swap_horiz Celestite 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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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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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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Indicolite Tourmaline

Indicolite is a rare blue variety of elbaite tourmaline, highly prized for its saturated hues and commercially mined in...

Blue Jewelry Tourmaline Pleochroic

8.1 Great

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Lapis Lazuli

Lapis lazuli is a deep-blue metamorphic rock prized for millennia, notably mined in the Sar-e-Sang deposits of Afghanist...

Blue Jewelry Ancient Metamorphic

6.8 Fair

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Shattuckite

Shattuckite is a rare copper silicate hydroxide mineral notable for its vibrant blue color, discovered in 1915 and named...

Blue Arizona Jewelry Opaque

6.3 Fair

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Lazurite

Lazurite is a deep blue sodium calcium aluminum silicate mineral first described in 1890, historically the primary compo...

Blue Jewelry Ancient Sulfur

6.3 Fair

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Dioptase

Dioptase is an intense emerald-green copper cyclosilicate mineral noted for its high luster, formally described in 1797...

Jewelry Vivid Crystals Emerald Green

6.1 Fair

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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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Kornerupine Cat's Eye

Kornerupine cat's eye is a rare boro-silicate gemstone exhibiting chatoyancy, first discovered in 1884 in Greenland and...

Collector Jewelry Rare Chatoyant

5.8 Mediocre

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Cavansite

Cavansite is a striking blue calcium vanadium silicate mineral discovered in 1967, notable for its rarity and occurrence...

India Jewelry Crystals Vivid Blue

5.6 Mediocre

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Azurite

Azurite is a deep-blue copper carbonate mineral historically ground into a pigment used in Renaissance paintings, and na...

Blue Jewelry Vivid Opaque

5.5 Mediocre

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Blue Topaz

Blue Topaz is a topaz variety most commonly produced by irradiating and heat-treating colorless topaz, with natural blue...

Blue Popular Jewelry Topaz

5.5 Mediocre

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Kyanite

Kyanite is an aluminosilicate mineral notable for exhibiting two distinct hardnesses depending on the axis, and it is wi...

Blue Jewelry Silicate Anisotropic

5.3 Mediocre

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Tremolite

Tremolite is a calcium magnesium amphibole mineral first described in 1789, notable for producing the rare green gemston...

Collector Jewelry Rare Amphibole

5.0 Mediocre

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Afghanite

Afghanite is a rare tectosilicate mineral first discovered in 1968 in Afghanistan, notable for its vivid blue color and...

Blue Jewelry Rare Afghanistan

5.0 Mediocre

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Chalcedony

Chalcedony is a cryptocrystalline form of silica composed of microscopic quartz and moganite, utilized historically for...

Blue Jewelry Translucent Waxy

4.8 Poor

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Dumortierite

Dumortierite is a fibrous aluminum borosilicate mineral first described in 1881 from specimens found in France, prized f...

Blue Jewelry Opaque Silicate

4.8 Poor

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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