Gem-quality idocrase is rare, and is usually green in color. Sphene is fairly soft at 5 to 5.5 on the Mohs scale. Colors range from orange and brown to yellow and green, with colorful flashes of a rainbow of hues. Sphene is a rare collector's stone famed for its high refractive index and exceptional fire. Typically a yellowish-greenish, faceted chrysoberyl makes an excellent jewelery stone. See our Collection of Fine Green FluoriteĬhrysoberyl is a very hard stone (8.5 on the Mohs scale) with impressive brilliance and luster. The blue-green hue tends to be vivid and bright. Though quite a soft material (4 on the Mohs scale) fluorite is a gem that is popular with collectors for its wide range of colors. They are typically translucent to opaque and green to yellowish-green in color. Some actinolite specimens display the cat's eye effect. Peridot can vary in color from yellow-green to apple-green to olive green.Īctinolite is a mineral family that includes nephrite jade. Peridot is green because it contains iron, and the depth of green depends on the percentage of iron in its crystal structure. Peridot is colored not by trace elements, but rather by its essential chemical composition. Especially fine specimens have considerable translucency. Typically a vivid greenish-blue coloerd by copper, the gem silica from Peru is a saturated bluish-green.Ĭhrysoprase, the apple-green variety of microcrystalline quartz, is one of the rarest members of the quartz family. The rarest and most expensive variety in the quartz family is a type of chalecedony known in the trade as gem silica. It has a hardness of 3.5 to 4 on the Mohs scale. Most specimens have minor inclusions of chromite and magnetite. Williamsite is a rare translucent or transparent form of antigorite serpentine with a jade-like color. See our Collection of Fine Chrome Chalcedony The most common colors are white to grayish-blue, but a rare green variety known as chrome chalcedony is colored by chromium. See our Collection of Fine Green TourmalineĬhalcedony is the name used for the microcrystalline variety of quartz. There is no other gemstone which is found in such a variety of green hues. Colors range from yellowish-green to blue-green and everything in between. Green is one of the most common, and most popular, of tourmaline colors. See our Collection of Fine Chrome Diopside Though chrome diopside has a saturated green that rivals tsavorite garnet and chrome tourmaline, it is a softer material (5 to 6 on the Mohs scale) so is not suitable for everyday rings. The green hues range from mint green to forest green, with yellow-green and blue-green quite common. Green sapphire is colored by traces of iron. Natural sapphire occurs in a wide range of colors, including green. See our Collection of Fine Chrome Tourmaline Found only in East Africa, in the same locations as tsavorite garnet, it is colored by chromium and vanadium. The most valuable demantoid comes from Russia and usually contains distinctive horsetail-shaped inclusions of chrysotile.Ī rare intense green tourmaline is known in the trade as chrome tourmaline. It is remarkable for its brilliance and fire. See our Collection of Fine Tsavorite Garnetĭemantoid, a green andradite garnet, is the rarest and most valuable of the garnets. The best tsavorites rival emerald for vivid color. Discovered only in the 1960's, it has thus far been found only in east Africa. Tsavorite garnet is a rare grossular garnet colored by chromium. Type A jadeite is untreated natural Burmese jadeite where the color is 100% natural. The rarest jadeite is known as Imperial Jade or Type A Jade, an emerald-green jade colored by chromium. Jadeite is the most valuable form of jade. Most emeralds have significant inclusions, and they are usually fracture-filled with oil or resin to fill surface-reaching fissures. It derives its unique bluish-green color from trace amounts of chromium and vanadium. We can set any of our fine Green Gemstones in a custom ring or pendant.Įmerald is the green variety of the mineral beryl. Click on a gem photo to view our collection in that variety. Here is a brief tour through the world of green gemstones, including some rare and less familiar gems. Green gems range in color from the bluish-green of emerald to the chrome green of tsavorite garnet and chrome tourmaine to the apple-green of peridot and the yellowish-green of sphene and chrysoberyl. Green hues are mainly due to traces of chromium and vanadium or iron. Green presents the most choices in colored stones, though many of the finest green gems - such as emerald, jade, and demantoid and tsavorite garnet - are quite rare and expensive.
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