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- Precious Gemstones. Only four gemstones in the world are classified as precious gemstones-emeralds, rubies, sapphires and diamonds. The term originates from ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt and Mesopotamia, where the gemstones held ceremonial and historical importance.
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9 Of The Most Valuable Minerals In The World (PHOTOS) Many of these minerals are mined in war zones or seized by militant groups, making them conflict minerals. Check out our slideshow of a sampling of some of the world's most valuable minerals. As always, we want to hear from you in the comments. PHOTOS: Black Opals, Painite, Lithium and 6 More Of The Most Valuable Minerals In The World.
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- Of all the precious stones, diamond is the most subject to myth. It is interesting that the myths are of modern rather than ancient origin. Historically, colored gemstones such as ruby and sapphire were more highly valued than diamond, mainly because diamond was not particularly rare.
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The Most Expensive Metal In The World Monday October 13, 2014 12:34. If you think gold, or silver are the most expensive metals in the world because we call them “precious”, you are wrong. For starters, other precious metals like platinum and rhodium cost more despite the fact that their prices came down considerably in recent weeks.
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Precious metal The best known precious metals are the coinage metals, which are gold and silver. Although both have industrial uses, they are better known for their uses in art, jewelry, fine jewelry and coinage. Other precious metals include the platinum group metals: ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum, of which platinum is the most widely traded. The demand for precious metals is driven not only by their practical use but also by their role as investments and a store of value.
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Top 10 Rarest Gems 2. Red Diamonds USD $2-2.5 Million/Carat. Only a very few red diamonds are ever found, and few people have only seen even one treated red diamond. The gem is described as a purplish red, so it is not a pure red, crimson, vermilion, or scarlet. Nevertheless for its size it is one of the most expensive diamonds ever.
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What Does the PATRIOT Act Allow the Government to Do? With a variety of clauses dedicated to preventing terrorism, the PATRIOT Act was signed into action by former President George W. Bush, who stated: “These terrorists [behind the World Trade Center and anthrax attacks] must be pursued, they must be defeated, and they must be brought to justice.
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- Beside yellow and blue, topaz also occurs as orange stones. These orange gemstones come from two varieties of topaz, namely, precious topaz and imperial topaz, which is a pinkish orange and the more valuable of the two.Topaz is the traditional and modern birthstone for November.ext to red and purple diamonds, the orange precious stone is the rarest of diamonds. Like the rest of its kind, this orange rock is the hardest of minerals, and endowed with a high refractive index that makes this orange jewel shine brilliantly. For this reason, diamond is the most expensive of orange gemstones.
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- The idea that some gemstones are precious and others are only semi-precious is familiar to every buyer of colored stones. Precious stones-diamond, ruby, sapphire and emerald-traditionally command high prices due to their extraordinary color or brilliance and extreme rarity.
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The World's Biggest Uncut Diamond Is Still Up For Grabs The Lesedi la Rona, which means “our light” in the Tswana language spoken in Botswana, is the world’s second-biggest gem quality diamond ever recovered, and the largest in more than a century. The biggest is the Cullinan diamond, a 3,106-carat stone found in South Africa in 1905. Lucara last month sold a 812.77 carat uncut diamond named The Constellation, which it found at the same Botswana mine as the Lesedi la Rona, for $63.1 million. A Dubai-based firm was the buyer, according to media reports.
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- From a diamond-studded watch containing 874 sparkling little gems to a yacht made from pure gold, these are 15 of the most expensive things ever sold. webbs. This is the most valuable feather in the world, since it once belonged to a Huia bird, which is now extinct.
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- The lesser expensive jewelry are often made with semi-precious stones. The most popular of these are zircon, opal, amethyst, turquoise, aquamarine, jade, coral, garnet, and malachite. The different colors and varieties of the semi-precious stones make them very valuable to the jewelry industry.eparating precious stones into these types of groups helps to identify their composition, their color, and their origin. They also have a refractive index, dispersion, specific gravity, hardness, cleavage, fracture, and luster. Each of these features is important when assessing the value of the stone. Ad.
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10 Most Precious Gemstones Discovered in Brazil in the 1990s, the diamond has a triangular brilliant cut (also known as a trilliant cut) and was most recently displayed at the 2003 Splendor of Diamonds exhibit at the Smithsonian.
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- The Pink Star becomes the world’s most expensive diamond The Pink Star becomes the world’s most expensive diamond. The Pink Star diamond smashed all records when it sold for $71.2m at Sotheby’s Hong Kong yesterday, the highest price paid for any diamond at auction. 05 April 2017 by REBECCA DOULTON
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The Rise of the Brazilian Jewelry Industry The wealth of stones includes aquamarine, morganite, blue topaz, yellow to imperial topaz, amethyst, citrine, green quartz, smoky quartz, rose quartz, various colors of tourmaline, rhodonite, iolite, and others.
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Top 10 Amazing Record Breaking Gemstones Record: The Largest Faceted Blue Sapphire In The World. In 1907, a remarkable huge blue sapphire was discovered near Adams Peak, Sri Lanka. This was a huge deal, as blue is one of the rarest colors of sapphire on the planet. The sapphire was subsequently cut and polished into the Blue Giant of the Orient.
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200-ton jade stone found in north Myanmar The world's largest jade stone, weighing around 3,000 tons was discovered in Hpakant in 2000. Myanmar is one of the world's biggest producers of jade, most found in the conflict-torn mountains of Kachin, where ethnic rebels have been fighting the government for more than half a century.
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The Rise of the Brazilian Jewelry Industry The wealth of stones includes aquamarine, morganite, blue topaz, yellow to imperial topaz, amethyst, citrine, green quartz, smoky quartz, rose quartz, various colors of tourmaline, rhodonite, iolite, and others. The Brazilian consumer often goes for the color rather than the higher-priced gemstones.
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Types of Gemstones Rarity. Most semi-precious gems are relatively common. Garnets, zircons, and quartz gems such as citrine and amethyst are found in many places around the world, so these gems are never in short supply. In some cases, the gem families that include a precious stone in one color are considered semi-precious in another hue.
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Famous Opals The Olympic Australis is reported to be the largest and most valuable gem opal ever found. It was found in 1956 at the famous Eight Mile opal field in Coober Pedy, South Australia. A miner working his claim found the opal at a depth of 30 feet.
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Top 10 Most Expensive Diamonds in the World 9. The Moussaieff Red Diamond : $7 Million. The Moussaieff Red Diamond is 5.11 carats (1.022 g) diamond with a triangular brilliant cut that is rated as Fancy Red in colour by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA). Although Moussaieff is relatively small compared to other expensive diamonds, this is the largest fancy red ever rated by GIA. 8. The Heart of Eternity : $16 Million.
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Rubies & SapphiresâSparkling Reminders of Godâs Judgment Rubies are the world’s most expensive gemstones, the best Burmese rubies being valued more than an equivalent-sized flawless diamond. 1 The world record paid at auction for a ruby is U.S. $3.63 million in 1988 for a 15.97 carat Burmese ruby (U.S. $227,300 per carat).ubies and sapphires are the most important colored gemstones in the gem trade, together accounting for over 50% of global gem production. 1. Rubies are far less abundant than blue sapphires of similar quality and thus are of more value.
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The Gemstone Larimar Most Visited Gemstones. The Gemstone Larimar. Larimar is a blue variety of the mineral Pectolite. Pectolite is not a rare mineral and is found throughout the world, but the exquisite sea-blue color exhibited in the Larimar variety is very unique, and only comes from one place in the world.
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Type A Jade from Burma China. Few gems have the mystique of jade, a stone that has been revered in China for more than 4000 years. Jade is also one of the most misunderstood of gems -- there is widespread confusion about the types of jade, about the most valuable colors, and the standards used to grade it.
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- Ruby is the most valuable variety of the corundum mineral species, which also includes sapphire. Rubies can command the highest per-carat price of any colored stone. This makes ruby one of the most important gems in the colored stone market. In its purest form, the mineral corundum is colorless. Trace elements that become part of the mineral’s crystal structure cause variations in its color.