Garnet ranges from 6 5 to 7 5 on the mohs scale of hardness.
Types of sapphires names.
Some more color varieties of naturally occurring sapphire stones are green sapphires orange sapphires purple sapphires and black sapphires.
Trapiche emerald var enstatite.
Examples of different types of garnets include pyrope almandine spessartine hessonite tsavorite uvarovite and andradite.
These days all gemstones are considered precious since they are all rare and there is a limited supply of them.
The traditional list of gemstones that are considered precious stones are.
We offer a vast selection of blue sapphires pink sapphires yellow sapphires white sapphires and other unique natural sapphires.
Its crystal structure may be a cubic or rhombic dodecahedron belonging to the isometric crystal system.
All of our sapphires are cut on our premises and are available loose or mounted in a custom setting.
Parti sapphires show two or more colors.
Yellow sapphire sometimes also called golden sapphire if intensely colored pink sapphire white sapphire describes sapphire that is colorless green sapphire purple sapphire orange sapphire black sapphire note that there are several other less commonly used variety names of sapphire.
All other gemstones are considered as being semi precious stones.
This list can be seen on the extended gemstone list page.