Light Blue Gem

There are also much lighter or softer blue stones with the most common of the lighter stones being topaz and aquamarine.

Light blue gem. Fine facetable crystals are rare and collectible. Often purple is a secondary color in tanzanite stones. The mineral beryl occurs in a variety of colors. It ranks at 6 5 to 7 on the mohs scale and with good care can last a very long time.

Here are several good examples of famous light blue gemstone names and their meanings. Favorite add to. Named for blue hues that can resemble sapphire sapphirine can have light to dark blue to blue green hues. Most people don t know that there is another blue beryl.

Aquamarine is the second most popular gem of beryl. They are much less costly and are used to make inexpensive jewelry. Light blue beryls with a low saturation are also called aquamarine. It is a very dark blue gem known as maxixe pronounced mashish.

Some transparent specimens occur in sri lanka but other locales usually don t produce high quality blue gemstones. As the color suggests the gemstone reflects calmness quiet reflection and shooting quality for anxious or angry mind. Natural amazonite matte round beads 14mm amazonite gemstone beads light blue gemstone natural blue gemstones 14mm gemstone 15inch selectbeads. Sapphire s blue color can range from light blue to deep blue.

Sapphire is the best known blue gemstone though it also occurs in many other colors. Tanzanite is often believed to be an underrated gemstone as it is as beautiful as more expensive blue gemstones but not as popular. These blue gems come from the variety of tourmaline called indicolite from the word indigo though the gemstone may be a light blue not necessarily indigo. 4 5 out of 5 stars 4 141 4 141 reviews 7 90.

The finest of these blue crystals is known as the paraiba tourmaline which is among the most expensive of blue gemstones owing to its brilliant turquoise color. Tanzanite ranges from light blue to intense vivid blue. Since sapphire is a gem quality form of corundum it is incredibly hard and durable with a hardness of 9 on the mohs scale. Blue lace agate as it is known is usually banded in layers of light blue bright blue stripes and threads of brown.

This is a type of quartz with subtle blue color and almost translucent surface and has soothing soft shade.