I love when I’m wearing my favorite necklace and someone comments, “That’s a pretty amethyst.” Then I take it off and show them it’s actually a bicolor sapphire that just looks purple. Makes me smile every time.
Tourmaline is the secondary birthstone for October. When my daughter was deployed to Afghanistan she bought some stones for me. One was a flawless 4ct dark green (think blue spruce) tourmaline.
Now some months have secondary birthstones. I think it has to do with people not interested in the originals. I worked at Macy’s in the bridge jewelry dept. we would have special sales on birthstones. I remember pearls didn’t sell much even the colored ones.
I have always wanted a pink sapphire ring, but now that I’ve learned that garnet (my own birthstone) can be found in pink, I may have a change of heart. Thank you for this video.
The Tudors new what they had in those days. I found out in most cases the darker & size f stone is the most expensive. I like the London Blue Topaz, Tanzanite and dark pink Tourmaline and dark greens.
I totally agree with you. I have a special love for demantiod green garnets, spinels and some of the more silky stones. Knowledge really pays in this field of joy. Thank you.
I don't go for diamonds if I won the lottery I would buy a two and a half carat peachy-pink non-heated non-treated Sri Lankan Padparadscha sapphire. Stunning...
Incredibly feminine, soft and warm gemstone. I’m personally a sucker for star safires and star ruby cabuchons. Doesn’t need elaborate design, simpler is better and good specimens never lean toward tacky. So much of the midern diamond industry (and fakes) is just tasteless tese days, not the stones but the way they are used, set, etc.
Nice video. That watermelon tourmaline pendant is beautiful. My birthstone is garnet. I didn't know it was available in different colors. A recent one I have fallen in love with is lapis lazuli. The history, and third eye chakra energy is fascinating. As a boy in school, King Tut also fascinated me. It's used in his death mask, falcon pectoral, vulture. Cleopatra even crushed it for eyeshadow. It was more valuable than gold.
And crushed lapis lazuli was used in Europe for the oilpaint reserved only to the Madonnas robes back in the day. Strict legislation on these, the most expensive color for more than centuries, actually thousands of years. I’ve an Egyptian silver choker with a stylized lapis eye pendant I love, gifted to me many years ago.
@@gnarbeljo8980 Thanks for the info. That eye pendant I'm sure, is beautiful. Seems like lapis is a very underrated stone given it's long standing history and striking beauty.
The endless localities, colors and sizes of tourmaline has made it my absolute favorite! While I greatly love the entire color range of corundum nothing beats tourmaline and it’s fascinating pleochroism
My favorites gemstones are all of the ones that play with light, regardless of rarity or price. These would be Labradorite, moonstone, opal, fire agate, sunstone, rainbow obsidian and fire obsidian, iris quartz, alexandrite, and color changing corundum. Anything with asterisms are pretty cool and I have recently had a fascination with optical spar as you can use it to navigate and I feel it might be useful when I go foraging in the Adirondack woods.
Tourmaline is certainly very unique and attractive. It really stands out. I didn't know about zircon being the most shiny. I wish the diamond fad ends and people are more interested in the more beautiful, unique and rare stones.
I love all of the stones you have mentioned. I am currently wearing a 2ct brilliant cut blue zircon solitare. I am a sucker for turkish diaspore and sphalerite too. I do love my danburites too .
I've known about Paraíba Tourmaline for many years but never imagined ever seeing one. Then one day I walked into one of my favourite jewellery shops and there it was, almost hidden in a corner of a display case. it came home with me.
My favorites at the moment are Bixbite and Alexandrite. I've been wearing my new 5 1/2 ct Bixbite on my hand since I got it, it's such an amazing color that I haven't swapped out. I keep an Alexandrite around my neck to prove to my kids when I can't see, if it's blue, I'm blind, lol ♥
Since when did the mines run dry? A man found a 3 million dollar chunk in the last year. Just because there’s been a shift away from TanzaniteOne doesn’t mean people still aren’t mining…
I have a 2 carat canary sapphire on a yellow gold band flanked by diamond baguettes for my engagement ring. It’s an eye catcher. Very unique and showy. Love me some sapphires.
Saphhires and tourmaline are my favorite gems. Indicolite, in particular, has gotten really hard to come by and it's insanely expensive when you do find it.
I have blue sapphire and star sapphire. I wanted to buy watermelon tourmaline or paraiba tourmaline. I am really obsessed with gemstones and im glad i subscribe to your video, i learned a lot.
I'm glad to see zircon getting some well deserved appreciation here, i have a particular fondness for them and have collected more than I'll probably ever get around to cutting, cat's eye and star zircons are my favourites, however, the propensity of cutters to facet zircons over cabbing them seems to reduce the availability of chatoyant or astirated gems in the market. I honestly can't remember the last time i saw a cat's eye zircon for sale. As far as garnets are concerned, I've recently been drawn to the gorgeous blue colour change garnets coming out of Madagascar, absolutely stunning stones.👌
I love star sapphires so interesting. My sister had white sapphire earrings. My mom had garnet earrings, it was her birth stone. So many gems out there. There is one called mystic sapphire I think. I know it’s mystic, it white like an opal but it has specks of different colors. I’m not sure it’s a sapphire.
Wow, I had no idea tourmaline was found in Maine. I'm pretty close to Maine, so maybe I'll try finding somewhere to dig for it next time I'm in the area.
I have a beautiful chunk of tourmaline and it is blackish dark green and then flashy lighter green with yellow flashes as well I made a nice necklace out of it.
I have ring with beautiful green demantoid garnet from Russia, and people think it is large green diamond. This garnets are very rare, have a large color spectrum. Actually more shiny than diamond. There are rare color changing garnets. And my favorite is sphene (Christmas stone).
Great video. And I agree with u. 10:40 yes I did learn something. I've only heard of spinel once before. And I did think cz and zircon were related. Lol I knew they weren't the same tho. 😅
May god bless you. Reason I meat lots of gemologist they now only diamond, ruby and emerald. My town lab only test them. They are joke not a gemologist. So god keep blessing you
I'm not a huge fan of red gems, although i do have rubies, that were a gift from my mum. My favourite barbers are the purple/pink garnets, like rhodolite garnet. If I wear my rings with these stones, i always get questions. I live tsavorite garnet, because i love green gems. I have some Alexandrite rings (from Orissa, sadly not Russia), but the colour change from a gentle green to shocking pink is miraculous.
I enjoyed the video, a fact that has helped me with colored gems is knowing the hardness and understanding that relates to how it can be used in jewelry. Thoughts??
Could you tell us the hardness of these 5 gemstones. Great information. I make gemstone bead work! Dark blue Lindy Star sapphire is my favourite gemstone.
I own 2 diamonds about the size of a pin head, not a fan. I prefer coloured stones and have over the years collected peridots (my birth stone), tanzanite, emeralds, sapphires, rubies, garnets, amethysts and just recently bought a tourmaline ring with rough cut tourmalines in green and pink. Really wanted the watermelon but maybe next time. I also have a thing for cabochon stones.
I gotta disagree with the title on principle, not cause I don't want these beautiful stones to be more recognized, but cause if they are, they'll end up getting the Industry treatment, and that's not good for anything.
Green garnet. Very pretty. About the music, the constant repetition of the same section of a tune, almost as loud as your voice is distracting. Low volume, soft classical seems to work best, in my opinion as BACKGROUND music. Great info though. Worth the musical torture.
I enjoy your videos but totally disagree when you say people are not aware of saphire. Anyone who knows whats a diamond or emerald knows that saphire is an expensive precious stone. Most under rated stone is Garnet. Rainbow Moonstone. Peridot. Black Obsidian Flourite. Granted Rainbow Moonstone n Flourite are very low on the moh list.
I think the beryls are my favorite gem family. They’re versatile! You have goshenite, emerald, bixbite, morganite, all sorts! Goshenite was used in some of the first eyeglasses! I adore this gem family
Sapphires come in any color but RED. Why? It's then a ruby. Same base mineral, but there's one mineral compound that makes it a ruby. I learned this in 8th grade chemistry class, and it made me want to be a gemologist/jewelry designer. I also can tell the difference between a blue topaz and an aquamarine, and between a garnet (my birthstone) and a ruby.
My grams had a 2 ct Russian Alexandrite that she wore everyday. It was bought in the 80’s. My auntie has it now. Such a beautiful play on color.
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What’s that gotta do with the 5 underrated gems lol
I love when I’m wearing my favorite necklace and someone comments, “That’s a pretty amethyst.” Then I take it off and show them it’s actually a bicolor sapphire that just looks purple. Makes me smile every time.
RIGHT ON.
My engagement ring is a teal sapphire, and I love it! Such a gorgeous stone.
Tourmaline is the secondary birthstone for October. When my daughter was deployed to Afghanistan she bought some stones for me. One was a flawless 4ct dark green (think blue spruce) tourmaline.
Now some months have secondary birthstones. I think it has to do with people not interested in the originals. I worked at Macy’s in the bridge jewelry dept. we would have special sales on birthstones. I remember pearls didn’t sell much even the colored ones.
@@herbiethekat3637 And birthstones were invented by jewelers around 1900 to stimulate sales...
Garnets are way underrated - so many pretty colors. Deep blood red, bright greens and shockingly orange. A gorgeous stone all around.
I have always wanted a pink sapphire ring, but now that I’ve learned that garnet (my own birthstone) can be found in pink, I may have a change of heart. Thank you for this video.
I have natural pink sapphire from mogok myanmar. Untreated natural pink sapphire that i want to sell.
Was waiting to hear Spinel. My fav by far
It is a good one!
I am lucky enough to have a beautiful Alexandrite, my daughter is called Alexandra so when she turned 21 I gave it to her.
I love the green garnets and green amethyst stones. Would even love those in an engagement ring.
Amethyst is purple quartz, in green it is called prasiolite,
@@dnwr5224 that’s it. Could not for the life of think of the proper name. Thank you
JTV jewelry has green amethyst-Praisiolite- in rings. I particularly like the halo style rings !
Pink and Lavender spines are gorgeous.
Agreed!
The Tudors new what they had in those days. I found out in most cases the darker & size f stone is the most expensive. I like the London Blue Topaz, Tanzanite and dark pink Tourmaline and dark greens.
I totally agree with you. I have a special love for demantiod green garnets, spinels and some of the more silky stones. Knowledge really pays in this field of joy. Thank you.
Glad to hear you enjoyed the video.
I don't go for diamonds if I won the lottery I would buy a two and a half carat peachy-pink non-heated non-treated Sri Lankan
Padparadscha sapphire.
Stunning...
They are beautiful!
Incredibly feminine, soft and warm gemstone.
I’m personally a sucker for star safires and star ruby cabuchons. Doesn’t need elaborate design, simpler is better and good specimens never lean toward tacky.
So much of the midern diamond industry (and fakes) is just tasteless tese days, not the stones but the way they are used, set, etc.
I also like Iolites and Labradorites.
I see someone mentioning grey spinel-- we have some "platinum" spinel and it's just gorgeous!
Nice video. That watermelon tourmaline pendant is beautiful. My birthstone is garnet. I didn't know it was available in different colors.
A recent one I have fallen in love with is lapis lazuli.
The history, and third eye chakra energy is fascinating.
As a boy in school, King Tut also fascinated me. It's used in his death mask, falcon pectoral, vulture. Cleopatra even crushed it for eyeshadow. It was more valuable than gold.
And crushed lapis lazuli was used in Europe for the oilpaint reserved only to the Madonnas robes back in the day. Strict legislation on these, the most expensive color for more than centuries, actually thousands of years.
I’ve an Egyptian silver choker with a stylized lapis eye pendant I love, gifted to me many years ago.
@@gnarbeljo8980
Thanks for the info.
That eye pendant I'm sure, is beautiful.
Seems like lapis is a very underrated stone given it's long standing history and striking beauty.
The endless localities, colors and sizes of tourmaline has made it my absolute favorite! While I greatly love the entire color range of corundum nothing beats tourmaline and it’s fascinating pleochroism
My favorites gemstones are all of the ones that play with light, regardless of rarity or price. These would be Labradorite, moonstone, opal, fire agate, sunstone, rainbow obsidian and fire obsidian, iris quartz, alexandrite, and color changing corundum. Anything with asterisms are pretty cool and I have recently had a fascination with optical spar as you can use it to navigate and I feel it might be useful when I go foraging in the Adirondack woods.
Tourmaline is certainly very unique and attractive. It really stands out.
I didn't know about zircon being the most shiny.
I wish the diamond fad ends and people are more interested in the more beautiful, unique and rare stones.
I love all of the stones you have mentioned. I am currently wearing a 2ct brilliant cut blue zircon solitare.
I am a sucker for turkish diaspore and sphalerite too. I do love my danburites too .
Spalerite belongs within the realms of Royalty, the gem is simply divine.
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It is beautiful.
I love peridot gemstones the most. Some of them have a really bright shade of green that is even more so than an emerald or jade.
There is nice peridot out there. Can be hard to find though.
LOVE peridot! Green is my favorite color. I really wish I had been born in august instead of March.
I do too. The ideal everyday gem for someone with green eyes, and or red hair.
And just lovely with a really warm 22 ct gold.
That Watermelon Tourmaline was everything! 🍉🖤
I've known about Paraíba Tourmaline for many years but never imagined ever seeing one. Then one day I walked into one of my favourite jewellery shops and there it was, almost hidden in a corner of a display case.
it came home with me.
Mate, you will find them on Gemporia.com online and on TV!
Gems tv that is ..;))
My taste is far, far outstripped beyond my budget. Ah, well.
I really liked the tourmaline and the green garnet.
My favorites at the moment are Bixbite and Alexandrite. I've been wearing my new 5 1/2 ct Bixbite on my hand since I got it, it's such an amazing color that I haven't swapped out. I keep an Alexandrite around my neck to prove to my kids when I can't see, if it's blue, I'm blind, lol ♥
Thanks for sharing!!
Shout out to tanzanite - before the mines ran dry. What I saw in later years wasn’t worth the blood and tears. But the old stuff, mmmm!
Since when did the mines run dry? A man found a 3 million dollar chunk in the last year. Just because there’s been a shift away from TanzaniteOne doesn’t mean people still aren’t mining…
I have a 2 carat canary sapphire on a yellow gold band flanked by diamond baguettes for my engagement ring. It’s an eye catcher. Very unique and showy. Love me some sapphires.
Saphhires and tourmaline are my favorite gems. Indicolite, in particular, has gotten really hard to come by and it's insanely expensive when you do find it.
Tourmalines are my favorite. I have a couple from San Diego.
I love zircon, though I can only afford to work with tiny ones. Spinel also, though it's pricey too. I have a new passion for chrome diopside.
As a gem enthusiast, thanks for making these videos, man.
Glad you like them!
I love garnet and tourmaline. I enjoy working with these stones.
Garnet in all its colors, but the deep red and the oranges are my favorites.
My favorite gem stones are green Helenite,Rubies,and blue Topaz.
I have blue sapphire and star sapphire. I wanted to buy watermelon tourmaline or paraiba tourmaline. I am really obsessed with gemstones and im glad i subscribe to your video, i learned a lot.
I'm glad to see zircon getting some well deserved appreciation here, i have a particular fondness for them and have collected more than I'll probably ever get around to cutting, cat's eye and star zircons are my favourites, however, the propensity of cutters to facet zircons over cabbing them seems to reduce the availability of chatoyant or astirated gems in the market. I honestly can't remember the last time i saw a cat's eye zircon for sale.
As far as garnets are concerned, I've recently been drawn to the gorgeous blue colour change garnets coming out of Madagascar, absolutely stunning stones.👌
Love sapphires...would like to find one in a tennis bracelet and deep golden citrine!
Watermelon tourmaline and tanzanite are my favorites. If I could afford a dark blue/purple tanzanite, I’d prefer that over a diamond any day.
Thank you sir. You're very kind and generous. May God bless you and your loved ones
I'm fascinated by all of them. Colored gemstones.
I love star sapphires so interesting. My sister had white sapphire earrings. My mom had garnet earrings, it was her birth stone. So many gems out there. There is one called mystic sapphire I think. I know it’s mystic, it white like an opal but it has specks of different colors. I’m not sure it’s a sapphire.
Demantoid Garnet, more brilliance than a diamond, changes from Emerald Green to Ruby Red in different lights.
Demantoid doesn't change colour, you mean Alexandrite...
@@samplerstitcher Demantoid is green in natural light and red in electric light, study it.
@@stevewhitman8529 Why be snotty? I am looking for info can't find it yet
@@stevewhitman8529 I just found one small write up, very exciting! Do you have any more info?
@@samplerstitcher I blew my nose, Ain't snotty, cheers for the degradation.
I have a beautiful tsavorite. The fact its only found in tsavo ( tanzania) makes it so much more special.
Tourmaline, I had no idea it was so beautiful, the watermelon tourmaline , wow.
It really is!
Wow, I had no idea tourmaline was found in Maine. I'm pretty close to Maine, so maybe I'll try finding somewhere to dig for it next time I'm in the area.
Cool fact about tourmaline as well, if you heat it up, it generates an electric charge.
I have a beautiful chunk of tourmaline and it is blackish dark green and then flashy lighter green with yellow flashes as well I made a nice necklace out of it.
I have ring with beautiful green demantoid garnet from Russia, and people think it is large green diamond. This garnets are very rare, have a large color spectrum. Actually more shiny than diamond. There are rare color changing garnets. And my favorite is sphene (Christmas stone).
I have dementoid garnet. Top red spinel. Corundom. Sapphire. I like how you explain. I want to learn more. Thank you. Much appreciated.
I definitely appreciate your thoughts on this
Glad to hear it
Great video. And I agree with u.
10:40 yes I did learn something. I've only heard of spinel once before. And I did think cz and zircon were related. Lol I knew they weren't the same tho. 😅
Wear some of these everyday, thank you. Chrome diopside is beautiful.
I totally agree!
We’ve been mining Australian Zircons for the past 5 weeks. It seems to have lots of colours inside. Just got to find an awesome gem cutter now :-)
Good luck!
I have been mining at a mine that has rubies, sapphires, and rhodolite garnets. I am now hooked. I found several raw star sapphires/ and rubies.
Star sapphires are my favorite stone. I would like to try mining for them some day
I really like Tanzanite and magic topaz
Oh yeah, also the included quartz like rutilated and tourmalinated quartz! Not to mention Herkimer Diamonds!
Also good stones!
I would love to find a big green tourmaline, but they're so expensive
They used to be reasonable, but they have gone up fast!
Alexanderite is the coolest. I will fight you. IT CHANGES COLOUR UNDER DIFFERENT KINDS OF LIGHT. HOW DOES THIS NOT FASCINATE EVERYONE?????
It is fascinating! I will likely do a video just on that in the near future.
Unfortunately, the natural ones of good quality and size are extremely rare and expensive.
More people need to find out about the infinity stones.
May god bless you. Reason I meat lots of gemologist they now only diamond, ruby and emerald. My town lab only test them. They are joke not a gemologist. So god keep blessing you
I'm not a huge fan of red gems, although i do have rubies, that were a gift from my mum. My favourite barbers are the purple/pink garnets, like rhodolite garnet. If I wear my rings with these stones, i always get questions. I live tsavorite garnet, because i love green gems. I have some Alexandrite rings (from Orissa, sadly not Russia), but the colour change from a gentle green to shocking pink is miraculous.
Favourite garnets, not barbers!! 😂😂
Thanks for sharing.
I enjoyed the video, a fact that has helped me with colored gems is knowing the hardness and understanding that relates to how it can be used in jewelry. Thoughts??
my favorite gem is ametrine
I would love to see a tsavorite. I love that stone, prettier than emeralds to me.
I paired 2 tsvorites with wine colored garnet. The color of tsavorite so bright, brilliant deep green.
Hey Andrew all of those are Sri Lankan Gemstones. Nice.
I Agree. Good Video. Thanks.
Although not my Birthstone I love Garnets - Not the orange/red though, the darkest red colour!
Same. Dark wine garnets are amazing. Almost black, but with a glint of burgundy
Hi would you like to buy a pink diamond rough.
Thanks for sharing!
Could you tell us the hardness of these 5 gemstones. Great information. I make gemstone bead work! Dark blue Lindy Star sapphire is my favourite gemstone.
I have a few separate videos where i get into more specifics. Hopefully that will help.
I own 2 diamonds about the size of a pin head, not a fan. I prefer coloured stones and have over the years collected peridots (my birth stone), tanzanite, emeralds, sapphires, rubies, garnets, amethysts and just recently bought a tourmaline ring with rough cut tourmalines in green and pink. Really wanted the watermelon but maybe next time. I also have a thing for cabochon stones.
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Have you done anything on morganite, or tanzanite?
Not specifically. I do mention them occasionally, but have yet to do a designated video.
I recently got hooked into gemology. What do you think about tanzanite?
Nice info!
Thanks!
Is sphene rare? I have a beautiful greenish yellow one.
Thoughts on zircon in rings and what protective settings can help make it a more feasable gem for rings?
Fascinating insight, information
Thank you ✨
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you
I love zircon
this guy seems like the kind of person who is really enthusiastic about covid vaccines.. and masks
It's not a gem but Larimar stone or Atlantis stone is my favorite.
What is the best online website to buy gemstones
Excellent
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank You.
You're welcome
Hey man, those are gem stones of color!
Or coper bearing tourmalines Paraiba
Iolite, wow
I gotta disagree with the title on principle, not cause I don't want these beautiful stones to be more recognized, but cause if they are, they'll end up getting the Industry treatment, and that's not good for anything.
Where i contact you my friend
We love Maine. We vacation there. My daughter lives there. And I've mined tourmaline in Paris Maine. Do you have a shop there?
That’s great! I don’t have my own shop. I know a lot of the Maine Jewelers and have a good connection with Keith Field in Brunswick.
You forgot the Kyanite...also underrated..
Great color, but its hardness is only 4 in one of the directions.
Green garnet. Very pretty. About the music, the constant repetition of the same section of a tune, almost as loud as your voice is distracting. Low volume, soft classical seems to work best, in my opinion as BACKGROUND music. Great info though. Worth the musical torture.
Thank you. I have made adjustments in music on other videos since this video was published.
I got myself a custom made ring with tsavorites. red garnets and white sapphire not that long ago. 😊
I enjoy your videos but totally disagree when you say people are not aware of saphire. Anyone who knows whats a diamond or emerald knows that saphire is an expensive precious stone.
Most under rated stone is Garnet.
Rainbow Moonstone.
Peridot.
Black Obsidian
Flourite.
Granted Rainbow Moonstone n Flourite are very low on the moh list.
Zircon is my favourite. It’s older and rarer than Diamond.
Cubic zirconia is the cheapest and the most useless stone dear
White Sapphire is much much better than this
@@sandamaliekulasekeraa2128 - did I mention Cubic Zirconia?
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No
@@sandamaliekulasekeraa2128 3 DIFFERENT ANIMALS HERE.
DID NOT HEAR THE MAN ZIRCON AND CUBIC ZIRCONIA ARE TWO DIFFERENT STONES. ZIRCON IS A REAL GEMSTONE. CZ IS NADE IN A LAB!!
Ametrine. I love the purple and yellow mix. I also think topaz is underrated as well.
Why is it that one never sees golden topaz? It's my birth stone, and it's supposed to be frightfully expensive.
I think the beryls are my favorite gem family. They’re versatile! You have goshenite, emerald, bixbite, morganite, all sorts! Goshenite was used in some of the first eyeglasses! I adore this gem family
i honestly never liked citrine until i bought a gorgeous light champagne coloured citrine ring and im hooked.fits perfectly with my dark skin.
Sapphires come in any color but RED. Why? It's then a ruby. Same base mineral, but there's one mineral compound that makes it a ruby. I learned this in 8th grade chemistry class, and it made me want to be a gemologist/jewelry designer. I also can tell the difference between a blue topaz and an aquamarine, and between a garnet (my birthstone) and a ruby.
It’s not even technically a chemical compound, just the simple element chromium
Yay! Tsavorite is also my absolute fave. We must be in a company of two.