User:Asarelah/sandbox/gemstones
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- User:Asarelah/sandbox/Gemstones in culture
- User:Asarelah/sandbox/gemstones/Jasper varieties
- User:Asarelah/sandbox/gemstones/Agate varieties
- Category:Quartz varieties (check over for gemstones)
- Category:Cubic minerals
- Category:Individual diamonds
- Agate (look up patterns)
- Ringwoodite (used a gemstone, find source for that)
- Anandite
- Odontolite
- Chrysocolla
- Hemimorphite
- Faustite
- Lazulite
- Smithsonite
- Biotite
- Bityite
- Vivianite
- Wardite
- Magnesite
- Ametrine
- Copaline
- Nephrite
- Larvikite (Norway)
- ClinohumiteOnly two sources of gem-quality material are known: the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan, and the Taymyr region of northern Siberia.
- Caribbean amber
- Serpentine group
- Benitoite
- Alabaster
- Celestine (mineral)
- Jadeite
- Chrysocolla
- Almandine Sri Lanka
- Ceylonite Sri Lanka
- Pyrope
- Demantoid
- Prehnite
- Grossular
- Glaucophane
- Magnesite
- Opal
- Augite transparent augites containing dendritic patterns are used as gems and ornamental stones known as shajar in parts of India. It is found near the Ken River.[4] Local jewelers export raw shajar stone and items to different parts of India. Banda is one city noted for trade of shazar stone.[5]
- Selenite (mineral)
- Desert rose (crystal)
- Diamond
- Hematite
- Jadeite
- Flint
- Impactite
- Aquamarine
- Heliodor
- Proustite
- Pyrite
- Spinel
- Strengite
- Soapstone
- Amber
- AmmoliteAmmolite is also known as aapoak (Kainah
- Copal n Maya
- Precious coral
- Nacre
- Petoskey stone
- Maw sit sit (Burma)
- Boleite (Mexico)
- Botallackite (Cornwall)
- Derbyshire Blue John (England)
- Tanzanite (Tanzania)
- Jet (lignite)Victorian/Roman
- Osmeña pearl
- Chlorastrolite is found in the Keweenaw Peninsula of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Isle Royale in Lake Superior.