If there is a color that is closest to nature and will make people feel comfortable, it must be green.
Green in psychology represents freshness, hope. Psychologists generally believe that the wavelength of green is relatively long, which can make people feel calm, which is why when people feel tired, seeing green can feel much easier.
But in jewelry, when it comes to green, often people's first reaction is: arrogance!
In fact, in gemstones and jade, green is not only a "bold" color, but also has many different visual sensations depending on the saturation of green gemstones. Today we will take stock of the "salty and sweet" green in the jewelry world.
First, let's take a look at the green varieties of the dazzling gemstones
Green diamonds
Green and blue-green diamonds are usually formed due to changes in the electronic structure of the diamond due to the long-term influence of natural radiation during the diamond formation process.
Green diamonds are extremely rare, its green color is often only distributed on the small layer of the most surface, and it is removed with a little cutting, and the green diamond with a thick green body is simply one of the best.
Even gem-quality green diamonds are rarely able to show a distinct green body color.
When a pale green diamond has a slight hint of blue in it, a mint-green green diamond is formed.
Emerald
Emerald, one of the "five precious stones" recognized by the international jewelry industry, is the "top pillar" of the beryl family, because of its unique green color, it is the most famous one of green gemstones.
Although it is famous for its green color, emerald green also has a strong and light color.
Since there is currently no clear standard for the classification of colored gemstones in the world, different color treasure laboratories have their own grading systems for the color grading of emeralds. We've covered it in detail in previous articles.
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In addition to color, clarity, degree of oil immersion optimization, origin, and carat weight all have a direct impact on the value of emeralds.
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Golden emerald
In the West, the emerald is one of the five most famous precious stones.
According to the presence or absence of its special optical effects, the main varieties of common emeralds in the market can be roughly divided into three types: cat's eye, stone change, and ordinary emerald.
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Emeralds are typically light to medium yellow to yellowish green, gray-green, brown to yellowish brown, and, rarely, light blue.
In general, the green color of the golden emerald has a yellow hue, and it seems that the color color is not rich or fresh.
Only vanadium emeralds containing the element "vanadium" will have a refreshing "mint green" color.
Vanadium emerald was first discovered in Tanzania in the mid-1990s, and later in Ilakaka, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, and Mogok, Myanmar.
The addition of vanadium and "chromium" gives vanadium emeralds a unique mint-green hue, which makes them look completely different from ordinary yellow-green gemstones colored by "iron" and the price is very different.
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Green sapphire
In the color treasure world, there is a gemstone with high hardness, high dispersion, and a variety of colors, which makes ordinary people stupid and unclear. It is the most successful pretender in the world of colored gemstones, the sapphire.
Sapphire is a common term for corundum gemstones of other colors besides rubies. So in addition to blue sapphires, there are colorless white sapphires and colorful sapphires.
Green sapphires contain iron, cobalt, vanadium; Among colored sapphires, green sapphires have a relatively small appearance rate, and are commonly blue-green and yellow-green.
Most green sapphires are not too bright in color and have color bands; If you come across a green sapphire with bright color, good clarity and large size, it is definitely a collection not to be missed.
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garnet
Most people's perception of garnet is red or purple, but in fact, in the garnet family, the most expensive varieties of carats are green.
- demantoid
Garnet (calcareous garnet) is the most precious variety of the garnet family, and the gem-quality garnet color is dominated by yellow-green, fruit green, emerald green, and brownish green.
Garnet has a higher dispersion than diamond, so it shines incomparably, and is the most expensive in the russian origin, the most obvious feature is the filamentous inclusion containing hair-like asbestos "horsetail".
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- Tshaffle
The most famous of the travertine garnet family is the Schaffle, which was excavated in the 1960s and was introduced to the world through Tiffany's hands in just over a dozen years.
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The unique vibrant green color of Tsavray is caused by the rare chromium and vanadium in its body. Because the color is close to emerald, the crystal is relatively clean, and it is deeply loved by the majority of jewelry lovers.
- "Mint garnet" Merelani mint
Travertine garnet is an important branch of the garnet family, and the "schaufere" we have just finished talking about and the "cinnamon garnet" that we have written about before belong to this branch.
Perhaps you don't know, in recent years, a niche garnet with a fresh color has quietly become popular, and the mint green "mint garnet" is also a member of the travertine garnet branch.
Domestically, this mint-green calcium-aluminum garnet is called "mint garnet" and abroad is called "Merelani mint", named after the meloni mountain in Tanzania.
Like Rubylai and Paraíba in tourmaline, mint garnet is singled out as a commercial variety because of its characteristic color, but in gemology, the essence of mint garnet is a vanadium-containing travertine garnet.
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Tourmaline
There are many sub-varieties of tourmaline green: dark green chrome tourmaline, recently exploded blue-green Ragon tourmaline, yellow-green tourmaline, fresh mint green tourmaline, niche green Paraíba tourmaline and so on.
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Overall, tourmaline is a stone that is prone to dark domains, so most green tourmalines will look dark as long as the color is slightly thicker.
And pale green tourmaline is not well cut is also easy to appear dull and tasteless (such as yellow-green tourmaline), the pursuit of fresh color and not dull taste can consider mint green tourmaline or green Paraíba tourmaline.
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Mint green tourmaline
Green Paraíba tourmaline
zircon
Natural Zircon is the December birthstone, also known as zircon. Zircon is loved by the jewelry industry for its strong luster, high dispersion, and rich color.
Natural zircon is very rich in color, and green zircon is also a variety of natural zircon. However, the green system in zircon is generally dark green, and pure and bright green zircon is rare.
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When many people hear the name green zircon, they think of the "low-type zircon" with radiation.
In fact, green zircon is not all low-type zircon, the color is dark green to blackened, the inclusion is cloudy is low-type zircon; Pure, bright, high-clarity green high-profile zircon is a unique color in the zircon family and a favorite of gemstone collections.
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olivine
The green color of peridot is bound to have a hint of yellow.
The thick green peridot also has a special name, "Dusk Emerald", also called "Evening Primrose Emerald".
Gem-grade peridot is divided into intense yellow-green, golden-green, yellow-green, and intense green. The saturation of the peridot color increases with the increase in iron content.
But if iron is from bivalent to trivalent, that is, oxidized, it will bring a brown tone to peridot and reduce its value.
In short, the greener the color, the higher the value.
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diopside
Diopside is a thick green pyroxene family of gemstones, but the disadvantage is that it is less hard, resulting in poor wear resistance.
High-quality and thick-colored transophomothene is often ridiculed by insiders in the jewelry circle as "the flat replacement of emeralds", but even if the color is bright and dripping, dipyroxene and emerald have a fatal weakness, that is, the hardness is too low, and the Mohs hardness of diopside is only about 5.
prehnite
Grape stone is a silicate mineral, the top grape stone has a delicate texture, transparent appearance, tender green color. The appearance is very similar to that of Qingshui jadeite.
However, compared with high-ice jadeite, even the most advanced grape stone color has a yellow hue. The distinction between yellow tones is slightly weaker in the egg face, but is particularly pronounced in the engravings.
Green crystal
Most of the green crystal is formed by heating amethyst, and the natural output is relatively rare; It has been found in Brazil, Zimbabwe, and California, USA, and most of the causes are caused by the heating of the geological environment around the formation process.
Most of the green crystals on the market are obtained by artificially heating amethysts.
In addition to gemstones, the green varieties in jade are also very popular, the most famous of which are jadeite, Hetian jade, as well as well-known turquoise, malachite, Australian jade commonly used in foreign fine jewelry and so on...
jadeite
Emerald colors are very rich, including colorless, green, purple, yellow, and combination colors.
The color of jadeite is rich, yang, pretty, positive, and beautiful, that is, the color is heavy, bright and bright, the saturation is high, the color is pure and not biased, and the color is uniform.
Among the various colors of jadeite, the most mainstream and most popular is green.
Green is common imperial green, yang green, yellow yang green, apple green, light green, blue green, oil green, there are subtle changes between each, the color difference is one, the price difference is ten times.
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The green varieties of Hetian jade, the most famous of which is the well-known jasper.
Although you know jasper, you may not be able to distinguish the variety of jaspers divided by color.
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According to the different colors, jasper is subdivided into: spinach green, yang green, apple green, pink green, pink green, duck egg green.
The same is jasper, with different colors, different quality, and different prices.
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If you say that in addition to jasper, which other Hetian jade varieties have green color?
It must be that in recent years, there has also been a "black horse with green color" in the Hetian jade variety: it is the emerald green material in the Qinghai material.
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Serpentine stony jade
Serpentine jade is widely distributed in the mainland, and according to different origins and characteristics, serpentine jade is divided into many commercial varieties. Among them, there are many colors of green serpentine jade.
The most famous source of continental serpentine jade is xiuyan in Liaoning, and it is also produced in Gansu, Guangxi, Guangdong, Shandong, Taiwan and other provinces. New Zealand, the United States, and North Korea also produce serpentine jade.
The first most famous is Xiuyu, the green color of Xiuyu is not bright enough, the saturation is not high, usually with a yellow band dirty tone.
Taishan jade from Tai'an, Shandong Province, is also a kind of serpentine jade, which is characterized by too dark and black color, and is accompanied by black spots.
turquoise
Turquoise (Turquoise) is mainly composed of a copper-aluminum phosphate mineral with water content. The color of turquoise can be divided into three categories: blue, green, and variegated.
Common colours are light to medium blue, greenish blue to green, often with fine white lines, spots, brownish-black veins (iron wires), or dark mineral impurities.
In China, according to the different colors of turquoise, green pine is also divided into: sky blue, blue white, rapeseed yellow and so on.
In general, compared with blue turquoise, the price of turquoise in green tones is relatively low, which is quite cost-effective.
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malachite
Malachite is a copper-containing carbonate mineral that, in addition to having a bright and beautiful green color, is also commonly accompanied by green variety stripes.
Because of its beautiful appearance, malachite is favored by big jewelry brands.
But when God opens a door, he always closes a window.
Although malachite has a noble green color and a beautiful pattern, there are shortcomings that cannot be ignored: low hardness (malachite's Morris hardness is 3.5 to 4), brittle, not tough enough, and not resistant to corrosion, so be careful when wearing.
Australian jade
Usually the streak-free structure of cryptocrystalline quartz aggregates are called chalcedony, and most of the "inexpensive" chalcedony on the market is dyed with white jade chalcedony.
In natural chalcedony, green chalcedony is relatively rare, of which Australian chalcedony (referred to as Australian jade) is the most valuable.
Because of its fresh and beautiful color, Australian jade is deeply loved by big jewelry brands, and it can be seen in many big-name couture jewelry.
But because of this, the price of Australian jade is far more than any one of the chalcedony family, and the price of high-quality Australian jade with good color and texture is calculated at the unit price of carats, hundreds or even thousands.
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