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What's your favorite gemstone? Are you expecting to get any rings or jewelry this holiday season?
I like Amethyst and then Bloodstone, even though my birthstone is Peridot.
I would say that it is amber with insect inclusion.
“By its properties, inclusions in amber favorably differ from prints in sedimentary rocks and due to this can be studied in such detail as modern organisms. Therefore, pieces of amber with inclusions are of great value for science.
Based on microscopic remnants of animals and plants, along the petals of flowers, spores and seeds, scientists recreate the appearance of mysterious forest that grew millions of years ago. Only thanks to amber, about 3 thousand species of arthropods (from 838 thousand known to science), living in the forest 40 million years ago, as well as about 200 plant species were discovered.
It should be noted that amber with inclusions of insects also have great commercial value. At the beginning of our era, Phoenician merchants paid 120 swords and 60 daggers for amber containing a buried flies. At the beginning of the XIX century, amber with insects was especially fashionable in France and in Russia.”
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My birthstone is Emerald, but I love aquamarines and sapphires:) I'm big on blue, oh and amethyst:). I'm not expecting any jewelry, but let's cross our fingers:)
aquamarine- I am not going to get one of these for the holidays.
amethyst- is also a favorite as well as agate cabochons- very cool.
I love amethyst I am going to give it to my mom for christmas and that is her birth stone
I like the classic diamond.
No rings this year- I've got some hot rollers instead!
I got a ring last Christmas - so I know I'm not getting one again this year.
