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Fascination Gemstone
8 August 2025

Green Garnets - Mali, Tsavolite and Demantoid

In addition to the red and orange garnets described in previous blog articles, the green minerals or varieties of this extensive mineral group are particularly important in the gem and jewellery...
Fascination Gemstone
7 August 2025

Garnet - Rhodolite and Mandarin Garnet

The classic garnet is the red garnet, which has been used for jewellery purposes since ancient times ( more information… ). However, during the 20 th century, several gemstones in the garnet group...
Fascination Gemstone
28 December 2024

Red Garnet – Sought After already in Ancient Times

The classic colour of garnets is red. The oldest finds of garnet jewellery as grave goods date back to the Bronze Age over 5000 years ago. Garnet jewellery flourished in antiquity. The Greeks called...
Fascination Gemstone
15 August 2024

Tanzanite

Tanzanite is often called the "stone of the 20th century", as it was discovered in 1967 and became the first popular natural "substitute" for the blue colour of sapphire. Gübelin & Erni (1999) refer...
Fascination Gemstone
6 June 2024

Spinel

The name spinel can be traced back to the 16th century. It was mentioned for the first time in 1533 by C. Leonardi, and Georg Agricola (1494-1555) wrote in "De Natura Fossilium": "If carbuncle shows...
Fascination Gemstone
7 February 2024

Padparadscha

Padparadscha is undoubtedly one of the rarest gemstones. The corundum variety, whose most important deposits are the gemstone placers of the island of Sri Lanka (Ceylon), represents a colour...
Fascination Gemstone
7 February 2024

Emerald

The use of emeralds for jewellery dates to Egyptian times, when greenish crystals found in the Gebel Sikait area were known as early as 3500 BC. The pits in the area later became known as the...