swap_horiz Lapis Lazuli 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

Blue spinel is a naturally occurring magnesium aluminum mineral prized as a gemstone for its vitreous luster and durabil...

Natural Blue Jewelry Spinel

8.6 Great

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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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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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Turquoise

Turquoise is an opaque blue-to-green mineral and a hydrated phosphate of copper and aluminium. It has been used as an or...

Jewelry Opaque Blue Green Phosphate

7.3 Good

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Sugilite

Sugilite is a rare purple to pink manganese-bearing cyclosilicate mineral, usually found as opaque masses rather than tr...

Jewelry Rare Purple Opaque

7.2 Good

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Amber

Amber is a fossilized natural resin, usually derived from ancient trees, rather than a mineral formed by crystallization...

Organic Warm Jewelry Ancient

6.8 Fair

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Coral

Coral is an organic gemstone material formed from the calcareous skeletons of marine coral organisms. Red and pink varie...

Organic Marine Jewelry Ancient

6.8 Fair

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Hessonite Garnet

Hessonite garnet is a transparent to translucent variety of grossular garnet, a calcium aluminum silicate mineral. It co...

Jewelry Ancient Cinnamon Orange Brown

6.5 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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Malachite

Malachite is a green copper carbonate hydroxide mineral with the chemical formula Cu2CO3(OH)2. It commonly forms opaque,...

Green Jewelry Banded Carbonate

5.5 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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Carnelian

Carnelian is a translucent variety of chalcedony, a microcrystalline form of quartz, with colors ranging from orange and...

Warm Jewelry Ancient Orange Red

5.4 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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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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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