GEMSTONES
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A gemstone, gem or also called precious or semi-precious stone is a highly attractive and valuable piece of mineral, which — when cut and polished — is used in jewelry or other adornments.
Labradorite
Chemical formula: ((Ca,Na)(Al,Si)4O8)
Description: Labradorite's principal base color is blue, but it can occur in a wide variety of colors such as green, orange, red, and yellow.
Labradorite derives its name from the principal location that it is found, Paul's Island Labrador, a region of Atlantic Canada.
Chrysoberyl
Chemical formula: BeAl2O4
Description: The name chrysoberyl is derived from the Greek words chrysos and beryllos, meaning " golden " and "gem crystal".
An interesting feature of uncut crystals of chyrsoberyl are the cyclic twins called trillings. These twinned crystals have a hexagonal appearance, but are the result of a triplet of twins with each "twin" taking up 120 degrees of the cyclic trilling.
Sapphire
Chemical formula: Al2O3
Description: Although blue is considered the normal color for sapphires, they can be found across a full range of spectral colors as well as brown, colorless, grey and black. Those other than blue in color are considered fancy color sapphires. Some natural sapphires can be found as completely transparent, or "white". White sapphires usually come out of the ground as light grey or brown and are then heated to make them clear. However, in very rare circumstances they will be found in a clear state.
These stones contain the trace element vanadium and come in a variety of shades. Yellow and green sapphires have traces of iron that gives them their color. Pink sapphires have a trace of the element chromium and the deeper the color pink the higher their monetary value as long as the color is going toward the red of rubies. Sapphires also occur in shades of orange and brown, and colorless sapphires are sometimes used as diamond substitutes in jewelry.
Alexandrite:
Chemical formula: BeAl2O4
Description: This rare gemstone is named after the Russian tsar Alexander II (1818-1881). The best known and most widely used variety of chrysoberyl is an alexandrite. Because of its great power of absorption of certain colors, alexandrite looks green in daylight and reddish purple in artificial light.
Alexandrite is a remarkable and valued variety of chrysoberyl that when viewed along the different crystallographic (optical) axes, changes from columbine red to orange yellow to emerald green.
The most sensational feature about this stone, however, is its surprising ability to change its colour. Green or bluish-green in daylight, alexandrite turns a soft shade of red, purplish-red or raspberry red in incandescent light. This unique optical characteristic makes it one of the most valuable gemstones of all, especially in fine qualities.
The more distinct the change of colour, the more valuable the stone.
Jasper:
Jasper is an opaque, impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow or brown in color. This mineral breaks with a smooth surface, and is used for ornamentation or as a gemstone. It can be highly polished and is used for vases, seals, and at one time for snuff boxes. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called striped or banded jasper. Jaspilite is a banded iron formation rock that often has distinctive bands of jasper. Jasper is basically chert which owes its red color to iron(III) inclusions.
Opal:
The mineraloid opal is amorphous SiO2·nH2O, hydrated silicon dioxide. The water content is usually between three and ten percent, but can be as high as 20%. Opal ranges from clear through white, gray, red, yellow, green, shore, blue, magenta, brown, and black.
Amethyst:
Amethyst is a purple variety of quartz often used as an ornament. The name comes from the Greek a ("not") and methustos ("to intoxicate"), a reference to the belief that the stone protected its owner from drunkenness; the ancient Greeks and Romans wore amethyst and made drinking vessels of it in the belief that it would prevent intoxication.
Apatite:
Apatite is one of few minerals that are produced and used by biological micro-environmental systems. Hydroxylapatite is the major component of tooth enamel. A relatively rare form of apatite in which most of the OH groups are absent and containing many carbonate and acid phosphate substitutions is a large component of bone material.
Rose quartz:
Rose quartz is a type of quartz which exhibits a pale pink to rose red hue. The color is usually considered as due to trace amounts of titanium, iron, or manganese, in the massive material. Some rose quartz contains microscopic rutile needles which produces an asterism in transmitted light. Recent X-ray diffraction studies suggest that the color is due to thin microscopic fibers of possibly dumortierite within the massive quartz.
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OUR NATURAL GEMSTONES
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Labradorite
Labradorite can produce a colorful play of light across cleavage planes and in sliced sections called labradorescence. The usually intense colors range from the typical blues and violets through greens, yellows and oranges. Some rare specimens display all these colors simultaneously.
Available 10-20 Ton per month
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 Chrysoberyl
Chrysoberyl is normally yellow, yellow-green, or brownish with its color being caused by the presence of iron. Spectroscopic analysis will usually reveal a strong band where the violet takes over from the blue. As the color darkens from bright yellowish-green to golden-yellow to brown, this band increases in strength. When the stone has a strong color, two additional bands can be seen in the green-blue.
Size: 0,5 gram |
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 Chrysoberyl
Chrysoberyl is the third hardest naturally occurring gemstone and lies between corundum and topaz on the hardness scale. Chrysoberyl is a mineral consisting of ordinary colorless or yellow transparent chrysoberyl, cymophane (chrysoberyl cat's eye), and alexandrite.
Size: 0,3 gram |
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 Turmaline
Tourmaline is a crystal silicate mineral compounded with elements such as aluminum, iron, magnesium, sodium, lithium, potassium. Tourmaline gem stones come in a wide variety of colors. We can supply black and red turmaline in quantity 1-2 tons per month. Please contact for prices |
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 Purpure sapphire
Color shift sapphires are blue in outdoor light and purple unde indoor light. Color changes may also be pink in daylight to greenish under fluorescent light. Some stones shift color well and others only partially, in that some stones go from blue to bluish purple. Purple sapphires are lower in price than blue ones.
Size: 0,5 gram |
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 Green sapphire
What makes the sapphire so fancy?
Its beauty, its magnificent colours, its transparency, but also its constancy and durability are qualities associated with this gemstone by gemstone lovers and specialists alike
Size: 0,5 gram |
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 Blue sapphire
Blue is the main colour of the sapphire. Various shades of blue [dark and light] result from titanium and iron substitutions in the aluminum oxide crystal lattice. The sapphire symbolises loyalty, but at the same time it gives expression to people's love and longing.
Size: 0,5 gram |
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 Blue sapphire
Sapphires really are gems of the sky. The sapphire belongs to the corundum group, the members of which are characterised by their excellent hardness (9 on the Mohs scale). Indeed their hardness is exceeded only by that of the diamond – and the diamond is the hardest mineral on Earth!
Size: 0.5 gram
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 Alexandrite
This is a natural alexandrite stone. Alexandrite is a beautiful rare stone which is quite expensive. It is very difficult to find natural alexandrite. Most Alexandrites on the market are synthetic. Alexandrite rings are very beautiful. If Alexandrite is set in a ring, the wearer can watch the color change.
Weight: 1,5 gram
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 Jasper - orange
This is a natural jasper stone. We have available jasper in diffrent colors: orange- red, brown and green.
Available: 10 -20 tons per month. Please contact for prices
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 Opal - fire, common
There are natural opal stones. Comes as little stones, blocks bolls.
Available: 10 -20 tons per month. Please contact for prices
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 Amethyst violet
There are natural amethyst stones. Comes as little stones and big blocks.
Available: 100 -200 kg. per month. Please contact for prices
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 Apatite blue & green 
These natural apatite comes from our mine as little stones.
Available: 10 tons per month. Please contact for prices
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 Rose & Smoky quartz 
These natural rose and smokey quartz comes from our mine as stones.
Available: 10 - 20 tons per month. Price depends on quality and sizes. Please contact for prices
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