Rare Gemstones

Written By The HealthMeth Team - Updated On Friday, January 8, 2021 12:00 PM

Gemstones

What distinguishes gemstones is their color, luster, transparency, and what gives them a greater price is their rarity, how they are extracted, which increases their value, and their hardness and resistance to scratching may affect their material value as well.


Rare Gemstones

Sapphire

Sapphire is one of the gemstones that ranks first in terms of high price, and belongs to the mineral corundum, which is made of aluminum oxide, and is available in red, brown, red, or pinkish purple colors.


Diamond

Diamonds occupy the second place after sapphire in terms of importance, and it is made of carbon as a result of exposure to high temperature and pressure, and is characterized by the purity of its white or transparent color, and it has many physical properties, the most important of which is its hardness and hardness.


Emeralds

Emerald is ranked third in importance, and it is a mineral of beryl, which is made of beryllium and aluminum silicate. It is found in the mines of hard rocks and marble, unlike most gemstones, and is characterized by its transparent dark green color.


Exhale

Sapphire is a type of corundum mineral blue in color, formed by heat and intense pressure, and is known as sapphire and also as sapphire or sapphire, and it is in all colors except red, the most famous and most of which is transparent blue and is ranked fourth in terms of importance.


Agate

Agate is an opaque, impure and amorphous mineral, usually red in color, and sometimes yellow, green, blue or gray, and it is a type of quartz known as jasper.


Onyx

Onyx or onyx is a semi-transparent mineral chemically composed of subtle crystalline silica that contains impurities of iron compounds, and these impurities show its different colors red, yellow, and brown, and the most famous of its types is onyx red, known as Romani, and brown agate is known as al-Kabadi.


Amethyst

Amethyst is a transparent mineral, popularly known as oriental sapphire, its color is light purple, dark or purple, and it acquires a purple color due to the presence of traces of manganese in its composition, while the original amethyst is a type of quartz that is composed of silicon dioxide.


Turquoise

Turquoise is known since ancient times, its color is greenish-blue or greenish-gray and sometimes turns to light green, and it is rare in its crystalline state, as it is composed of aluminum phosphate that contains copper water.


Topaz

Topaz is known as yellow sapphire or yellow sapphire, and it is a transparent mineral with a golden yellow color mainly, but there are blue, brown or yellow types, whose crystals form inside the cavities of the hard granite and schist stones.


lapis lazuli

In the past, lapis lazuli was known as lapis lazuli, which is a semi-precious and opaque stone, with a deep dark blue color. It has a double chemical composition of aluminum silicate and sodium mixed with iron and sulfur.


opal

Opal is a translucent gemstone in multiple colors, including blue, white, rare black, Portuguese red, green and yellow, with a sparkling sheen.