natural gemstone

Natural Gemstones

Shopping for natural gemstones can sometimes be very tricky, as often, prices can seem to vary vastly on products that look nearly identical. For this reason, many people are often ripped off when buying Natural Gemstones. If you want to find out what’s good and what’s not, and also where to safely purchase natural gemstones from, you’ve come to the right place.

Advertisers can often fluff out the terminology for natural gemstones. At the end of the day they come straight from the ground, and although they will have been cut and polished, they will not have been altered in any others ways. Advertisers may try and use words such as natural, genuine, synthetic, simulated, treated amongst others to try and make out that their gemstones are superior to the rest, alongside them trying to justify the high price they are charging. Not to say everyone who advertises natural gemstones is trying to trick you, just a word of warning to look out for.

If you are looking to buy natural gemstones, always check whether it has been enhanced or not. Once a gem has been enhanced, a company can no longer label is as natural. To sum it up quickly, a perfect natural gemstone with no imperfections straight from the ground would be worth millions, as they are extraordinarily rare. Companies will enhance their gemstones to the same standards as the non-enhanced stones, but simply because they are not naturally perfect, they are worth nothing compared to what the …

Amethyst Jewelry

Amethyst Jewelry

Amethyst is a gemstone that is used in various types of jewelry. The actual word Amethyst is derived from the Greek word amethystos, which has a literal translation of “remedy against drunkenness”. Amethysts, and all gemstone for that matter, are graded in the exact same way as diamonds. They are graded by their color, clarity, cut and carat weight. Amethysts are known as a variety of crystallized quartz, and are a member of the Quartz family, or to give them their scientific name, silicon dioxide. You will typically find that the crystal structure of an Amethyst is hexagonal.

Amethyst jewelry comes in a wide variety of natural shades and colors. These include purple, bluish-purple and reddish-purple. However, with that said, amethysts in their purest form are actually colorless. An amethyst will produce color due to the absorption of certain wavelengths of light. The color will consist of three separate components which are the hue, which is the initial impression of color. The tone, which is the term given for the lightness or darkness of color and the saturation, which measures the intensity of an Amethyst’s color.

The amethyst is also known as a birthstone for the month of February. It covers the zodiac sign for Aquarius which is known as the water bearer. Amethyst is also a wedding anniversary gemstone that is typically presented for the fourth and sixth year of married life. The amethyst as a birthstone also has certain properties that are associated with the zodiac …