Collecting Prescious And Semi-Prescious Gemstones
By Lee MacRae
For many people collecting loose gemstones or loose diamonds is their favorite hobby. They simply love the beauty and the colors of the various gemstones you can find just about everywhere in the world. This article will look at a number of factors you should understand when starting to collect gemstones yourself.
Right at the start you need to learn all you can on the various gemstones available. This knowledge will help you to know what you're buying so you buy the right items. Without the proper knowledge you can make costly mistakes.
The chief thing you need to factor in should be gemstone 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. Generally, the prices very pale or very dark precious and semi precious gemstones are lower than the vibrant colors.
The cut of the gemstone is one of the most important traits when buying a gemstone. The gemstone must be cut with precision to reflect the light properly. A poor cut will not reflect the light consistently. The color hue, color tone and saturation will never be consistent.
The next factor to look at is the gemstone's clarity. This is talking about the gemstones purity or the lack of internal inclusions, spots, or particles within the crystal structure. Needless to say, stones with no flaws are hard to find and make your stones very valuable.
Next thing to look at is the duo of size and weight. Because gemstones can vary in density or specific gravity. Weight and size are not necessarily equal across the board. Take the example of a diamond that weighs 1.00 carats and a sapphire of equal size would weigh 1.20 carats. An Emerald of equal size would be approximately 0.95 carats while an Alexandrite would be about 1.23 carats.
Getting involved in collecting gemstones can become an enjoyable pastime and rewarding in the long run. It doesn't have to be very expensive and yet you can build a very exquisite collection. Many people love to set aside vacation or weekend time to go hunting for raw gemstones. Just in the United States in Minnesota you can hunt for Agate and Thomsonite. Or ou can take a longer vacation and find opal at Lightning Ridge in NSW, Austalia, topaz in Killiecrankie, Tasmania or hunt in the garnet fields in Fullarton River in Queensland, Australia.
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Diamonds are usually colorless. However, brown, yellow, green, blue, pink, red,
gray and black variations are also found depending on the impurities present.
Diamond has a hardness rating of 10. In general, diamonds are reasonably durable
. Yet, diamonds are subject to chipping and fracture when handled roughly.
Diamonds should be stored separately. Diamonds can scratch other jewelry as well
as each other.
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Legend has it the Hope Diamond came from the eye of an idol in a temple on the
coleroon River in India. If that is so, one can only conjecture that the eye
must have had a mate, but the fate of "the other eye" has never come to light.
It would not be the first famous diamond that started it's notoriety in a
religious idol. The Idol's Eye, the Eye the Goddess, the Heart of the Goddess
and the Orlov came from idols, according to legend. Tavernier purchased the
stone and smuggled it to Paris, where he later sold it to King Louis XIV. It was
cut there into a triangular-pear-shaped stone weighing 67.50 carats, and was
then known as the French Blue.
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There are a lot of different trade names for opals, but the most recognized and
widely used is the precious and common opal. Even though the opal is brittle and
can break quite easily, and is prey to scratches and heat it remains high on the
list of gemstone collectors. The reason is that opals are truly beautiful. Its.
beauty fascinated earlier cultures. Some even believed it fell from heaven. The
birthstone of October is the opal and in the 19th century those who were
superstitious believed that only those born in that month should wear opals.
Anyone else wearing one was supposed to have run the risk of having bad luck or
running into a dire fate.
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