It has a hardness of 7 to 7 5 on the mohs scale making quite suitable for jewelry wear.
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Aquamarine prices can vary widely depending on the size and quality of the stone.
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The stone can change color based on the light it is viewed under morphing from blue green to deep purple.
Blue gemstones in jewelry.
Smoky quartz is also present in the blue rock which is found in nambia africa.
As with most blue gemstones stones that are a darker more vivid blue are generally more expensive and rarer than light blue stones.
Aquamarine is a popular gemstone and is used in many types of jewelry although rings are often the most popular way for them to be set.
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Iolite is known to exhibit pronounced pleochroism often displaying violet blue yellow gray and light blue all in the same stone depending on the angle from which it is viewed.
Blue garnets rank 6 5 to 7 on the mohs scale.
On the basis of dollars spent in the united states sapphire is the most popular blue stone and the third most popular colored stone after emerald and ruby.
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This blue stone is made up of shattuckite chrysocolla dioptase and malachite which are responsible for the patches of royal blue light blue dark green and light green respectively.
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While people have adorned themselves with blue stones for centuries the quality and variety available today are unsurpassed.
Sapphire is a gem variety of the mineral corundum when corundum is reddish blue to violet blue it is known simply as sapphire corundums of any other color except red which is ruby are known as fancy sapphire.
Read on to learn how to assess quality in blue gemstones from popular and well known species to rarely seen specimens.
This is due to the inclusion of vanadium in the stone.
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There are also much lighter or softer blue stones with the most common of the lighter stones being topaz and aquamarine.
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Iolite is a transparent gemstone quality form of the mineral cordierite.
Nevertheless blue gemstones are always in demand for jewelry.