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Precious Metals and Stones

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Precious Metals and Stones

The 4 C´s :Color

Clarity Cut

Carrot weight

This is a natural emerald found at a farm in North Carolina.

Emeralds are found all over the world.

This emerald has been cut.

These are raw sapphires. We say raw when they are natural.

These are what they look like when they are cut.

Star sapphires are polished in a way that they reflect the light in a star shape.

Sapphires are mined all over Asia and

some countries Africa.

Most Diamonds come from Africa.

They are the hardest mineral in the world.

Debears is a huge monopoly which controls the diamond market.

Rough Diamonds

Diamonds come in all colors. These remind me of candies

This one looks like a piece of ice.

Modern Cushion Cut Diamond.

The most common type of diamond cut

is the Brilliant.

Here is a close up view of a Brilliant cut diamond.

Emerald cut diamond

The hope diamond is the biggest in the world. All previous owners have died of strange

deaths.

This is a red Ruby. The ruby is the most valuable stone in the world.

The reason is because they are scarce.

Raw pink rubies.

This ruby has been cut

Most rubies are mined in Thailand and Cambodia.

The largest one in the world is from Burma.

It weighs 23.1 carats.

Semi- precious stones are more common .

But in my opinion

they are just as beautiful.

Celestial Blue quartz.

Giants cave in Mexico has the largest quartz crystals

in the world.

Amethyst is purple quartz. Peru has alot of these stones.

When they are cut they look like purple diamonds.

Citrine is yellow quartz.

The mountains of Peru are full of citrine.

American cut citrine.

Aqua Marine quartz is the color of sea water.

Tourmaline is quartz that comes in green and brown.

This is cherry quartz that is being excited by a frequency generator and

synthetic vortex.

Precious Metals

Silver in natural form.

Platinum