Learn about Zircon's durability and how to care for your Zircon jewelry.

“奥德赛太阳石”系列的最后一期介绍了太阳石山矿（一个拥有大量壮观的绿色和双色宝石的新矿址）。

Lush blue velvet. Rich royal purple. Exotic tanzanite is found in only one place on earth, near majestic Kilimanjaro

Tanzanite is relatively new to the colored stone galaxy. Almost overnight, tanzanite was popular with leading jewelry designers and other gem professionals, as well as with customers who had an eye for beautiful and unusual gems.

Learn about sunstone's durability and how to care for your sunstone jewelry.

Spinel is a good candidate for the title of “History’s Most Underappreciated Gem.” Some ancient mines that supplied gems for royal courts from Rome to China produced spinel, but it was usually confused with better-known stones like ruby and sapphire.

The Black Prince’s Ruby. The Timur Ruby. For centuries, spinel, the great imposter, masqueraded as ruby in Europe’s crown jewels

The spinel used in jewelry is a small part of a group of minerals that share the same crystal structure. Not all of them form transparent crystals suitable for jewelry use, however. Spinel offers a range of hues, from orange to intense “stoplight” red, vibrant pink, and all shades of purple, blue, and violet through bluish green.

了解粉晶的耐用性以及如何保养您的粉晶首饰。

Learn about the factors that make morganite so desirable.

Following the discovery of a new locality for rose beryl in Madagascar in 1910, George Kunz proposed the name morganite at a meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences on 5 December 1910 to honor his friend and customer J.P. Morgan.

Like many gems found in pegmatites, morganite can form large crystals.

Learn about morganite's durability and how to care for your morganite jewelry.

Learn about the factors that make moonstone so desirable.

A review of Diamonds: An Early History of the King of Gems by Jack Ogden.

Review of Figures & Faces: The Art of Jewelry by Patrick Mauriès and Évelyne Possémé

Review of Geology: A Very Short Introduction by Jan Zalasiewicz.

Review of Masterpieces in Miniature: Engraved Gems from Prehistory to the Present by John Boardman and Claudia Wagner.

Review of Symphony of Jewels: Anna Hu Opus 2 by Janet Zapata with Sarah Davis.

Learn about the factors that make rose quartz so desirable.