What is a gemstone and what makes it precious?
A gemstone is a mineral in a natural crystalline form of a mineral. The rarity, the color, the size, the hardness, and the transparency of a gemstone depending entirely on its chemical components. Nature has offered us breathtaking gemstones which are desirable for their amazing beauty all over the world. The rarity, durability and value of these gemstones make them a remarkable asset that can be enjoyed for generations.
Gemstones don’t cease to amaze. Related to their beauty and rarity is also the wealth statement of the wearer. For thousands of years humans have been adorning themselves with gems and jewels to stand out and wow an audience. Whether we are talking about necklaces, rings, pendants, or bracelets, the precious and rare gems – mounted on jewelry – have long since become one of the favored ways to express just how much wealth one has. Here are the ten rarest and most expensive, of course, gems on earth:
Jadeite - over USD $3 Million/Carat
Red Diamonds - about USD $2-2.5 Million/Carat
Serendibite - about USD $1.8-2 Million/Carat
Blue Garnet - about USD $1.5 Million/Carat
Painite - about USD $50-60,000/Carat
Grandidierite - about USD $50,000/ Carat
Musgravite - about USD $35,000/Carat
Red Beryl Emerald - about USD $10,000.00/Carat
Black Opal - about USD $2,355/Carat
Jeremejevite - about USD $2000/Carat
Check out a previous post on Jewelry Blog Uncovered with the pictures of these great gemstones. Jewel’s up!
Tags: expensive gemstones, gemstones, natural gemstones, rare gemstones, top 10
August 6th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Very interesting post. Crazy prices…
October 2nd, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Totally fascinating article. I did not know that there were so many gemstones at mad prices
October 26th, 2009 at 3:02 am
I was really astonished to see the info of gemstones i.e. they are minerals actually but their prices stunned me a lot and wondered that gemstones with higher prices are costly due to their rare existence or due to their beauty. And thanks for providing the link to see the photos of these stones.
November 1st, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Wow! I never realized just how expensive some gems can get, to tell you the truth there are a few in there I’ve never even heard of. My husband and I sell jewelry online and carry many Colored Diamond items. We have 1ctw Black Diamond Solitaires set in 10K Solid Gold and then customers ask if it is Carbonado! When we tell them they are natural diamonds that have been irradiated or color enhanced, we sometimes loose the sale because they don’t realize how rare Carbonado really is. Of course the same goes for Red Diamonds, we’ve had many customers refuse to purchase an item because it is not a natural red diamond. I’ll be sure to reference them to this page from now on! Thanks for the info.
December 27th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
You have amazing article with amazing price gems…thanks for this precious info
January 13th, 2010 at 11:24 pm
Oh! this precious gemstone have there own price.It’s too expensive only rich people can afford this. Hope that I will be rich so that I can buy of that stone.http://www.helzberg.com/“>Thanks for the information.
April 12th, 2010 at 3:07 am
wow amaizing prices, oklets say we found one of these gem. who we gonna sell it for? who is there to buy?