A Gorgeous Stone with a Mystic Origin – Rose Quartz

 Far in the world, a country where 60% of amazon forest is found maintains the chief source of this Quartz though it can also be found in India, Madagascar, South Africa, Mozambique, and United States. A heart stone which was used as a love token in 600 B.C. and still an essential amulet of relationships. - Rose Quartz

Inspiring the love of beauty in oneself or the other was prized in the ancient world for its powers of physical beautification, in Egyptian tombs, its Rose facial masks were also discovered. This Quartz became one of the major carving stones of china but also was awarded by Tibetans and Oriental cultures. Crystals of this Pink Quartz are coarsely crystalline, i.e., they are quite large. Interference from other growing crystals make it impossible to have any external faces.

This gemstone is colored naturally. Hence, there is no treatment. Rose Quartz was referred to as antique as Bohemian or Silesian Ruby, called as Pink Quartz or Hyaline Quartz, a word came from a Greek word “hylaos” which indicates glass. Crystalline Rose Quartz, a tag it carried as it is formed in clusters of small prismatic crystals.

Dating the stone back to 7000 B.C was found in the area once known as Mesopotamia, and it is believed that Romans & Assyrians in 800-600 B.C. were the first ones to use the stone.

Smoky Quartz – Know My Story!

 A grey crystalline quality of Quartz from almost translucent to opaque brownish-grey or black crystal is what makes Smoky Quartz. This Quartz is silicon dioxide, and the color cast is free silicon from the silicon dioxide by natural irradiation. Igneous and other high assorted metamorphic rocks, like granite, and orthogneiss makes the formation of this Quartz as due to the radioactive traces that cause the coloration in it. Sedimentary rocks Smoky Quartz are unusual as their content of radioactive is comparatively low.

Its dark variety is called Morion a German, Danish, Spanish and Polish analogue for Smoky Quartz. Cairngorm mountains of Scotland hold the Cairngorm variety of Smoky Quartz usually a Smoky yellow-brown color, but some are of grayish-brown.

Historically it didn’t have significant importance but now have become a massive deal in the jewelry sector. Switzerland, Australia, Madagascar, Brazil, Africa, and the USA are the countries where Smoky Quartz crystals put up.

It honors its reference to the mother earth as a stone as dark as night and as free as hour waters, or as flame and prosperous as a Marc by the furnace associates its sorcery on the root Chakra.

After Clear and Rose Quartz, it is the third most prominent mineral that sustains this name. A Gemstone used widely as it serves easy in cutting and shaping equally for the jewelry and other accessories.

Rhodolite Garnet – Know My Story!

 Rhodon a Greek word which gave us “rose colored” aka, pinkish hue gem Rhodolite. A Garnet mix of Pyrope and Almandine composition is a raspberry-red, purplish-red or colored Garnet - Rhodolite Garnet 

Pyrope is actually a mineral in Garnet family, and Rhodolite (rose-pink to red) is a varietal name for it. The color spectrum of Rhodolite Garnet occurs in all the varying color tints among violet and red as well as appears transparent red-pinkish-purplish Gemstone. Sounds fancy isn’t it like a gemstone really got a feminine voice and preference.

This Garnet’s name is not a scientific term neither it is not recognized as an individual Gem. But a Gem is a Gem, single or grouped. The excellent point of this Garnet is unlike all other Garnets? Rhodolite Garnet is not generally treated as well as discovered in metamorphic rocks correlated with other manganese minerals.

Countries like USA, Tanzania and North Carolina, additional origins append Burma (Myanmar), Brazil, China, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), and South Africa are the primary sources for this stone. The Gemstone is a mixture of Almandine and Pyrope Garnet, the Gem is comparatively least expensive compared to those Rare Garnets.

Sri Lanka holds the position of significant Rhodolite supplier (deep reddish-purple variety).

Red Garnet - Know My Story!

 A silicate mineral used since bronze age came from a 14’th century word “Garnet” meant “Dark Red” derived from a Latin word Granatum, meant pomegranate due to the resemblance of the granular varieties of seeds. As per facts, Garnet was used in former Czechoslovakia for more than five thousand years ago as far as bronze age and in Egypt. Taking it back to B.C age than, In 2100 B.C it was used in Sumeria and between 1000 and 2000 B.C in Sweden - Red Garnet

It is believed that Garnet provided the light to Noah’s Ark. Europeans used the stone to intensify revelation, acceptance, and integrity. A stone’s therapeutic powers and guarding energy made it priceless, but also it was prized as an ornamental Jewel. Breastplate of the High Priest was said to be one of the sacred breastplate and Garnet is said to be the twelve stone in it.

Today, Garnet isn’t solely worn ornament-ally as a stunning Gem, however, is employed fully in industrialized markets, from watch gears and systematic instruments to sandpaper and polishers.

Iolite - Know My Story!

A lucid variety of Cordierite as the stone is rich with iron, magnesium, and aluminium. The word Iolite is a Greek word for violet and so the color of this transparent to a translucent Gemstone. The polarizing filter of Iolite was first used by the Viking mariners as it extracted the sun’s position for them to navigate safely.

Iolite sometimes used as an inexpensive alternative for the Sapphire as it is much softer than Sapphire and found sufficiently in Australia, Burma, Canada, Brazil, Yellowknife area of the Northwest Territories, India, Sri Lanka, Namibia, Madagascar, Tanzania and the US.

A water Sapphire Gemstone in its deep Blue Sapphire color is the other name for Iolite. Just like its fellow Blue Gemstones IoliteSapphire and Tanzanite, Iolite is pleochroic- as it spreads light differently when observed from different directions.

There are some sacred texts in which Iolite is also known as Neeli as its powers are considered equally to Blue Sapphire. Iolite was named after a French geologist – Cordier. Iolite does precisely what a Polaroid do: it eliminates steam, vapor, and clouds to form things seem more open. The Gemstone has been cherished and utilized for a hundred years and divulged about in every jewelry within the eighteen century in Europe but to the latest, it is used moderately sometimes. 

Citrine – Know My Story!

 

A stone often called as The Light Maker is derived from a French word for lemon “Citron” which carries the sense of optimistic joie de vivre(joy of living) and sense of sunny vibes.

The Gemstone is naturally found all over the world, including Brazil, Madagascar, Spain, Africa, Russia, the US, Scotland, and France.

You are a Citrine Gemstone when you are 300BC old as you have been one of the desirable stone among Greeks and Romans to be used in decorative jewelry.  A crystal so rare was carved into Cabochon rings and intaglio work in First Century AD.

Later, Queen Victoria made it lay by wearing it as jewelry. With this fascinating pace, Scottish men used it as a Gemstone to adorn their swords and stilettos. Its praising didn’t end here as in World War II, and III large crystals were set as prized pieces.

Heard about Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford? Yes, those famous Hollywood stars for whom influential Citrine jewelry was conceived.

Over the vast period of modernization and growing popularity of Citrine nowadays, it is not one of the most expensive and rare stone though the origin of this stone was profound to be one of the most desirable stones in the history and now it has little to do with rareness.

Amethyst – Know My Story!

 Amethyst enjoys the prized Gemstone since centuries as the origin of this beauty comes from the land famous for its ancient civilization, Egypt.

A Gemstone turned from “Gem of Fire”, a Precious historic stone to a Semi-Precious Gemstone, Amethyst has been highly admired for its astounding charm and mystical qualities.

The stone was worked mainly to make antique for intaglio carved Gems. The beliefs of Greeks regarding this stone were firm as they stated – it will remove intoxication. In ancient history, European soldiers used the stone as amulets for protection with the faith that it will make them cool-headed and Heal them.

A stone which has a strong cultural history where Tibetans believe that Amethyst must be sacred to the buddha and then prayers beads were made from it.

It a colossal remark for the stone to be so culturally extended as a symbol of royalty to grace British Crowns. Its royal purple color which is very fascinating and was used to symbolise Christ thus praised more like sapphire and ruby.

The ancient jewelry is more captivating,

Have you ever wished to get that in life?… We bet yes, as the messenger of love “Saint Valentine” used to wear a ring with the Amethyst etched with an image of cupid on it.

That’s how the origin of this violet beauty took place and now desired by every Gem collector in the market.