Top List of Best Rough Gem Stones in 2020

Here is a guide to the most commonly used precious and semi-precious Rough Gem Stones!

Amethyst is a variety of quartz crystal which color is lavender to purple, and is usually translucent.
Like all other quartz, amethyst is a commonly used crystal in metaphysical work.
They are found in many parts of the world, but only a few countries provide darker high-quality gemstones.
Other common varieties of quartz include carnelian and rose quartz.

Aquamarine is a glorious, blue colored gemstone.
The color of aquamarine varies from pale blue to dark blue, and sometimes a bluish-green.
It is often mistaken for the less expensive blue topaz.

Apatite is not a well-known gemstone and actually has more uses outside the jewelry field.
It is a soft stone and can be very brittle by sitting aa five on the Mohs Scale.
It is most commonly seen in green tones and can also be found in browns, yellows, pinks, violets, and blues.
Apatite crystals typically grow in hexagonal (six-sided) shapes.

Citrine is a beautiful yellow gemstone with a color that varies from light to dark.
High-quality citrine is transparent, while lower grade, like the one used in beading, can have an opaque look to it.
Citrine is often mistaken for the more expensive yellow topaz.

Emerald is a green variety of beryl. It is considered a precious gemstone and has been prized since ancient Egypt.
The finest emeralds come from Columbia and the South American region in general.

Garnet is popularly recognized as a dark red gemstone but is actually a group of gems that can have a variety of colors.
It was named after the pomegranate and is the birthstone for January.
It has been found as early as the Bronze Age and was known in Sumeria and ancient Egypt.
Almandine and pyrope garnet are the most common in jewelry.

Discovered in 1902 by George Kunz, while working for Tiffany.
Kunzite is a pale pink to a violet form of spodumene, a silicate mineral in the pyroxene group, which color comes from manganese.
Kunzite is often heated or irradiated to enhance its color.

A yellowish-green gemstone, composed of iron, silica, and magnesia, which is common in certain volcanic rocks.
It varies in color from olive to lime green.
It has been mined in Egypt for thousands of years, with some recent discovery found in Pakistan, Burma, South Africa, and Brazil.

Spinel is a fairly hard gemstone composed of magnesium aluminum oxide.
It comes in a number of shades, from transparent to shades of blue, black, brown, green, red, pink, and yellow.
It is often mistaken for other precious stones, particularly ruby.
Due to its popularity, it is sometimes artificially created for industrial use.

Sapphire is a variety of corundum, a tough gem that sits at nine on the Mohs scale.
We most commonly thought of as sapphire as blue, but actually, sapphires come in a range of colors, like violet, pink, white, green, yellow, and black. Except red, which is called ruby.

Clear quartz is a crystal consisting of silicon dioxide.
Many other gemstones are actually a variety of quartz, such as amethyst, agate, citrine, smoky quartz, rose quartz, as well as all types of chalcedony such as bloodstone, carnelian, and jasper.
Clear quartz is also called crystal quartz, rock crystal, or quartz crystal; it can be found in natural crystal formations or tumbled into beads.

Topaz is a hard stone, sitting at eight on the Mohs Scale.
It can be found in many colors, including pink, orange, red, golden, yellow, blue, brown, green, white, peach, and transparent.
Most commercial topaz comes from Pakistan & Brazil. Still, it is also found in India, Sri Lanka, Russia, U.S., Japan, Canada, Mexico, and many other places around the world.
Topaz is associated with Sagittarius astrological sign, and is the birthstones for November (yellow topaz), while blue topaz is a birthstone for December. Pure topaz is often used in place of a diamond, the birthstones for April.
It is also the anniversary stone for the fourth, nineteenth, and twenty-third years of marriage.
The word topaz means “fire: in Sanskrit, and because of its hardness, it is usually faceted before setting it into jewelry.

Tourmaline is a silicate mineral, sitting at a hardness of seven on the Moh’sMoh’s scale.
Tourmaline is found all over the world and comes in a variety of colors, including shades of blue, red, pink, yellow, green, and black.
Although it can be found in many places, fine specimens useful for jewelry are still considered rare and valuable.

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