Gemstone Guides

The Best Gemstones for Special Occasions, and the Days They Belong To
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The pieces people keep for fifty years usually arrive on a particular day. This guide goes occasion by occasion: anniversary stones by year, pearls and diamonds for the wedding, birthstones... Read more
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Amethyst for Calm, Jade for Luck, Turquoise for the Road
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
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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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