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Diamond

Diamonds are crystalline structures composed entirely of pure carbon. Their exceptional hardness—the highest among known...

Jewelry Carbon Precious Colorless

9.9 Brilliant

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Crystal Opal

Crystal opal is a transparent to semi-translucent variety of precious opal characterized by its lack of body tone, which...

Transparent Jewelry Brilliant Play Of Color

8.4 Great

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White Opal

White opal is a variety of precious opal characterized by a white, milky, or light-colored base tone upon which internal...

Jewelry Milky Common Opal

7.5 Good

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Golden Beryl

Golden beryl is a transparent yellow to golden variety of the mineral beryl, the same mineral family that includes emera...

Transparent Warm Jewelry Yellow

7.4 Good

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White Sapphire

White Sapphire is a colorless corundum variety entirely free of chromophore impurities, historically used as a diamond s...

Jewelry Hard Colorless Corundum

7.0 Good

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Rutilated Quartz

Rutilated quartz is a transparent variety of quartz distinguished by needle-like inclusions of rutile, highly valued in...

Jewelry Quartz Golden Inclusions

7.0 Good

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Phenakite

Phenakite, also spelled phenacite, is a beryllium silicate mineral with the chemical formula Be2SiO4. It commonly forms...

Collector Rare Colorless Silicate

7.0 Good

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Fire Opal

Fire Opal is a transparent to translucent opal with a warm orange, yellow, or red body color, predominantly mined in Mex...

Transparent Jewelry Mexican Opal

6.8 Fair

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Ametrine

Ametrine is a naturally occurring bicolored variety of quartz that displays both purple amethyst and yellow citrine, alm...

Jewelry Quartz Bolivian Bicolor

6.8 Fair

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Cerussite

Cerussite is lead carbonate, a mineral formed mainly in the oxidized zones of lead-bearing ore deposits. It crystallizes...

Collector Carbonate Colorless High Dispersion

6.8 Fair

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Spodumene

A lithium aluminum pyroxene mineral yielding the gem varieties kunzite (pink-purple) and hiddenite (green), and serving...

Transparent Jewelry Lithium Yellow Green

6.7 Fair

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Hambergite

Hambergite is a rare beryllium borate mineral first described in 1883 by the Norwegian mineralogist W. C. Brøgger. It wa...

Collector Rare Colorless Borate

6.7 Fair

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Aventurine

A translucent quartz variety distinguished by reflective inclusions, usually fuchsite mica, producing a glittering effec...

Affordable Popular Semi Precious Quartz

6.4 Fair

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Tourmalinated Quartz

Tourmalinated quartz is a transparent variety of quartz containing dark needle-like inclusions of black tourmaline, mine...

Jewelry Quartz Graphic Inclusions

6.1 Fair

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Citrine

Citrine is a transparent yellow to orange variety of quartz, widely utilized in jewelry since ancient Roman times and cu...

Affordable Jewelry Yellow Quartz

6.0 Fair

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Blue Aventurine

A blue variety of aventurine quartz whose color and metallic sheen derive from inclusions of dumortierite or other blue...

Affordable Popular Semi Precious Quartz

6.0 Fair

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Hyalite Opal

A colorless, glass-clear opal variety that fluoresces vivid green under ultraviolet light due to trace uranium content,...

Glass Like Jewelry Fluorescent Colorless

5.9 Mediocre

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Achroite

Colorless variety of tourmaline; rarer than its colored counterparts, occurring in pegmatites in Madagascar, Brazil, and...

Transparent Collector Rare Tourmaline

5.8 Mediocre

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Goshenite

Goshenite is the pure colorless variety of beryl, named after Goshen, Massachusetts, where it was first identified, and...

Transparent Jewelry Pure Colorless

5.5 Mediocre

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Sanidine

Sanidine is a high-temperature potassium feldspar mineral first described in 1808, notable for its glassy appearance and...

Transparent Jewelry Volcanic Colorless

4.5 Poor