What is Your Favorite Colored Gemstone?
The jewelry business is a market with an unbelievably vast amount of products. You can find a piece of jewelry in any size shape of form you are looking for. More and more, jewelry manufacturers are keeping a close eye on what customers are looking for. Among all the different types of jewelry out there, one specific segment seems to be always in trend, the colored stone jewelry. What is Your Favorite Colored Gemstone?
Colored gemstones are a big part of the jewelry business. Their color and contrast with precious metals make them very desirable. All of the most important jewelry manufacturers have multiple collections with colored stone pieces. One brand in particular, uses a colored stone as their trademark, Roberto Coin includes a tiny ruby in most of their pieces. We all agree that gorgeous green from the emerald, or that amazing blue from the sapphire make most pieces of jewelry a must have, but how much do you actually know about colored gemstones.
We picked some of the most popular gemstones to share some information about them. If you love colored gemstone but need to learn more about them to pick your favorite for your next piece if jewelry, here they are:
1 – Emerald
A variety of the mineral beryl colored green by trace amounts of chromium and sometimes vanadium, emeralds are usually highly included which classify their toughness as poor. When it comes to color, emeralds hues range from yellow-green to blue-green, with the primary hue necessarily being green. When we talk about tone, only gems that are medium to dark in tone are considered emerald. Classifying an emerald for clarity is basically done by eye, if an emerald has no visible inclusions is considered a flawless stone.
2 – Sapphire
A blue gemstone variety of the mineral corundum, an aluminium oxide, sapphire changes color in different light. Color change sapphires are blue in outdoor light and purple under incandescent indoor light, or green to gray-green in daylight and pink to reddish-violet in incandescent light. The one of the largest faceted sapphire in the world is the 423-carat (84.6 g) Logan sapphire in the National Museum of Natural History, in Washington, D.C.
3 – Ruby
A variety of the mineral corundum, a ruby is a pink to blood-red colored gemstone. Ruby is considered one of the four precious stones, together with sapphire, emerald and diamond. Ruby has 9.0 hardness in the Mohs scale, falling behind moissanite and diamond. Generally, gemstone-quality corundum in all shades of red, including pink, are called rubies. However, in the United States, a minimum color saturation must be met to be called a ruby, otherwise the stone will be called a pink sapphire.