The following is a list of Spangled gems and minerals listed in our database. Click the pictures to get full data, click the X to remove the gem from the list.
Sunstone: In its raw form, sunstone forms as translucent to transparent crystals with distinct cleavage planes and a vitreous luster. The unpolished specimens display copper platelets that catch light even through the rough surface, creating scattered copper-red flashes. Once cut and polished, sunstone truly comes alive - skilled lapidaries often favor oval or cushion cuts that maximize the stone's aventure (read full)
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Azurite is a gorgeous stone that when polished into a sphere may look very much like the planet earth. It's blues, and greens look like
Sapphire is the blue variety of Corundum.
Sapphires can be a very dark blue, to the point of seeming dense and blackish from a distanc
Ruby is the most valuable variety of Corundum.
The color varies from fiery vermilion to violet red, but because rubies are pleochroic,
Carnelian is a variety of chalcedony, which is translucent and is red to reddish-brown. It may also occur as flesh-colored chalcedony,