Posts for 'Gems Stones' Category

By working with the natural qualities in glamorous gemstones, Rachiele is able to capture a fluid organic beauty within hard solid rock. Stunning stone ripples with natural grains and mottled colours, creating gorgeous gemstone vessel sinks and wide gemstone countertops. Available in a selection of geometric and free-form styles, the Rachiele gemstone sinks create a bold and distinctive statement in luxury bathrooms.

When paired with a matching gemstone countertop, Rachiele offers a luxurious canvas of vibrant organic colour. Offered in broad range of exotic stones like the Amber and Turquoise shown, Rachiele vessels become sculptural and artistic additions to modern interiors. Natural beauty that blooms up from gemstone countertops, the glamorous gemstone sinks from Rachiele make a dramatic addition to contemporary bathrooms.

Ruby is a 40th Anniversary gemstone. Ruby is a red gemstone variety of Corundum. Ruby encourages passion and a zest for life.  It improves motivation and setting of realistic goals.  Balances the heart and instills confidence.  Ruby encourages joy, spontaneity, laughter and courage.  It promotes positive dreams and stimulates the pineal gland.  Aids in retaining wealth and passion.  Ruby encourages removal of negative energies from your path.  It overcomes exhaustion and lethargy and imparts potency and vigor.  Calms hyperactivity.

Ruby detoxifies the body, blood and lymphatic system.  It treats fevers, infectious disease and restricted blood flow.  Ruby stimulates the adrenals, kidneys, reproductive organs and spleen.

Every once in awhile, North Carolinians are reminded that buried treasure lies all around us, and it's not Blackbeard the pirate's. The state is rich in minerals of many types, from high-volume industrial materials such as phosphate rock (we're No. 2 in the U.S.) and mica (No. 1) to the rarest of gemstones.

N&O readers recently got a close-up look at a breathtaking example of the latter, an emerald dug up a year ago in Alexander County that has yielded what's being called North America's largest cut emerald - 64 carats worth.

Read the complete story

 HE'S always had a passion for precious stones. Keith Henderson of Riverhead will be in his element at New Zealand's largest Gem, Mineral and Fossil Show. The event is in Auckland for the first time at West Wave in Henderson from September 3 to 5. It is hosted by the North Shore Rockhounds Club.

Visitors from around the country and overseas can view displays of national and international gems, dinosaur eggs and handcrafted jewellery. A highlight is a range of enlarged photos of micro-gems and crystals which can only be seen by using microscopic cameras.

Read the complete story

Farm Gives Up Emerald Fit For An Empress: An emerald so large it's being compared with the crown jewels of Russian empress Catherine the Great was pulled from a pit near corn rows at a North Carolina farm. The nearly 65-carat emerald, called the Carolina Emporer, was pulled from a farm once so well known among treasure hunters that the owners charged US$3 ($4.20) a day to shovel for small samples of the green stones.

After the gem was cut and re-cut, the finished product was about one-fifth the weight of the original find, making it slightly larger than a US25 cent coin and about as heavy as an AA battery.

Read the complete story

This unusual pyrope-spessartite garnet is the latest in beautiful and rare gem materials to be unearthed from the Lindi Province of southeastern Tanzania. What makes this particular stone so special is its size. Marketed as “imperial” garnet, it is reported that most such material suitable for cutting is rarely over one carat in size, and inclusions are common.

This incredible “gem” weighs 57.12 carats and has an amazing, intensely saturated combination of rich orange with a crisp pink secondary that indeed gives it a color similar to fine imperial topaz. The clarity is exceptional and the cutting is superb.

Susannah Chenevix creates unique, beautiful jewellery using gemstones and pearls. Ready for a promotional push, Susannah asked Spring to photograph her stunning work. Under the heat of our studio lights, Spring’s photographers battled unavoidable reflections and dust to capture stunning close-ups of this beautiful jewellery. And our post-production skills ensured the photographs were given the perfect finish.

forever" is a relatively new marketing punch line created by a diamond company, colored gemstones have actually been parts of human civilization since forever.  There have been traces of gemstone usage from early human history with mention of gemstones in the holy Bible also. The emperors and royals of ancient ages had special affiliation to colored gemstones. Ancient cultures across the world sanctified colored gemstones and associated different beliefs and mysticism to gemstones. Recently colored gemstones have made a dramatic comeback with colored gemstones like ruby, emerald, sapphire, aquamarine, tanzanite, amethyst and many more dominating the runways, fashion circles, red carpet and of course our jewelry boxes. Here are a few reasons why colored gemstones score over diamonds.

Read the complete story

Christie's will be auctioning two of the world's most exceptional jewels in its April 22 sale. The Emperor Maximilian Diamond, a 39.55-carat colourless stone, will sell alongside The Catherine the Great Emerald and Diamond Brooch. The latter features a Colombian emerald weighing over 60 carats.The Emperor Maximilian Diamond and the Catherine the Great Emerald and Diamond Brooch.

The rare diamonds are estimated to sell between $1m and $1.5m, and boast a truly exceptional history and provenance. Both the diamonds will be previewed at Christie's Hong Kong today and tomorrow (April 8-9) before the winning bidder is revealed on April 22 in New York.

Read the complete story

We have some new jewellery designs on the Max Diamonds  Please follow the link to see the latest styles.