Gems and precious stones to collect
Posts tagged Briolette
Smoked quartz and cuts various carats
Dec 14th
Here are other splendid specimens taken from my personal collection of gems and precious stones I would like to sell. In this article I show you some splendid specimens of gems and precious stones, belonging to the family of Quartz, in particular it is gem smoked quartz also known as Smoky Quartz, What if I am not mistaken it is cataloged under the name Morion When is tending to black. This gem features like all quartz for its transparent and glassy luster and extremely dark color, that intense Brown up to black in some specimens (these sayings Morion). In the pictures you can see some examples that can be used for both for related material for the use in ’ jewellery, Remember that the Quartz It has a hardness equal to 7 on the Mohs scale It lends itself very well to be embedded.
Briolette cut from natural aquamarine 11,90 Carat
Oct 21st
I know that many of you are there lovers of ’ Aquamarine, a really nice, belonging to the family of Beryl, After the ’ last oval gem from ben 2,70 Carat Here is another interesting specimen Blue Beryl presented with a form and a new cut so far on this blog. It is a beautiful aquamarine colour very light blue, almost colorless and presented with a briolette-cut faccettato. The gem has a share important talking about ben 11,90 Carat (almost 12 Carat!) However the gem shows some inclusions that make it even more unique and fascinating to look at under the microscope or with the Diamond lens 10x.
