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Our Featured Gemological ArticleCollecting Prescious And Semi-Prescious Stones
By Lee MacRae
Why would anyone collect items like loose gemstones, you ask? Well to begin with gemstones are extremely beautiful. And just like natural diamonds their value increases over time. Many in this hobby love to find, collect and finish the wide variety of gemstones available today. Read long as we examine the loose gemstones hobby.
The first thing you need to do in beginning this hobby the proper way is by acquiring knowledge about them. By visiting a local library you'll find numerous books on gemstones that will prevent you from making mistakes at the start.
The first item to take into account will be stone color. You'll want the stone to be as close in color as possible to the pure colors of the spectrum. We are talking about violet, orange, yellow, green, blue, and red. The prices of very dark are very pale precious and semi precious gemstones are lower.
Cut is one of the all-important 4Cs and is used not only to appraise diamonds but along with your gemstones. A good cut highlights the pure color of the stone, diminish any inclusions, and highlight the proportions and symmetry of the stone. One excellent method to determine the precision in its cut is to check if it is able to reflect light on a consistent level throughout the surface of the stone. If the gemstone is cut to shallow most of this light were refracted away rather than reflecting internally. Gemstone color will be washed out.
The clarity of a gemstone is an important consideration. Gemstone clarity relates to a stones relative freedom from inclusions or blemishes. A flawless gemstone is definitely worth much more. To examine flaws not seen with the naked eye requires a gemstone loupe or gemstone microscope. Serious hobbyists will employ a jewelers diamond gemstone loupe 10X for viewing their coins, beads, stamps or in our case gemstones.
Gemstones are often categorized according to their size because of being more uniform than carat weight. But two different gemstones may have the same size but differ in carat weights and as a result different pricing structures. This is due to gemstone difference regarding relative density or specific gravity depending upon the chemical composition and crystal structure type Normally a one carat brilliant round diamond of typical proportions will be approximately 6.5 mm in diameter. A ruby that is the same size will weigh in at 1.55 carats instead.
Collecting various gemstones can be very rewarding hobby. And there are so many different types in gemstones you can collect. You can collect gemstones like Kunzite, Citrine or Zircon and then try others. The choice and beauty and variety is almost endless. And if money is tight you can go hunting for raw gemstones. Just in the United States in Wyoming you can find Agate (including Moss Agate), Jade, Ruby, Jasper, Bloodstone as well as Star Sapphire.
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Topaz is a beautiful light blue or yellow stone. Yellow Topaz is November's
birthstone while blue topaz is December's birthstone. It is much less expensive
than aquamarine. It looks beautiful in rings, bracelets, necklaces, and pendants
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aventurine cabochonAventurine is a translucent to opaque variety of
microcrystalline quartz. Small inclusions of shiny minerals give the stone a
sparkling effect known as aventurescence. Aventurine ranges in color from green,
peach, brown, blue and a creamy green. Mohs hardness is 6.5. (Pronounced: ah-ven
-shur-ine)
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