![]() Beautiful though they are, the green precious stones are less commonly used in jewelry compared to the other colors of sapphire. While commonly thought of as blue in color, sapphires also occur as black, yellow and green gemstones. Sapphires belong to a group of minerals called corundum along with ruby, or the red sapphire. Source: Rob Lavinsky, – CC-BY-SA-3.0 Green Sapphire The green stones are very rare, and accordingly more expensive. Beside yellow and red, sphene also occurs as green gemstones, usually with yellow undertone. Source: Carles Millan via Wikimedia Commons Green SpheneĪlso called titanite for its titanium content, sphene is a stone with brilliance that can exceed diamond, though of far lower hardness compared to the latter. Like yellow spinels, the green gemstones are also quite rare, and hence only mostly availed of as collector’s pieces. Glassy to dull in luster, the green gems are gray or dark in intensity, and indeed not very suitable for jewelry. Green Spinelīeside red, black, yellow and white, spinels also occur as green stones. Another variety of opal named hyalite also produces green rocks. The green gemstones are also found in Peru. ![]() Most of the green gems come from Australia. Green fire against white background is the most common of the precious opals green against black body tone is much more valuable. Source: Opalcutters23 via Wikimedia Commons Green Opalīeside white, black, red and yellow, precious opal also occurs as green stones, or white/black stones that display a play of color involving green. The name serendibite comes from Serendib, the old Arabic name for Sri Lanka, from which the precious green gemstones were solely found. The green gems are attractively bright and transparent. Serendibite is an extremely rare gemstone, much more so the green stones, which were the only serendibite known in existence until 2005, when the black variety was discovered. A tourmaline that is green on one end and pink on the other is called watermelon tourmaline. Another highly valuable variety of the green jewels is chrome tourmaline, which is richly green due to the presence of chromium. Both green gemstones are sourced from Brazil, from which a newly discovered, brightly colored indicolite called Paraiba tourmaline has risen to popularity, and is the most expensive of the green rocks. The green gemstones come the species of tourmaline called elbaite, which is further divided into two varieties: verdelite and indicolite, the latter also available in blue. Source: Rob Lavinsky, – CC-BY-SA-3.0 Green Tourmalineīeside black, red (rubellites) and yellow, tourmalines also occur as green stones. Garnet is general is the traditional and modern birthstone for the month of January in the Western calendar, as well as the zodiac sign Aquarius. Color-changing varieties of garnet also exist. ![]() Grossular garnet also produces green rocks, while uvarovite, one of the rarest garnet species, are beautiful and consistently green gems. The andradite species is further divided into the varieties topazolite and demantoid, which is the most expensive of garnets. The green gemstones come from three different garnet species. Source: Rob Lavinsky, – CC-BY-SA-3.0 Green Garnetīeside red, yellow and black, garnets also occur as green stones. Along with pearl and moonstone, alexandrite is the modern birthstone for the month of June in the US. Other varieties of alexandrite may give off yellow or pink during the day. Alexandrite from Russia consists of green gemstones that at night, under incandescent light, shift to red in color. Different varieties of alexandrite produce different colors. Source: Alfonso via Wikimedia Commons AlexandriteĪlexandrite is a color-changing variety of chrysoberyl. The same faceted piece of alexandrite changing color from green to pink The green gemstones are the traditional and modern birthstone for the month of May, both in the Western and Hindu calendar, as well as the birthstone for the zodiac sign Cancer. Perfectly smooth and transparent pieces of the green precious stones, which are very hard to come by, are indeed quite valuable. The name emerald comes from the Greek smaragdos, which literally means “green gem.” The precious green stones are prone to inclusions, as well as surface fissures. Source: Eva Kröcher, CC-BY-SA, via Wikimedia Commons EmeraldĮxclusively green stones, emeralds are part of a group of minerals called beryl, which is also available in yellow, black and red. Just like the chemically unrelated variety of jade, nephrite, jadeite is also available in white. Jadeite is the most expensive variety of jade stones, and is most popularly known to occur as green stones of various shades, the most valuable being the translucent and intensely green gemstones. Source: Ra’ike via Wikimedia Commons Green Jadeite THE GREEN DIAMOND : A Lesser-Known Rarity.
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