Have you ever heard of natural zircon? Often in the world of jewelry and precious stones there is a lot of confusion between the terms diamond and zircon. In this article we will explain the differences and their values. First of all let’s talk about zircon. Often people mistakenly refer to what is actually a…
Did you know that rose quartz was voted the lucky stone of 2020? Yes, every year has its own birthstone and in 2020 it has been established that this is precisely the rose quartz. A translucent quartz, pale pink in color, which is part of the family of crystalline quartz. A stone of very ancient…
Do you know the adularia or moonstone? The name adularia comes from Mount Adula located in Switzerland, where the first deposits in alpine rocks were discovered. Adularia is colorless or light green and belongs to the feldspar group: It also has a hardness of 6-6.5, therefore medium. If worn on jewels you must therefore be…
Do you know the color of tourmaline? Tourmaline is a very particular gem because it is present in nature in more than a hundred shades of different colors, sometimes even polychrome. In fact, its name derives from the Sinhalese “turmali” which means stone of mixed colors. Over the years it has also been called “the…
Have you ever heard of rubellite? There is a stone, very similar to ruby, which is actually rubellite. It is a purplish red tourmaline. From the beginning of the twentieth century it was often confused with ruby. In reality they are both very precious gems and of a wonderful color, but the rubellite also has…
Do you know the history of the sapphire? Sapphire is a precious stone belonging to the corundum family, it is composed of highly allochromatic aluminum oxide (Al2O3) crystals. As for its hardness, it is one of the hardest gems, in fact it has 9 on the Mohs scale. Its name derives from the Latin “sappheiros”,…
Do you know morganite? This precious stone, with the bizarre name morganite, was originally also called pink beryl. Morgarite belongs to the beryl family. The emerald and the aquamarine also belong to the same family: the most precious. It can be considered a fairly recent stone, its discovery dates back to about a century ago…
Have you ever heard of tanzanite? Tanzanite is a relatively recent stone. It is called the gem of the twentieth century, because it was only discovered in 1967. It is a very rare stone, much more than diamonds, because there is only one deposit in the world, located on the slopes of Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania.…
Have you ever heard of Paraiba Tourmaline? Do you know the Paraiba Tourmaline colour? Paraiba Tourmaline was first discovered in 1989 by Heitor Dimas Barbosa. For seven years he had been tunneling under a mountain in the São José de Batalha area, in the homonymous state of Paraiba. Eventually he came across a crystal that…
