The following is a list of Beads gems and minerals listed in our database. Click the pictures to get full data, click the X to remove the gem from the list.
Amazonite: Amazonite is a blue-green variety of microcline feldspar, named after the Amazon River (though ironically not found there). Its distinctive color comes from lead and water content. Popular in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central/South America, it's now mainly mined in Colorado, Brazil, and Russia. The stone displays white streaks and can range from bright turquoise to deep green-blue. (read full)
Emerald: Emerald is the most prized variety of the mineral Beryl. It sometimes fetches higher prices than diamond. It appears as pale green to bright green. Though it is the green variety of beryl, not all gem-quality green beryls are called emeralds; yellow-green stones are called "heliodors;"soft blue-green or even pale green specimens are called "aquamarines." The typical color of emerald is a bea (read full)
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Sphalerite is a zinc iron sulfide mineral formed in an isometric system. It is trimorphous with wurtzite and matraite. All three have t
In its raw form, sunstone forms as translucent to transparent crystals with distinct cleavage planes and a vitreous luster. The unpolis
Larimar is a rare blue variety of pectolite found only in the Dominican Republic. Its distinctive sky-blue color comes from copper subs
Hypersthene is an important iron-rich orthopyroxene in the Pyroxene group with an orthorhombic crystal system. Other orthopyroxenes for