Precious Gems And Jewels

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Precious Gems And Jewels

• Facts Of Precious Gems And Other Jewels
• By Matthew Black

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Bloodstones

• Bloodstone and Aquamarine are traditional
  birthstones of Pisces (fish.) In the middle ages,
  bloodstone was attributed special powers as the
  spots were thought to be the blood of Jesus
  Christ.
• from the Encycl. Of Gemstones
• Bloodstones are sometimes multi-colored. Like the
  picture in the top right corner. Dont think its
  Opal. Its Bloodstone.

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Jasper

• Jasper is a excellent Jewel or gem with all of
  its colors.
• The Jasper exhibits various colors, but chiefly
  brick red to brownish red. It owes its color to
  admixed Hematite, but when it occurs with clay
  admixed, the color is a yellowish white or gray,
  or with goethite, a brown or yellow. Often Jasper
  is multi-colored. Jasper was known as the great
  rain-bringer in the fourth century.
• from the Encycl. Of Gemstones

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The Sapphire

• Did you know that the sapphire can come in
  all sorts of colors? Three colors of the sapphire
  are red, yellow and blue. Blue is the main
  color of the sapphire gem. Blue is also the
  favorite color of the sapphire.
• from the Encycl. of Gemstones