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Blue Diamond

Blue diamonds are highly prized gemstones characterized by their intense blue color. This coloration arises from minute...

Blue Fancy Color Rare Diamond

9.8 Brilliant

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Padparadscha Sapphire

A Padparadscha sapphire is a unique variety of corundum distinguished by its delicate pink-orange hue resembling a lotus...

Jewelry Rare Corundum Pink Orange

9.6 Brilliant

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Blue Sapphire

A blue sapphire is a highly valued gemstone derived from corundum. Its intense blue color arises from trace elements wit...

Blue Jewelry Precious Corundum

9.5 Brilliant

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Paraiba Tourmaline

Paraiba tourmaline is a rare variety of tourmaline distinguished by its intense neon blue to green coloration. This colo...

Jewelry Rare Brazilian Neon Blue

9.4 Excellent

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Alexandrite

Alexandrite is a rare chrysoberyl gemstone notable for its intense color change. The stone shifts from green to red-purp...

Jewelry Rare Color Change Chrysoberyl

9.2 Excellent

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Demantoid Garnet

Demantoid garnet is a rare gemstone belonging to the andradite group. It’s notable for its exceptionally high dispersion...

Green Jewelry Rare High Dispersion

9.1 Excellent

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Conch Pearl

A conch pearl originates from the Queen conch mollusk found in the Caribbean Sea. These rare gemstones are notable for t...

Pink Organic Jewelry Rare

9.1 Excellent

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Cat's Eye Chrysoberyl

Cat’s Eye Chrysoberyl is a rare gemstone exhibiting cymophane, producing a luminous effect when viewed in darkness. This...

Jewelry Rare Honey Chatoyancy

8.9 Great

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Grandidierite

Grandidierite is a borosilicate gemstone notable for its intense blue-green color and unique pleochroism – displaying di...

Jewelry Rare Borosilicate Madagascar

8.8 Great

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Color Change Sapphire

A color-change sapphire is a rare variety of corundum exhibiting a distinctive optical phenomenon. The gemstone’s hue sh...

Jewelry Rare Color Change Corundum

8.7 Great

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Blue Spinel

A variety of spinel colored blue by iron or cobalt impurities, found in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and Vietnam, valued as a nat...

Natural Blue Jewelry Spinel

8.6 Great

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Color Change Garnet

Color change garnet is a rare variety that shifts hues under different lighting, with significant high-quality deposits...

Jewelry Rare Color Change Garnet

8.5 Great

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Benitoite

Benitoite is a rare blue silicate mineral designated as the official state gemstone of California in 1985 due to its dis...

Blue Jewelry Rare Barium Titanium

8.5 Great

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Color Change Spinel

A rare spinel that shifts color under different light sources—typically blue-gray in daylight to purple under incandesce...

Jewelry Rare Color Change Alexandrite Effect

8.5 Great

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Chrome Tourmaline

Chrome tourmaline is an intensely green elbaite variety colored by chromium and vanadium, found almost exclusively in th...

Jewelry Rare Chromium Tanzanian

8.2 Great

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Larimar

Larimar is a rare blue variety of the mineral pectolite, found only in the Dominican Republic and originally discovered...

Blue Jewelry Rare Caribbean

5.8 Mediocre

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Gahnite

A zinc aluminum oxide mineral of the spinel group first described in 1807 and named after Swedish chemist Johan Gottlieb...

Blue Collector Jewelry Rare

4.8 Poor

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Plancheite

Plancheite is a hydrated copper silicate mineral first described in 1908, notable for its blue color and fibrous crystal...

Blue Jewelry Rare Fibrous

4.5 Poor

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Sodalite

Sodalite is a rich blue chloride-containing tectosilicate mineral, first discovered in Greenland in 1811, and historical...

Blue Affordable Jewelry Opaque

4.2 Poor

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Leucite

A potassium aluminosilicate found in potassium-rich volcanic rocks, notably in Italy's Roman volcanic province, rarely f...

Jewelry Rare Volcanic Feldspathoid

4.2 Poor