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<\/p>\nIn this page you can find some links to pages with information about natural gemstone, their properties and their meanings, sorted and grouped by species. Each species of gemstone may have one or more varieties, based on\u00a0special characteristics like: color, optical effect and other phenomenon, for example Amethyst and Citrine are both from the Quartz family but they are separately with different name because of their different colors, or think about a Star Sapphire, a particular Sapphire that reveal a nice six rays star on the surface when cut into cabochon, this optical effect is called asterism.<\/p>\n
These varieties are now used to clearly distinguish different gemstones simply calling them with the appropriate name applied when a particular characteristic is present, this can be useful during the trade for the seller but also for the buyer that immediately recognize what kind of gemstone his buying.<\/p>\n
Some specific species like Peridot are not variety with significantly characteristics, in fact Peridot can be found only with green color, and optical effect are so rare that is difficult to find some Cat’s eye Peridot or Star Peridot. Many species variety are became so popular duo to their specific characteristics that people now recognize them only by their variety name and not by their species, think about Aquamarine or Emerald, people know them by their variety name, but only few knew that they comes from the Beryl mineral family.<\/p>\n
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Follow the links to read more about a specific gemstone you are interested for.<\/p>\n
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In this page you can find some links to pages with information about natural gemstone, their properties and their meanings, sorted and grouped by species. Each species of gemstone may have one or more varieties, based on\u00a0special characteristics like: color,…<\/span><\/p>\n