What are your top 5 favorite gemstones

[LD]

1. Mystic Topaz
2. Flamingo Topaz
3. Mercury Mist Topaz
4. Fusion Myst Topaz
5. Neptune Garden Topaz

I need to go and lie down now, I''m not feeling well

 

[T L]

Date: 1/3/2010 4:37:15 PM
Author: LovingDiamonds
1. Mystic Topaz
2. Flamingo Topaz
3. Mercury Mist Topaz
4. Fusion Myst Topaz
5. Neptune Garden Topaz

I need to go and lie down now, I''m not feeling well

Don''t forget Paraiba topaz LD.

 

[LD]

Date: 1/3/2010 4:47:23 PM
Author: tourmaline_lover

Date: 1/3/2010 4:37:15 PM
Author: LovingDiamonds
1. Mystic Topaz
2. Flamingo Topaz
3. Mercury Mist Topaz
4. Fusion Myst Topaz
5. Neptune Garden Topaz

I need to go and lie down now, I''m not feeling well

Don''t forget Paraiba topaz LD.

Oh no, I like that! It goes with my Paraiba Apatite and my Tanzanite Iolite Topaz!

 

[Brown.Eyed.Girl]

1) Sapphires
2) Tourmalines
3) Spinels
4) Garnets
5) Aquamarines

 

[marcy]

Sapphires - the only color of sapphire I don''t care for is the dark, navy blue
Spinel - love them especially in pinks and purples
Garnets - all of them are nice but tsavorite, spessartitie and rhodolite are amazing
Aquamarine - my jewelry purchasing began looking for a great colored aqua
Tanzanite - love the color

 

[Arkteia]

Considering that I already have a demantoid, an alexandrite, a Mahenge spinel, a ruby that is flux-healed but still looks nice, and some spessartines that I like...

- A Kashmir sapphire, (a Burmese one would do, if it is brilliant cut and can "hold" the color
- Another alexandrite, maybe a smaller one, around 1-ct, Russian
- A Burmese spinel
- A Siberian (Uralian) amethyst, coming from Russia
- I''ve never seen a "live" paraiba but Loving Diamond''s photographs are so nice - I probably should add it to the list

 

[Gleam]

Emeralds
Tsavorites
Sapphires
Spinel
Tourmaline

But I''m still learning... I''ve been calling in love with chrysoberyls lately...

 

[chrono]

Date: 1/3/2010 4:49:40 PM
Author: LovingDiamonds

Date: 1/3/2010 4:47:23 PM
Author: tourmaline_lover

Date: 1/3/2010 4:37:15 PM
Author: LovingDiamonds
1. Mystic Topaz
2. Flamingo Topaz
3. Mercury Mist Topaz
4. Fusion Myst Topaz
5. Neptune Garden Topaz

I need to go and lie down now, I''m not feeling well

Don''t forget Paraiba topaz LD.

Oh no, I like that! It goes with my Paraiba Apatite and my Tanzanite Iolite Topaz!

OMG, you ladies are a hoot!

 

[mufiin_top]

1. Traffic lightTsavorite. Green is my favoritre color and I have never seen a greener green than a tsavorite.
2. Red spinel. Red is my 2nd favorite color and spinel is very durable and lustrous.
3. Kashmiri sapphire. I don't usually care for blue, but these things glow.
4. Diamond. Refraction and duability.
5. Tanzanite. I love electric violet, but these are too soft for some uses.

 

[loriken214]

1. Sapphire - blue is my favorite
2. Diamond - a nice chunky facet OEC
3. Spinel - pink is my favorite, but I''ll take any color
4. Tourmaline - green is my favorite, but pink is next
5. Garnet - pink is my favorite, then tsavorite, then any color

Lori

 

[lavatea]

Oooh, I''ll play!

Disclaimer: I''m very, very new at stones. So here''s my newbie list (in no particular order because I''m bad at decisions):

1)blue sapphire - one that glows, but isn''t too light of a color
2)blue green tourmaline - like that beautiful one of bling addict''s that was set by Brian Gavin
3)opal - my birthstone, no doublets or triplets
4)tsavorite
5)spinel - a bright pinkish-red one

I also love diamonds (of all colors), peridot, aquamarine, pink tourmaline, tanzanite (not too lilac and definitely not blue), just about everything else (although I will say that for the most part orangey stones are way down the list).

 

[Arcadian]

Date: 1/3/2010 2:27:32 AM
Author:mara82
If you could only own 5 gemstones what would they be and why?

Your question is too hard.

-A

 

[Kim Bruun]

1. Tanzanite, easily. I have one that is a dark, richly saturated purplish blue with lots of fire. I love it.
2. Corundum. Pinks, violets, light purples, rubies, and sapphires - all glorious when richly saturated.
3. Spinel - as per above. also, the stone''s durability and relative obscurity makes it that much more attractive.
4. Tsavorite - rich greens and lots of fire. Yes, please!
5. Cuprian tourmaline - whether natural pink/purple or heated to neon blue green, these are among the most deliciously vulgar and flashy gemstones.

 

[Kim Bruun]

Date: 1/3/2010 10:27:32 PM
Author: Gleam
Emeralds
Tsavorites
Sapphires
Spinel
Tourmaline

But I''m still learning... I''ve been calling in love with chrysoberyls lately...

I love chrysoberyls too! Especially the ones that are midway between canary yellow and apple green! I actually prefer these to alexandrites (at least until I find an alexandrite that goes from emerald green to ruby red rather than teal green to burgundy).

 

[redfaerythinker]

1. Tsavorite Garnet
2. Cuprian Tourmaline (or any blue-green Tourmaline)
3. Color Change Garnet
4. Smokey Quartz
5. Oregon Sunstone

I have one of each kind so far except for the color change garnet. Now if anyone is willing to give me $600 dollars so that I can rectify that, it would be great! I''d also like a few grand for a really nice sized Tsavorite.

 

[Kim Bruun]

Date: 1/4/2010 11:28:48 PM
Author: redfaerythinker
1. Tsavorite Garnet
2. Cuprian Tourmaline (or any blue-green Tourmaline)
3. Color Change Garnet
4. Smokey Quartz
5. Oregon Sunstone

That is rather a diverse list! On the one hand, you list glamourous, flashy stones such as tsavorite and cuprian tourmaline, and then... smokey quartz?

 

[brandy_z28]

1. orange/pink sapphires
1. mahenge spinels
1. opals
1. cuprian tourmalines
1. orange diamonds

I can''t pic which one should be #1 so I listed 5 but they''re all #1''s.

 

[Christiana]

My top five:

1. Amethysts
2. Yellow diamonds
3. Emeralds
4. Rubies
5. Blue topaz

 

[LaurenThePartier]

My top five;

1. True orange spessartite garnets. I think my Spess is my favourite coloured stone.
2. Tsavorite garnets.
3. Pale coloured spinels.
4. Sapphires, especially pads, but also lovely cornflower blue sapphires.
5. Diamonds.

 

[Pandora II]

If you could only own 5 gemstones what would they be and why?

Okay, if I was to be marooned for the rest of my life on a desert island (without a gem mine) and only had five lovelies to oggle....

1) demantoid garnet
2) tsavorite garnet
3) mogok ruby - but more orange undertones than purple please.
4) kashmir sapphire
5) sphene

All of the above in at least 3cts and world-class in terms of quality.

If I was to find another stone in the sand I would be torn between a paraiba tourmaline, a mahenge spinel or a Colombian emerald...

 

[Harriet]

Date: 1/3/2010 4:37:15 PM
Author: LovingDiamonds
1. Mystic Topaz

2. Flamingo Topaz

3. Mercury Mist Topaz

4. Fusion Myst Topaz

5. Neptune Garden Topaz

I need to go and lie down now, I''m not feeling well

Can someone educate me? I only know of the first.

 

[redfaerythinker]

Date: 1/5/2010 10:41:06 AM
Author: Kim Bruun

Date: 1/4/2010 11:28:48 PM

Author: redfaerythinker

1. Tsavorite Garnet

2. Cuprian Tourmaline (or any blue-green Tourmaline)

3. Color Change Garnet

4. Smokey Quartz

5. Oregon Sunstone

That is rather a diverse list! On the one hand, you list glamourous, flashy stones such as tsavorite and cuprian tourmaline, and then... smokey quartz?

Yeah... I love brown and deep smokey quartz just makes me swoon a bit.

 

[Harriet]

1. Tsavorites (surprise).
2. Anything with such strong saturation that it looks neon (mandarin garnets, Mahenge spinels, Paraibas0.

That''s it!

 

[Liane]

0. Near-colorless diamond (yeah yeah, I know, bad CS''er. Sorry! But it''s true)
1. Deep green emerald with blue undertone
2. Pigeon-blood red spinel // ruby (haven''t seen a superfine ruby in person outside a museum so I dunno which one I''d go with; the spinel I have seen and liked)
3. Black star sapphire
4. Classic blue sapphire (Ceylon, Kashmir, whatever you want to call it)
5. Blue-white moonstone (if the diamond at #0 doesn''t count)

I still need to get #2 and 4 to complete my collection. So... check back in 30 years.

 

[Lady_Disdain]

Date: 1/17/2010 3:35:55 PM
Author: Pandora II
If you could only own 5 gemstones what would they be and why?

Okay, if I was to be marooned for the rest of my life on a desert island (without a gem mine) and only had five lovelies to oggle....

1) demantoid garnet
2) tsavorite garnet
3) mogok ruby - but more orange undertones than purple please.
4) kashmir sapphire
5) sphene

All of the above in at least 3cts and world-class in terms of quality.

If I was to find another stone in the sand I would be torn between a paraiba tourmaline, a mahenge spinel or a Colombian emerald...

I take it you like green?