Solid Gold Earrings
Pliny the Elder (Roman Philosopher AD23-79) uses the word “smaragdus” to describe a wide variety of green minerals, he continues on to describe the emerald as “nothing greens greener”.
Nothing could be truer than Pliny’s explanation seeing these Colombian emeralds set in handmade textured 14k gold.
Topaz is often thought of as golden brown, but it comes in variety of colors such as blue, green, yellow, orange, red, pink, purple and transparent.
Colorless topaz is plentiful, and is often treated to give it a blue color. Irradiating colorless topaz with electrons at an energy of 10 million electron volts creates a sky blur color.
Jewelry grade topaz is typically eye clean with no visible inclusions.
The Moche people (of modern day Peru) started working with gold in the first millennium
Fine quality rubies are the most valuable of the mineral species corundum. However, most rubies are treated, which causes the price to range from hundreds of dollars per cart to thousands of dollars per carat.
Ruby is a corundum, the same mineral species as sapphire. The difference between the two is color, it is called a ruby when it has a medium to dark pinkish red color, all other shades of corundum are called sapphire. Gemologists have no strict measure on how to draw the line between ruby and sapphire.
Apatites come in many colors; brown, green, grey, pink, purple, white, yellow, transparent and many different shades of blue. Including one that is very similar to the famous paraíba tourmaline.
Gemstones come in every hue from green to blue
