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Original丨10 Gems in The World That Are More Precious Than Diamonds !

Apr 21, 2023

No.1

Red beryl



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Beryl, also known as Bixbite, is a rare gemstone whose intense color is caused by the manganese inside the gemstone. The natural red-peach green jade discovered so far is mainly distributed in the rhyolites of Mount Thomas and Mount Wowo, Utah, USA. Red beryl was first mentioned in 1904, when

Mineral experts believe that it is similar to jade and sapphire, so it is also called red jade and blood jade, but in fact it is even rarer than these two kinds of gems. Red beryl is only distributed in Utah and New Mexico, USA; due to mining ten

Difficulty, red beryl has not made the economic value of jewelry. To mine 1 carat of red beryl, it costs 10,000 U.S. dollars (about 300,000 Taiwan dollars). It is not surprising that it is so precious and rare.


No.2

Boronite (Jeremejevite)

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Boronite is a rare blue borate mineral, the most famous place of origin is Namibia, Africa. The color of boehmite is blue, white and colorless. The known mining areas are only in the Tajik section of the Pamirs and Africa.

Several small mines in Mibia and the Eifel Mountain in Germany are extremely rare. Boronite was first produced in 1883 by Mt. Soktui, Nerschinsk

Found in the Adun-Chilon Mountains of Siberia. And by Soviet miner Pavel Vladimirovich Eremeev

(1830–1899) naming.


No.3


Musgravite.

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Beryldite was first discovered in South Australia in 1967 and named after the Musgrave mountain range in Australia. Later, a small amount of mineral samples were found in Greenland, Madagascar, and Antarctica.

Until 2005, only 8 gems with obvious shapes and pure colors were cut in the world. A jewelry export company in Sri Lanka owns the largest Musgravite gemstone in the world, 2007

On September 6, 2015, the Gübelin Laboratory in Lucerne, Switzerland, tested and issued a certificate with the certificate number 0707330.


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No.4

Red diamonds.

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Red diamonds are also called light rhodolites. Red diamonds are the rarest varieties of colored diamonds. Australia’s AEGYLE MINE produces a small amount of red diamonds "Musayev" red diamonds (the

Moussaieff Red)

The largest red diamond in the world. The world’s largest red diamond was discovered by a farmer in Brazil in 1960. This diamond is called the Moussaieff red diamond (the Moussaieff

Red). It is triangular in shape and weighs 5.11 carats. Although the weight of this diamond is not worth mentioning compared with other diamonds, it is the largest diamond among red diamonds, and its value is much higher than its weight.

quantity. A 0.95k carat round red diamond sold at auction in New York in April 1987 by Christie’s Hong Kong (chrISTLE’S) sold for as high as US$880,000, or an average price of 920,000 per carat.

U.S. dollars, setting a world record for the highest transaction price per carat for colored diamonds at auction.


No.5

Grandidierite.

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Although the first complete specimen of schoenite was produced in Sri Lanka, it was only found on the island of Madagascar in Africa. Like the alexandrite and tanzanite mentioned below, magnesia has the characteristic of reflecting colorful polarized light.


No.6

Poudretteite.

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Sinalite was first discovered in Quebec, Canada in the mid-1960s, but it was not given a name at the time; it was not considered a new mineral name until 1987. But because it is too scarce, selenoite is rarely discussed.

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No.7

Benitoite.

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When blue cone ore was discovered in 1906, it was once mistaken for sapphire. At present, the only place of origin of blue cone ore is St. Bailey County, California, USA. Although blue cone ore samples have also been found in Arkansas and Japan, it is difficult to remove blue cone ore.

They are cut into gems. Blue cone ore is light blue or colorless, and there has been a record of pink gems; however, the most special feature of blue cone ore is that it emits dazzling blue fluorescence under ultraviolet light.


No.8

Tanzanite

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Tanzanite, named after its place of origin, Tanzania, East Africa, was promoted by Tiffany Company in the United States, and this gem gradually gained popularity. The reason why it was named Tanzanite is also because this gem is like

The twilight sky in Tanzania is the same, the color is dark blue with purple, and it has strong pleochroism, but the hardness of the gem itself is 6.5 degrees on the Mohs scale, and because Tanzania has been in a civil war for a long time, it is very poor.

The mining of gems is not easy, the output is scarce, and the crystallized particles are not large, so in general, the probability of being able to buy more than 3 to 5 carats is not high, so the price remains high. So far, Tanzania

The area around the city of Arusha is the only producing area of tanzanite. The Minister of Mines of Tanzania said that this is a gift from God to the Tanzanian people.


No.9


Alexandrite

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The English name of alexandrite is Alexandrite, and the Russian name is "Александрит", which is transliterated as "Alexandrite". It is one of the five precious gems and belongs to the discoloration of chrysoberyl

Variety. Because it has the discoloration effect of green in the sun and red in the light of candles and incandescent lamps, many poets praised alexandrite as "emeralds in the day and rubies in the night". When putting an alexandrite chameleon

When playing in the hand, as it rotates, it will refract colorful polarized light. On October 23, 2007, the Hong Kong Christie's Jewelry and Jade Jewelry Auction Preview, the model showed a giant cat's eye of 212.76 carats

Alexandra Rock. The agency introduced this as the largest cat's eye alexandrite in auction history, with an estimated price of 7.85 million Hong Kong dollars-12 million Hong Kong dollars.


No.10


Painite

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A new gem mineral discovered in a gem placer in the Mogok region of Myanmar in 1951, and based on the British mineralogist Arthur C. D. Pain (Arthur C. D. Pain)

The specific chemical composition of the mineral is unclear, and the mineral is a transparent dark red crystal. At present, there is only one specimen weighing 1.7 grams in Pain's collection. In 1957, it was recognized internationally as a new gem mine

Species, and was listed as the rarest gem mineral in the Guinness World Records in 2005. Until 2005, only 25 samples were found worldwide. However, due to the new identification technology, the number of alboronite crystals has also increased.

Plus, but the number of gems that can be cut into high-quality gems is still very small.


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