Blue gems
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| Yellow Gems |
| Green Gems |
| Blue Gems |
| Purple Gems |
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Aquamarine, the gem of the sea, derives its name from "sea water". The reference is obvious: aqua sparkles like the sea and its color is pale to medium blue, often with a slight hint of green. |
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Blue Sapphire comes from the Greek word for blue, sappheiros , and this gem provides the most beautiful blues of the gem kingdom. Sapphire is the original “true blue”: the gem of fidelity and of the soul. |
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Blue Topaz. The most affordable of blue gems, blue topaz is a miracle of modern science. the strong icy blue color is created by exposing colorless topaz to irradiation and heat. |
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Blue Zircon is a gem family available in a wide variety of colors including green, dark red, yellow, brown, orange and colorless but the beautiful sky blue is the most popular. The best is found in Cambodia, which produces kingfisher blues not seen anywhere else. |
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Lolite. The name iolite comes from the Greek ios, which means violet. Iolite is a purplish blue gem treasured by the Vikings. |
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Royal Kings Plain Sapphire. This rare sapphire is mined in the Australian state of New South Wales. The Kings Plain Mine is actually an ancient dry riverbed. Miners move ten cubic meters of earth to find two carats of sapphire. |
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Tanzanite is mined only one place in the world: Merelani in Tanzania, in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro. Tanzanite was named after the country of its birth by Tiffany & Co, who introduced the gemstone to the world market in 1969. |