Gemstone Colors & Info
Imperial Jasper - Imperial Jasper is a high quality fine jasper known for lovely orbicular patterns and interesting color contrasts of varying shades of pink, red, green, rust, and/or amber colors and usually has a soft pale exterior. It is found over a wide area in Guadalahara, Mexico.
Garnet - Garnet displays the greatest variety of color of any mineral, occurring in every color except blue.
· Hessonite garnet, also called ‘cinnamon stone’ can be found in shades of red, brown, and/or orange.
· Grossularite garnet created by Nature in many fine tones of yellow, green and brown and esteemed for its many fine interim hues and earth colors.
Apatite - Apatite is a naturally occurring beautiful gemstone. While it is known for its asparagus green hues, apatite actually can be found in a wide variety of colors ranging from colorless to pink, yellow, blue and violet. The name apatite comes from the Greek word “apate,” meaning “to deceive,” because it can be easily confused for a variety of other stones such as tourmaline, peridot and beryl. Some believe apatite fosters communication, concentration, clarity of thought and intellect. It is said to enhance one's insight, learning abilities and creativity, and to give increased self-confidence. It also is said to help achieve deeper states of meditation. Apatite is said to be useful to help improve one's coordination and to strengthen muscles, and to help suppress hunger and ease hypertension.
Labradorite - Known for a brilliant play of color and lustrous metallic tints of blue, green, yellow, red, gold and purple. It is named after the peninsula of Labrador in Canada.
Ametrine - Ametrine is a quartz crystal that contains amethyst and citrine. It is a bi-color gemstone including the violet of amethyst and the yellow of citrine.
Carnelian - Carnelian is a quartz crystal and a sub-variety of chalcedony. It is found in flesh-color to reddish brown to a uniform red.
Chalcedony - Chalcedony represents a family of fine-grained (cryptocrystalline) quartz crystals including agate, chyrsoprase, bloodstone, jasper, carnelian, moss agate, onyx, and sard, as well as one variety known specifically as chalcedony. The actual chalcedony stone itself is bluish-white-gray.
Citrine - Citrine is a quartz crystal. While its name refers to a lemon yellow color, citrine can be found in a range of yellows from light yellow to dark yellow and golden brown.
Fluorite - Fluorite or fluorspar is a mineral gemstone. Its wide range of colors includes the popular purple, blue, green, and yellow. It also comes in colorless, brown, pink, black and a rare reddish orange. Some fluorite appear banded with a variety of beautiful bright colors.
Iolite - It exhibits a blue-to-violet range of colors and sometimes shows a brownish streak.
Quartz - Quartz is one of the most common gem families and can be found all around the world. Quartz comprises several different groups of gems from crystalline quartz (crystals viewable by the naked eye) and crypto-crystalline (microscopic crystals). Crystalline quartz includes amethyst, aventurine, rock crystal, blue quartz, citrine, hawk’s eye, prasiolite, quartz cat’s eye, smoky quartz, rose quartz, and tiger’s eye. Crypto-crystalline quartz is also known as chalcedony and includes agate, bloodstone, carnelian, chyrsoprase, jasper, moss agate, onyx and sard.
Tourmaline - Tourmaline is a fascinating mineral that can actually exhibit two or more colors in one crystal. It possesses one of the widest color ranges, reproducing every conceivable color in the universe.
Turquoise - Turquoise comes in a range of blues from light to blue-green with the most popular being the intense sky blues and robin's egg blues to blue-green and apple-green. Literally meaning "Turkish stone", turquoise once came to Western Europe through Turkey. Some cultures consider it a "lucky stone" and a symbol of courage, success and love.