swap_horiz Dumortierite 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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Turquoise

Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that has been fashioned into jewelry for millennia, notably mined and trad...

Jewelry Opaque Blue Green Phosphate

7.3 Good

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Sugilite

Sugilite is a rare pink to purple cyclosilicate mineral first discovered in 1944 by Ken-ichi Sugi in Japan, and highly v...

Jewelry Rare Purple Opaque

7.2 Good

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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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Andalusite

Andalusite is an aluminum nesosilicate mineral named after Andalusia, Spain, known for its distinct pleochroism and chia...

Jewelry Pleochroic Silicate Multicolor

6.5 Fair

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Zircon

Zircon is a nesosilicate mineral highly regarded for its brilliant luster and high refractive index, with notable specim...

Natural Jewelry December Birthstone High Dispersion

6.3 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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Charoite

Charoite is a rare silicate mineral distinguished by its bright purple color and swirling patterns, officially named in...

Jewelry Purple Siberian Silicate

6.0 Fair

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Scapolite

Scapolite is a group of rock-forming silicate minerals frequently found in regional metamorphic rocks, noted for produci...

Varied Jewelry Silicate Yellow Purple

6.0 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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Malachite

Malachite is a green copper carbonate hydroxide mineral, historically mined in the Ural Mountains of Russia to create or...

Green Jewelry Banded Carbonate

5.5 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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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