Jewelry and watches - especially tourmaline and lapis lazuli ornates
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you can find quality jewelry items for an affordable prize. Please scroll down
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Some good online warehouses for jewelry and watches
Robust ornates for active people, made of titanium, tungsten carbide, carborundum and other tough noble materials
Luxury Italian and European jewelry, apparel, bags, shoes and decors of high artistic value. By clicking at this product link you will find this product and see the whole store too
A great diamond shop, but also a great inventory of pieces with colored stones, engagement and wedding rings is also a speciality. Also many fine watches.
A general store with a lot of jewelry and apparel, much body jewelry and a great inventory of watches for very law prices.
A store for discounted electronics and software, including smart watches, digital watches and analog watches
Here are a few of the available jewelry pieces exhibited
Here are a few of the available watches exhibited
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Useful information
About noble metals
Properties and definitions about gemstones
Chemistry and physics of gemstones
About the minerals and gemstones in
the quarts group
Gemstones in the corundum group -
rubines and saphires
Beryl group gemstones, garnets,
topaz
What characterizes dive watche
Tourmaline group gemstones - down at this page
Lapiz lazuli - down at this page
How does gemstones get their colours
About perls and nacre
The tourmaline group of gemstones
Tourmaline crystal - The crystal is 0.8 inches or 2 cm long. The crystal has
several colours indicating slight differences of chemical composition in the
crystal. Such layered differnces indicate that the crystal has grown
gradually with material from a source that has changed slightly in
composition over time. (Free picture from wikipedia.org)
Lapis lazuli piece - Lapiz lasuli is a
rock art consisting of different minerals, of which Lazurite is the most
abundant. The white traces are the mineral calcite and the brassy spots are
Pyrite. (Free picture from wikipedia.org)
Tourmaline consists of 3-sided cylindrical crystals, but the crystals are seldome perfectly composed, and may show extra sides. The crystal can have nearly any color and the color can vary within one and the same crystal with shades going ito each other.
Tourmaline is divided in many subgroups according to color, for example
• Dravite subgroup: Brown - dravite.
• Schorl subgroup: Black - schorl.
• Elbaite subgroup named after the Island elba in Italy: Rose or pink - rubellite. Dark blue - indicolite. Light blue - Brazilian sapphire. Green - verdelite or Brazilian emerald. Colorless - achroite
Tourmaline is mostly transparent, but somwhat opaquely.
Tourmaline is mostly a silicate of aluminium and borone, but with a lot of other metallic ions entered into the crystallic lattice. It is of the trigonal crystal type. The colors of the crystals depend upon the chemical composition: Iron-rich tourmalines are from black to bluish-black to deep brown. Magnesium-rich crystals are vary between brown and yellow. Lithium-rich tourmalines can exhibit any color: blue, green, red, yellow, pink etc. Tourmaline can rarely be colorless.
The chemical formula of tourmaline varies according to type, and also to some extend within the same crystal. The following is a typical composition of tourmaline:
Na(Al,Fe,Li,Mg,Mn,Cu,V,Cr)3(Al,Mg,Fe,V,Cr)6[(Si,Al,B)6O18](BO3)3(OH,F,O)
The crystals are pizoelectric (making elctronic displacements upon external force) and also often pyroelectric (making electric displacements upon warming). Because warm crystals get electrically charged oppositely in the two ends, they can attract a lot of dust when warmed.
The hardness of tourmaline is 7 - 7.5, and the mineral is of the density 2.82 - 3.32. The crystals cleave and fracture in an indistinct irregular manner. It shows a white streak.
The main geografical origine of tourmaline today is Brazil, Africa and Sri Lanka. The mineral is found many other places, for example in Maine and California - USA. Tourmaline is mostly in igneous rocks, especially in granite and granite pegmatite, and in metamorphic rocks, such as schist and marble.
To see examples of tourmaline objects, please scroll up.
The lapis lazuli group of gemstones
Lapis lazuli is a deeply blue opaque rock art, composed of several minerals. The stone may have tiny spots of goldish yellow or other colors spread throughout the specimen, or have a silvery or golden shine due to minerals of other colors than blue. The rock may show veins of white minerals, but such structures are generally not appiciated.
The main component of lapis lazuli is lazurite (25% to 40%), a feldspatoide mineral composed of sodium, aluminium, silicon, oxygen, sulfur and chlorine. The stone also also contains calcite (white), sodalite (blue) and pyrite (yellow), and may also contain augite, diopside, enstatite, mica, hornblende and nosean.
Lazurite's formula is (Na,Ca)8(AlSiO4)6(S,SO4,Cl)1-2.
The stone has been used as a gem in at least 8000, years and was a very popular gem in ancient India and Egypt.
In Egypt this stone was the most important for amulets and jewelry. The use of the stone is very varied: Jewelry, carvings, boxes, mosaics, ornaments and vases. It has also been used for cladding the walls and columns of palaces and churches.
The finest lapis comes from the Badakshan area of Afghanistan. Other origines of the stone are Andes near Ovalle in Chile. The stones has also been found near Leke Baikhal in Russia, Siberia, Angola, Burma, California, Colorado, India and Canada.
To see examples of lapis objects, please scroll up.
