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Facts About Gemstones
Colour of Gemstones. One of the most important issues concerning the attractive features of gemstones must always be the gemstones colour.
Although it must be understood that the colour of a beautiful gemstone is only due to the nature of the light source itself. Daylight often referred to as White Light, is in actual fact a mixture of different colours of light detected by our eyes.
As light passes through any material, a little or more of the light may be absorbed, and then the remaining light passes through the object.
The part of the light which is not absorbed by the object which then reaches the eye as White Light as the colours have been absorbed by the object, with only white light remaining.
Likewise the beautiful red ruby colour is detected because all of the remaining colours of white light – blue, yellow, green etc, has been absorbed by the object – ruby in this case, except the red colour which is allowed to continue through, which is detectable as it reaches the eye.
Similar gemstones with exact compositions show different colours. For example, Aquamarine and Morganite have the same chemical composition (both are Beryls) although they exhibit different colours.
Even the same gemstone can occur in different colours. Although the different gemstones formally have the same chemical composition, the chemical structure is not exactly the same.
In the early stages of gemstone formation impurities can be embedded within the gemstones, and these so-called impurities are in sufficient quantities to absorb certain colours and allow other colours unaffected and pass through the object allowing the eye to detect a different colour combination.
For example, Beryl, which is colourless in its purest mineral form, becomes emerald with the inclusion of Chromium impurities. If Manganese is added instead of Chromium, beryl becomes Pink Morganite. With iron, it becomes Aquamarine.
Affordability of Gemstones. Many people would love to own a beautiful customised fine gemstone jewellery but they are concerned by the fear that fine gemstone jewellery are rare, very expensive and only owned by the richest and successful in society.
Understandable, one can assume that very fine gemstones can be very expensive, especially when buying at retail prices, but in reality many prospective buyers are surprised when they discover that gemstones and sterling silver findings bought at wholesale prices, then used to create genuine gemstone beads jewellery – excluding the ‘middlemen' costings, it is possible they can buy fine sterling silver gemstone beads jewellery at very low prices and definitely affordable when purchased in the UK.
If you just know where to look and what to look for. The prices of fine natural gemstones, like the prices for many other products, fluctuate with supply and demand, if there is heavy demand and a very limited supply, then prices for fine gemstones will be very high, as they are with gemstones like Blue Sapphire, Tanzanite, Tsavorite Garnet and Burmese Ruby.
Yet there are many fine natural gemstones which are of excellent quality and generally in good supply, and many of these fine natural gemstones are relatively reasonably priced indeed especially when purchase in bulk at wholesale prices.
These fine natural gemstones which include Amethyst, Citrine, Ametrine, Blue Topaz and many of the more common Red Garnets are of excellent quality and create beautiful natural gemstone jewellery especially when created with sterling silver findings.
Good quality sterling silver gemstone bracelets can sell for under £10 including Postage and Packaging. However, Amethyst or Citrine may not be exactly what you have in mind when you think of "fine gemstones."
Another successful strategy for finding more affordable fine gemstones is to search for certain varieties of finer gemstones which are rare, but not yet expensive through supply and demand, or because the gemstones are flooding the market.
These are fine rare gemstones which, due to their scarcity, have not been heavily promoted in the world gemstone market.
These include Spinel, Peridot, Zircon, Beryl, Tourmaline and Spessartite garnet. All of these have good hardness, clarity and brilliance. Depending on size and colour, quality specimens can be found at prices from £15 to £120 a carat even buying from wholesalers these prices are valid.
When buying fine gemstone jewellery it's important to consider where you buy your gemstone jewellery from as where you buy in the supply chain can have an adverse affect on the price you pay as well as which gemstones you buy.
Buying gemstone jewellery directly from Retailers can increase the cost substantially, than buying the gemstone jewellery directly from the Designer who can purchase gemstones at wholesale prices and directly pass the savings onto the customer.
The Retail Distribution Chain for gemstones and gemstone jewellery can consist of many expensive distribution steps – referred to as "middlemen", and each additional Retail Distribution step in the Distribution Chain can invariably increase each selling price of individual gemstone jewellery pieces by at least 50% of cost.
Buy close to the wholesale designer source for the best competitive prices and you can save hundreds of pounds against Retail prices and still receive the highest quality sterling silver gemstone jewellery at the most affordable prices at the same time "cutting out the middlemen".
Interest in Gemstones With many years of experience buying semi-precious gemstones throughout the world, then designing and creating high quality sterling silver gemstone jewellery, selling through online auction and jewellery websites, the one question that is asked frequently from prospective buyers is "What is the best gemstone investments which give best investment value in the future?"
In reality, this is a very difficult prediction to make as an understanding of the current system for pricing gemstones is of a particular importance, as the current pricing of gemstones have a direct influence on future gemstone investments.
All gemstone values, including gemstone prices increase and decrease according to the direct influence of supply and demand, although realistically gemstone values and prices increase slightly year on year – generally the value of gemstones purchased today will be slightly more expensive than when they were purchased this time last year, and likewise gemstones purchased five years ago was even more expensive than the gemstones bought today – so over time even the best value gemstones year on year increases value.
According to online research (GemSelect.com) who have been tracking gemstone prices over the three years (from 2005 to 2008), gemstone prices increased by a staggering average of 20%, the gemstones which risen in price by the highest amount about 30% in this time scale include Tanzanite and Burmese Ruby. Tsavorite Garnet, Tourmaline and Zircon have seen the smallest price increase of about 15% in the relevant three year period. Zircon, Blue Sapphire, Spessartite Garnet, Spinel and Peridot gemstones have all witnessed price increases of average 20%.
Purely based on the research information, virtually every gemstone variety have increased between 15% and 30% without doubt investing in gemstones especially when the gemstones are incorporated into high quality sterling silver gemstone jewellery has excellent investment value, since the gemstones alone are all likely to be more expensive next year.
Buying online have now transformed the task of selecting and buying loose gemstones at very competitive prices, and finally with the capability of comparing prices of loose gemstones on offer throughout the online world. The internet is responsible for presenting wonderful opportunities for finding a wide selection of gemstones at very competitive prices, which could only be dreamt of many years ago. The internet is especially useful for finding specialized products such as custom designed gemstone jewellery which can be very difficult to find in many places in the world.
To conclude, buying loose gemstones is without doubt a worthwhile investment as have been proven that gemstone prices have and is increasing year on year. With investments in mind, on buying the loose gemstones the only opportunity for storing the loose gemstones is to ‘lock' the gemstones in a cupboard or dressing table. Far better than locking the loose gemstones in a cupboard why not buy Custom Designed Genuine Gemstone Jewellery created with Genuine Sterling Silver Findings which allow your loved ones the opportunity to wear the treasured jewellery and feel the pride of wearing a beautiful gemstone jewellery and a family heirloom which will be available to your children and grandchildren as an investment.
The Future of Gemstones All gemstones, like coal oil and gas are not a renewable commodity and at sometime in the future, virtually all the natural accessibly gemstone quality reserves will become exhausted with no possibility of regeneration or renewal. Ultimately gemstone dealers will only have access to second hand and synthetic gemstones. That unsatisfactory dilemma may become reality not too far in the future.
In reality, is this scenario a realistic possibility? In the developed and developing world where twenty-first century technology is available and even commonplace, worldwide gemstone production is definitely on the decline and has been in decline for many years. In the United States, the decline of natural gemstones, which is used to create gemstone jewellery, between 2000 and 2004 reduced by a massive twenty-five percent, the experts believe the reason for the enormous decline is the high cost of extracting the natural gemstones which is protected by enormous fault lines – extraction of natural gemstones is not cost justifiable.
This issue is replicated throughout Australia at this moment in time, where many of the largest and most valuable sapphire mines have discontinued production, because of the enormous cost of extracting the valuable and precious opals and sapphires from difficult reserves.
In developing world, many very important mining areas have been depleted of natural gemstones, in a very important province of Thailand for example, ruby and sapphire mines are almost non-existent, only one natural gemstones mine exists where there was many – the mines have all been depleted, and the remaining mine is small and insignificant and although excellent quality of natural gemstones, the yearly amount extracted in miniscule compared to ten years previous.
Many of the worlds important natural gemstone extraction mines are in the worlds troubled war zones - Burma, Pakistan, Kenya, Afghanistan, Colombia to name just a few, and being in the worlds troubled areas affect the way the natural gemstones are extracted and the rate at which the lack of security of extracting the gemstones are depleting the future availability of the gemstones.
In the African continent the vast majority of highest quality coloured gemstone extraction is by independent and small scale miners, working in harsh and dangerous environments, natural gemstone extraction in this environment is usually last only about three months of the every year – especially the coloured gemstone tsavorite (green garnet) on the Border of Mozambique and Kenya, miners needing to contend with damgerous wild animals including prides of lions, armed pirates and even the harshest weather extremes on the planet.
Natural gemstones extraction in South East Asia uses primitive and is incapable to increase extraction by using twenty-first century technology as the available natural gemstones is of miniscule amounts to small to exploit. In Sri Lanka, official figures confirm there are 5,000 registered natural gemstone locations on the island.
The vast majority of the natural gemstone mines are no more than three metres by three metres wide and about twenty-five metres deep. On the island, natural gemstone mining involves half a million people, yet the natural gemstone extraction is on the decline.
While most natural gemstones extraction throughout the world is widely distributed and of small scale, the notable exception being South America. Amethyst, citrine and ametrine is extracted at the Anahi Mine which is located in Bolivia. The mine is exemplary for the volume and uniform quality of the natural gemstones available and is the only known extraction mine of ametrine in the world.
Natural gemstone extraction has significantly reduced in South America in the five years, and the worlds gemstone experts and the worlds gemstone dealers are nervously reporting a noticeable shortage of better amethyst rough - extracted as amethyst rough, the carved and polished into high quality amethyst gemstones suitable for the finest gemstone jewellery, as well as the reduced stocks of rare ametrine crystal.
In conclusion, there is growing evidence from relevant gemstone commodity experts throughout the world that the extraction of high quality natural gemstones, and access to the natural gemstones have been depleted at a significant level, and with the worlds supply and demand for gemstones to be incorporating into jewellery for investment purposes, the increasing demand for natural gemstones beyond anything experienced in the past decades, is increasing pressure on world natural gemstones prices.
As a family run business who have been buying natural gemstones throughout the world for more than ten years, have witnessed not only a large increase in world prices, but also a large decrease in the availability of good quality natural gemstones to create fine gemstone jewellery.
Many world gemstone commodity experts are convinced that the natural gemstone market is coming of age finally, and because of the world scarcity of natural gemstones combined with the increased demand of natural gemstones throughout the previous decade, the worlds gemstone commodity experts are convinced the present time is now perfectly ideal for investing in fine natural gemstone jewellery.
Fine natural gemstone jewellery is the ideal future investment because of the worldwide decline in all natural precious and semi-precious resources throughout the previous decade, so to consider purchasing a selection of natural semi-precious gemstones encased forever in genuine sterling silver is an essential future valuable investment opportunity which must be favoured at the earliest opportunity.
The advantage of investing in sterling silver natural semi-precious gemstone jewellery is because with the adverse world economic climate and the affect this has on precious metals including gold and silver increase and sustain high levels of prices unimaginable in the previous decades, with the added advantage that gold and silver prices is maintained at very high price level throughout the period of world economic growth.
The quality of sterling silver is determined by world sterling silver standards, and genuine sterling silver jewellery must comply with the very high sterling silver world standards and will receive a world recognised sterling silver stamp, which will be recognised worldwide as genuine.
Unfortunately, sterling silver is no longer a cheap alternative to creating natural gemstone jewellery, as the commercial wholesale and retail prices of genuine sterling silver findings has rocketed worldwide and these high worldwide prices are here to stay with no future reductions of prices to be expected.
The high cost of creating a genuine sterling silver natural gemstone bracelet is based on the combined costings of sterling silver and natural semi-precious gemstones – example is the high increased of cost of just two of many items required that is sterling silver Clasp and the End Connector.
The sterling silver Clasp usually about 12mm will cost the best part of about five pounds sterling, and the sterling silver End Connector will again cost about one pound and twenty-five pence sterling, in addition to other sterling silver items and Beadalon Stringing Wire, which again is a necessity to creating genuine sterling silver natural gemstone jewellery.
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I am a mature family orientated male living a traditional family lifestyle. I have worked in various employment positions and the current position is in a Youth Offending Team as Project Manager of an extremely busy City Youth Offending Team, thus providing needs based supportive packages - education, leisure, befriending and support, to disenfranchised and socially excluded young people. http://www.GemstoneJewellery4UK.com
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