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58Semi-Precious Stones in Jewish Jewelry
Turquoise, opals, and carnelian stones are just a few of the semi-precious gemstones used in Jewish jewlery. They are beautiful, but also believed to give a natural power to the person who wears it.
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55Types of Opals - Characteristics, Healing Properties and Other Facts
Chemically, opal is silicon dioxide plus water. It has a chemical composition of SiO2.nH2O. The water content is usually ranges from 3% to 10%. Therefore it is noncrystalline, unlike most other gemstones. As opal contains a high percentage of water,...
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78Blue Opals
I recently bought an opal ring as a birthday present to myself. Why an opal? Because, like a diamond (my birthstone), it catches light and produces different color variations as it is moved. My dad gave me a diamond ring for my 16th birthday. It was...
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64Top 5 Strike It Rich Vacation Spots
The annual family vacation destination can be a difficult decision to make from time to time. I’m sure you’ve experienced the pressures from growing and maturing offspring in your family as their tastes change in music, clothing, foods and the...
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65Treating Gems with Care
Gem treatment is something that we all in the trade of gemstones have to except as a necessary evil. If we do not treat the gemstones then probably we will have even fewer gems making them even more expensive. Presently there are almost a dozen...
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72San Francisco’s Opal Hotel
There are many hotels to choose from in San Francisco. Some of them are famous. Some of them are infamous. And plenty of them are comfortable. So why would you choose The Opal Hotel over any of the others? Well, to be honest, the rates have a lot to...
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63Brief History and Lore of Pink Peruvian Opal
Pink peruvian opal is opaque variety of Opal, sometimes referred to as "Andean Opal" and is 5.5-6.5 on the Moh’s scale. . This type of opal does not portray the color play of traditional opal gemstones.Peruvian pink opal is relatively rare and is...
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62The October Birthstone | Buy cheap Opal Jewelry | Rings| Bracelets| necklaces| earrings
The October birthstone is Opal , so anyone born in October can wear this beautiful gem and wit will bring them good luck if you are just looking to buy a opal peace of jewellery check below for a list of cheap opal rings bracelets cheap opal rings,...
69Tanzanite Jewelry - The Most Cherished Belongings
Tanzanite jewelry is considered to be the most exquisite nowadays because of the rareness and beauty of the gemstone. Tanzanite was identified as a variant of zoisite, five years after which large deposits were found at the same place and its mining...
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71Why Choose Black Opal Earrings
Black opal Earrings are one of the rarest jewelry types in the world these days. That’s a large statement to make but it is simple to figure out why. You see, black opals are rare in themselves as it is, especially because the opal fields in...
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