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    Amethyst for Calm, Jade for Luck, Turquoise for the Road
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    Ask ten people what amethyst is for and most answer with the same word without hesitation. Calm. The meanings attached to stones have outlasted the empires that recorded them, surviving... Read more
    The Gemstones Built for Every Day, and the Ones Worth Saving
    The Gemstones Built for Every Day, and the Ones Worth Saving
    A ring worn every day meets the car door, the keyboard and the kitchen tap before lunch. Some gemstones take that in stride for decades; others are better kept for... Read more
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    The Line Between a Good Stone and a Great One
    Two blue sapphires sit on the same tray, cut to the same oval, set in the same 14k white gold. One is nine hundred dollars and the other is nine... Read more
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    What the Stones Were Asked to Mean
    What the Stones Were Asked to Mean
    Long before anyone could explain why a ruby is red, people had decided what a ruby was for. Warriors set them into armour, travellers carried garnet for a safe return,... Read more
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    The Gemstones Worth More Than They Cost
    The Gemstones Worth More Than They Cost
    Set a fine amethyst beside a fine sapphire and most people guess the price backwards. That gap has almost nothing to do with how either stone looks. This guide sorts... Read more
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    Rare Gemstones Guide
    Rare Gemstones Guide
    Every tanzanite that has ever existed came out of a strip of hills seven kilometres long. Diamond is mined on several continents by the hundred million carats. This guide sorts... Read more
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    Treated vs Untreated Gemstones
    Treated vs Untreated Gemstones
    Two sapphires under the same lamp, identical in every way a shopper can see, separated by three days in a furnace and a fourfold difference in price. This guide sorts... Read more
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