![]() Mothers often wear rings, pendants, or pins that contain their children's birthstone(s). Some students select their birthstone as the center stone of their high school or college class ring. These sets are popular birthday and graduation gifts. Three-piece sets that include a birthstone ring, pendant, and pair of earrings are sold in many stores. The first jewelry item that many children receive is often a birthstone ring, earrings, or pendant. In the United States alone, consumers buy millions of dollars' worth of birthstone jewelry every month. Wearing and gifting birthstone jewelry is a long-standing custom in many countries. Mother's Birthstone Ring: A Mother's Ring displaying a lab-grown birthstone for each of her children. August Birthstones: Peridot, Spinel, and Sardonyx Others are happy with the great appearance and lower price of lab-created gems. Many people are happy to pay the higher price for natural gems because they treasure gems that formed naturally within the Earth. If you spend time studying them, you might note that the synthetic gems usually have better clarity and better color than natural gems of similar price. Many of them will likely be synthetic or lab-grown ruby. Today, if you go to a mall jewelry store such as Zales or Kay Jewelers, you will encounter a case with a large assortment of ruby jewelry items for sale. Lab-grown rubies have been in the United States jewelry market since the early 1900s. Lab-grown ruby is very common in jewelry stores in the United States. Natural rubies have historically been expensive gems, but recent discoveries in Africa bring many attractive natural rubies into the market at affordable prices. ![]() The most desirable and valuable colors are pure red and slightly purplish red. Rubies range in color from orangy-red, to red, to slightly purplish-red. 1.05ct Aqua.Ruby is the birthstone for the month of July and the world's most popular red gem. So if you choose to believe in the legends that surround aquamarine or choose to wear it to fight off different ailments of the body, it cannot be disputed that aquamarine is truly a beautiful and unique stone.ġ4kw Aquamarine&Diamond Pendant.12tdw SI1-2 GH. Aquamarine is said to help arthritis, eye inflammation, sore throat and varicose veins. ![]() Whether it is factual or a placebo effect, it doesn’t really matter so long as it helps the people who need it. The Greeks and Romans also knew aquamarine as the sailors gem as well, using it to ensure the safe and prosperous passage across many stormy seas. The healing powers of gems remains a controversial issue. Since the word aquamarine is a term for seawater in Latin it is no surprise that is has a long tradition of being a stone for those who spent much of their time at sea. According to Old Norse and Old Icelandic legend aquamarine originated in the treasure chest of mermaids, and has since been regarded as the ‘the sailors luck stone’. Like every gem stone in history there are cases of mythology and crystal healing powers associated with the gem and aquamarine is no different. Other areas where aquamarine is sourced is, Australia, Burma, China, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe, U.S.A, and most recently Karur, India has become one of the biggest suppliers of aquamarine. The leading producer of aquamarine is Brazil, with many mines spread throughout the country. It was mined and cut into many gems, a total weight of more than 100,000CT! Now that’s a big rock! The largest aquamarine stone ever found was 243lb and was found in Marambaya, Brazil in 1910. The largest cut aquamarine to be recorded is the ’Dom Pedro’, weighing in at 26kg that’s 57lbs! Bernd Munsteiner a gem stone designer cut it in Germany in 1992. The most valuable and desirable aquamarine is one that has a deeply saturated blue. It is no surprise that the word ‘Aquamarine’ comes from an old Latin expression, which means ‘seawater’. It has a beautiful glass-like luster and is most famous for its amazing sea-blue colors, which range from light to dark blue. Aquamarine is a very hard gemstone and rates at a 7.5 to 8 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness.Īquamarine is a very clean gem, free of many visible impurities unlike it’s counter part emerald. Other gems in the beryl family include, Morganite, Golden Beryl, Green Beryl and Bixbite. The beryl family of minerals is most famous for the gem that has the rich green coloring, known as Emerald. Aquamarine is the blue to blue-green variety of the beryl family. Aquamarine is the official birthstone for the month of March.
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