swap_horiz Smithsonite Alternatives

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Pigeon's Blood Ruby

Pigeon's blood describes a prized vivid-red appearance in ruby, rather than a separate mineral species. Ruby is red coru...

Jewelry Myanmar Corundum Vivid Red

9.11 Excellent

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Diamond

Diamond is a crystalline form of carbon whose atomic structure gives it the highest scratch hardness among natural miner...

Jewelry Carbon Precious Colorless

9.06 Excellent

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Royal Blue Sapphire

A Royal Blue Sapphire is a highly prized member of the corundum family, renowned for its intense blue hue. Kashmir sapph...

Jewelry Kashmir Corundum Royal Blue

8.92 Great

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Padparadscha Sapphire

A Padparadscha sapphire is a unique variety of corundum distinguished by its delicate pink-orange hue resembling a lotus...

Jewelry Rare Corundum Pink Orange

8.83 Great

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Musgravite

First identified in Australia's Musgrave Ranges, musgravite is a rare mineral of the taaffeite group that can be fashion...

Jewelry Beryllium Ultra Rare Gray Green

8.83 Great

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Cornflower Blue Sapphire

The Cornflower Blue Sapphire is a variety of sapphire prized for its delicate blue hue reminiscent of the flower’s color...

Classic Jewelry Corundum Cornflower

8.83 Great

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Grandidierite

Grandidierite is a borosilicate gemstone notable for its intense blue-green color and unique pleochroism – displaying di...

Jewelry Rare Borosilicate Madagascar

8.10 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

7.64 Good

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Merelani Mint Garnet

Merelani mint garnet is a pale green to yellow-green variety of grossular garnet, named for its distinct mint-like color...

Jewelry Pastel Tanzania Grossular

7.54 Good

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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

6.67 Fair

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Andean Opal

Andean opal is a trade name for blue, green, or blue-green common opal from Peru. Unlike precious opal, it generally doe...

Peru Translucent Blue Green Opal

6.54 Fair

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Morganite

Morganite is a pink to peach variety of beryl, the same mineral family that includes emerald and aquamarine. Its color i...

Pink Romantic Jewelry Pastel

6.53 Fair

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Fluorapatite

Fluorapatite is a phosphate mineral whose chemical structure contains calcium, phosphate, and fluoride. It belongs to th...

Varied Jewelry Fluorescent Blue Green

5.89 Mediocre

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Apatite

Apatite is the name used for a group of phosphate minerals, including fluorapatite, chlorapatite, and hydroxylapatite. I...

Jewelry Neon Fluorescent Blue Green

5.52 Mediocre

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Kunzite

Kunzite is a pink, lilac, or violet variety of spodumene, a lithium aluminum silicate mineral that also occurs in colorl...

Jewelry Pastel Pink Violet Spodumene

5.38 Mediocre

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Rose Quartz

Rose quartz is a pink variety of quartz used chiefly as an ornamental stone and gemstone. Its color is generally attribu...

Pink Jewelry Quartz Translucent

4.78 Poor

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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

4.42 Poor

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Prehnite

Prehnite is an orthorhombic calcium aluminosilicate mineral with the formula Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2. It was described in 1788...

Green Pale Jewelry Translucent

4.19 Poor

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Rosasite

Rosasite is a secondary copper-zinc carbonate hydroxide mineral with the approximate formula (Cu,Zn)2CO3(OH)2. It common...

Jewelry Rare Blue Green Copper Zinc

4.14 Poor

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Chrysocolla

Chrysocolla is a blue, green, or blue-green hydrous copper silicate that forms as a secondary mineral in the leached and...

Jewelry Southwest Copper Opaque

3.96 Poor