swap_horiz Blue Spinel Alternatives

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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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Benitoite

Benitoite is a rare blue barium titanium cyclosilicate mineral that was first discovered in 1907 in San Benito County, C...

Blue Jewelry Rare Barium Titanium

8.5 Great

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Color Change Spinel

Color change spinel is a rare variety of the spinel gemstone that exhibits a distinct shift in its primary hue depending...

Jewelry Rare Color Change Alexandrite Effect

8.5 Great

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Pink Spinel

Pink spinel is a variety of the mineral spinel (magnesium aluminum oxide) that derives its color from trace amounts of c...

Pink Jewelry Pastel Myanmar

8.3 Great

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Indicolite Tourmaline

Indicolite is the blue to blue-green color variety of elbaite, a species in the tourmaline mineral group. Its color is a...

Blue Jewelry Tourmaline Pleochroic

8.1 Great

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Lapis Lazuli

Lapis lazuli is an opaque blue metamorphic rock rather than a single mineral. It is an aggregate dominated by lazurite,...

Blue Jewelry Ancient Metamorphic

6.8 Fair

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Zircon

Zircon is a naturally occurring mineral composed mainly of zirconium silicate, with the chemical formula ZrSiO4. It crys...

Natural Jewelry December Birthstone High Dispersion

6.3 Fair

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Shattuckite

Shattuckite is a rare copper silicate hydroxide mineral that commonly forms in oxidized zones of copper deposits. It is...

Blue Arizona Jewelry Opaque

6.3 Fair

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Lazurite

Lazurite is a blue mineral in the sodalite group and one of the principal components of lapis lazuli, the blue ornamenta...

Blue Jewelry Ancient Sulfur

6.3 Fair

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Larimar

Larimar is a blue to blue-green variety of pectolite, a calcium sodium silicate mineral. The color is associated with co...

Blue Jewelry Rare Caribbean

5.8 Mediocre

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Azurite

Azurite is a basic copper carbonate mineral recognized by its deep blue to blue-black color and commonly opaque appearan...

Blue Jewelry Vivid Opaque

5.5 Mediocre

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Blue Topaz

Blue topaz is the blue variety of topaz, a fluorine- and aluminum-bearing silicate mineral used as a gemstone. Most blue...

Blue Popular Jewelry Topaz

5.5 Mediocre

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Kyanite

Kyanite is an aluminosilicate mineral with the chemical formula Al2SiO5. It is distinguished by strong directional varia...

Blue Jewelry Silicate Anisotropic

5.3 Mediocre

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Celestite

Celestite is a mineral composed of strontium sulfate and is named for its pale sky-blue color, although it can also occu...

Blue Collector Jewelry Crystals

5.3 Mediocre

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Afghanite

Afghanite is a rare blue to colorless feldspathoid mineral in the cancrinite-sodalite group. It was first identified in...

Blue Jewelry Rare Afghanistan

5.0 Mediocre

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Chalcedony

Chalcedony is a cryptocrystalline or microcrystalline form of silica composed mainly of intergrown quartz and moganite....

Blue Jewelry Translucent Waxy

4.8 Poor

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Dumortierite

Dumortierite is a fibrous aluminum borosilicate mineral that commonly forms columnar crystals or parallel aggregates. It...

Blue Jewelry Opaque Silicate

4.8 Poor

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Gahnite

Gahnite is the zinc-rich spinel-group mineral with the ideal formula ZnAl2O4. It was described from the Falun mine in Sw...

Blue Collector Jewelry Rare

4.8 Poor

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Plancheite

Plancheite is a rare hydrated copper silicate mineral with the ideal formula Cu8Si8O22(OH)4·H2O. It is typically pale to...

Blue Jewelry Rare Fibrous

4.5 Poor

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Sodalite

Sodalite is a blue to blue-violet tectosilicate mineral in the feldspathoid group, with an ideal composition of Na4Al3Si...

Blue Affordable Jewelry Opaque

4.2 Poor