Colored Diamonds and Precious Stones
Colored Diamonds
Yellow Diamond
The yellow diamond, also called the canary diamond, is the second most iconic type of colored diamond. Commonly found in South Africa, yellow diamonds can have very intense saturations, ranging up to a pale yellow.
Ranging from yellow to brownish hues, yellow is the most valuable. It is often said that the more intense the color, the more the diamond's value increases over time.
Pink Diamond
Pink diamonds are rare, with the majority being mined in Argyle, Western Australia.
Pink diamonds come in a variety of shades and saturations of pink. The more vivid and intense a diamond is in its pink color, the higher its value.
Diamond Champagne
Champagne diamonds are the most common colored diamonds. They are characterized by shades of brown, due to the presence of nitrogen during their formation.
Champagne diamonds come in a wide range of color intensities. Champagne tones that are medium to dark in color, with a golden appearance, are often the most sought after.
Gem
Gemstones, which are highly valued for their hardness and rarity, are known as precious stones. They are generally more expensive than semi-precious stones.
Precious Stones
Ruby
The red color of ruby comes from a slight admixture of chromium oxide. Only red corundum can be called ruby, all other colors are classified as sapphires. In Sanskrit, ruby is called "Ratnaraj", which means "the king of gemstones".
For thousands of years, ruby has been considered one of the most valuable gemstones on Earth. It has all the characteristics of a gemstone: beautiful color, excellent hardness and exceptional brilliance.
Ruby is an excellent choice for jewelry. Beyond its incredibly rich red hue, which is already an attraction in itself, ruby ranks second only to diamond in terms of strength and durability.
Sapphire
Blue is the primary color of sapphire, although this gemstone is also found in hues such as green, orange, pink, gray, colorless, black, brown, and purple. Sapphire is the most coveted blue gemstone, valued for its color, hardness, durability, and brilliance.
Top quality sapphires are extremely rare in any gemstone deposit in the world. Cutting this gem requires great skill and experience, and it is up to the cutter to orient the rough crystals in a way that optimizes the color.
Sapphire is also considered an excellent choice for jewelry. In terms of hardness and durability, it ranks second only to diamond (and is equivalent to ruby). It can be worn every day without the precautions required with more fragile gemstones like opal or topaz.
Emerald
The name of this remarkable gemstone comes from the Greek word "Smaragdos", meaning "green stone". Its beautiful green color, combined with its durability and rarity, makes it one of the most valuable gemstones. Deep green is the most sought-after color in emeralds.
Although emeralds are known for their imperfections, they have been considered highly prized gemstones since ancient times. Flawless stones are very rare and are recognized for their high value, sometimes even higher than diamonds.
Its good hardness protects the stone to a large extent from scratches, but it can develop internal cracks if struck violently or exposed to extreme temperatures.
SEMI-PRECIOUS GEMSTONES
Pearl
A pearl is an organic gem, produced when certain mollusks, primarily oysters cover a foreign object with beautiful layers of nacre.
A good-sized pearl can take between five to eight years to form, which is usually the entire life of the oyster or mollusk.
There are two types of pearls: natural pearls, formed inside wild oysters, practically impossible to find nowadays, and cultured pearls in which the production of the pearl is artificially induced.
Aquamarine
This is a fascinatingly beautiful gemstone found in colors like light blue of the sky to the deep blue of the sea.
The more intense the color of an aquamarine, the more value is put on it. Aquamarine is one of the most popular and best-known gemstones. There is hardly any other gemstone in modern jewelry design which is refined in such a variety of ways as aquamarine.
Tourmaline
Tourmalines are gemstones with deep brilliance and incomparable variety of colors.
These gemstones are mixed crystals of aluminum boron silicate with a complex and changing composition.
The name tourmaline comes from the Singhalese words 'tura mali', means something like 'stone with mixed colors'.
with two colors are known as bicolored tourmalines, and those with more than two are known as multi-colored tourmalines.