquoise, and jade green Gemstones are valued much higher when they equal the colors in the spectrum of orange, green, yellow, violet and blue. They are valued much less the farther they deviate from the natural color.
Cut is one of the all-important 4Cs and is used not only to appraise diamonds along with gemstones. An excellent cut will showcase the natural color of the gemstone, diminish any inclusions, and highlight the proportions and symmetry of the stone. One way of determining the excellence in the cut is to look at how consistently it reflects the light throughout its surface. If the gemstone is cut to shallow most of the light will refract out instead of reflecting internally. The gem appears washed out.
The clarity in a stone is the next item to consider. Gemstone clarity relates to the amount of inclusions (trace elements or large particles of other elements or minerals) that a gem has. A gemstones that is normally found to be clean is obviously worth more. To determine the flaws not seen with the unaided eye you need a gem microscope or 10X gemstone clarity magnifier. Many hobbyists will employ a 10X jewelers were gemstone loup for viewing stamps, coins, beads as well as gems.
Next to consider are weight and size. Save for pearls and corals, all gemstones are valued by the unit called the carat. One carat is the equivalent of 0.2 grams Be aware however, that weight and size are not always equal and gemstones. Density or specific gravity can very. Take a diamond that is 1.00 carats in weight and you will find that a similar sized ruby or sapphire weighs 1.20 carats.
Getting involved in collecting gemstones can become an enjoyable pastime and also rewarding in the long run. You can start small and don't have to spend a lot of money and yet you can buy some very beautiful items. Many people loved to spend weekends to go hunting gemstones. For example in Arkansas you can find Clear & Smoky Quartz, Diamond and Agate. And if you like to travel farther you can find opal at Lightning Ridge in NSW, Austalia, topaz in Beechworth, Victoria or hunt the sapphire fields in Anakie, Rubyvale, Sapphire, Glenalva, The Willows, Inverell or Glen Innes in Queensland, Austalia.
Buy oval Zircon loose gemstones along with rough loose diamonds as well as a natural green diamond today in our store!
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More Information On natural colored diamond
Citrine is yellow quartz. It has a hardness of 7. Citrine can be easily
scratched. Citrine often permenantly changes color if left in the sunlight for
several hours. Most citrine on the market is heat treated amethyst. Citrine is
found in Brazil, Madagascar, Spain, USA (California, Colorado, Georgia, and
Nevada) and the former USSR.
Buy loose Emerald gemstones today!
In nature, the emerald is one of the rarest and most valuable of all gems. A fine quality emerald of good brilliant green color and clarity is more valuable than a diamond. The word �emerald� comes from a sanskrit word meaning �the green of growing things�. Nature takes about 1 million years to create an emerald. It is the birthstone for May and ranks 7.5 to 8 on the Mohs Scale of Hardness.
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A New Look At Colored Diamond Fluorescence - Diamonds.net
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9-year-old University Park boy finds 2.75-carat diamond in ... - Dallas Morning News
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:38:11 GMT
 Dallas Morning News | 9-year-old University Park boy finds 2.75-carat diamond in ... Dallas Morning News, TX - I don't think it's a diamond.' " His mom, Suzanne Smith, admitted she thought most diamonds were white and almost dismissed the dark, cola-colored stone her ... |
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