Learn about morganite's durability and how to care for your morganite jewelry.

Learn about the factors that make moonstone so desirable.

A review of Diamonds: An Early History of the King of Gems by Jack Ogden.

Review of Figures & Faces: The Art of Jewelry by Patrick Mauriès and Évelyne Possémé

Review of Geology: A Very Short Introduction by Jan Zalasiewicz.

Review of Masterpieces in Miniature: Engraved Gems from Prehistory to the Present by John Boardman and Claudia Wagner.

Review of Symphony of Jewels: Anna Hu Opus 2 by Janet Zapata with Sarah Davis.

Learn about the factors that make rose quartz so desirable.

Rose quartz jewelry was known to be crafted by the Assyrians around 800-600 BC. The Assyrians, along with the Romans, might have been the first to use this stone.

Rose quartz is one of the many quartz varieties used as a gem material. It gets its name from its delicate pink color, which ranges from very light (almost white) to medium-dark.

Learn about the factors that make sunstone so desirable.

In the early 1800s sunstone was a little-known, rare, and costly gemstone. It wasn’t until finds in Norway, Siberia, and other parts of the world that sunstone became somewhat more widely recognized, more available, and less expensive.

Not all feldspars that bear the name “sunstone” are from the same side of the feldspar family—both the orthoclase and the plagioclase species boast a sunstone feldspar variety. The name sunstone refers to the gem’s appearance rather than to its chemical makeup.

This silicate of aluminum, iron, and magnesium has two distinctive features—a beautiful, violetish blue through slightly violetish blue hue derived from iron and a striking, eye-visible pleochroism.

Iolite has a long history of use as an adornment and possibly as a navigation tool.

Modern gemologists use the word “jade” as a generic term for both nephrite and jadeite. These minerals have been linked throughout history.

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