Light Green Stone With White Lines

Translucent grey color with occasional banding.

Light green stone with white lines. For secondary hues most people prefer a hint of blue to a yellowish green stone. Beside white and yellow nephrite also produces green rocks although these green semi precious stones are deemed inferior in quality compared to the chemically unrelated variety of jade jadeite. In general a pure green hue is the most desirable and more expensive. When someone asks you to name a green gemstone you most probably think of emerald but there are many other green stones including tourmaline chrome diopside chrome tourmaline peridot chrysoprase tsavorite chrysoberyl bloodstone alexandrite and jade.

Flat faces of the crystals catch and reflect light to give the stone a glittering appearance. Emerald forest jade kelly green lime malachite moss olive and sea green. This optical phenomenon is known as a. Clear with green black inclusions.

Emerald emerald ranges widely from a light green with a slight bluish tint to a deep rich green and from opaque to translucent. The line of light reminds people of the line shaped pupil in the eye of a tiger thus the name. Chrysoberyl often contains oriented inclusions that produce a sharp line of light across the surface of the stone in reflected light. Goldstone is a man made glass that contains abundant crystals with a bright metallic luster.

Dark stone blending black grey and brown colors with cream specks. Uniformly colored stones are less common. Opal opal ranges in color from white with an appearance of multicolor in the light to fire opals which are a vibrant orange or scarlet. Yellow green stones can still be quite attractive but won t reach top dollar.

Calacatta is a natural stone from italy. Deeper colored stones are more valuable and the most valuable form is called imperial jade which is emerald green in color and translucent. A white and light green color combination is a very common form and darker stones usually have black mottling. Light opal or white opal are terms used for an opal material with.

This italian variety has lasted for centuries and is the protagonist of many relevant architectural projects dated in the period of classical rome the renaissance and the baroque. Green gems may have blue or yellow secondary hues present. Jade gemstones are often multicolored or mottled. When moved under a bright light such as direct sunlight or a bright lamp in the room the fibers in the stone reflect a line of light that moves across the surface of the stone when it is moved.

Grey black brown jasper zebra. It has a very peculiar chromatism in which broken white and very fine light grey veins are punctually dotted with tiny amber and golden notes. All opals are opaque. Amazonite is a trade name given to a light green to bright green variety of microcline feldspar.

Honey brown to dark brown to golden brown. Nephrites are translucent to opaque with the shades of the green gemstones varying from light to dark green. It is a calcitic white marble.