Green Amethyst Silver Pendant, 925 Solid Sterling Pendant, Handmade Jewelry, Green on sale Amethyst Gemstone Silver Jewelry, Gift for Wife, FSJ-5572

Green Amethyst Silver Pendant, 925 Solid Sterling Pendant, Handmade Jewelry, Green Amethyst Gemstone Silver Jewelry, Gift for Wife, FSJ-5572


Length--41 MM

Width--20 MM

Height--16 MM

Weight --16.4 Grams

Handmade Jewelry
925 Solid Sterling Silver

Amethyst is one of the most precious and valuable stones belonging to the quartz group of minerals, with exception to rare blue-green gem silica. It is recognized as the official birthstone for the month of February. Amethyst belongs to the macrocrystalline branch of quartz and owes its violet/purple color to iron and aluminum impurities. Without such coloring agents, amethyst would simply be transparent, ordinary colorless quartz. Like other varieties of macrocrystalline quartz, amethyst has transparent to translucent clarity and a vitreous luster. Cryptocrystalline varieties of quartz almost always occur with translucent to opaque clarity.

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Peridot is named after the French word peritot, meaning gold, because the mineral can vary towards this color. Peridot is the birthstone for the month of August. It is also the stone given to celebrate the 16th year of marriage. Peridot has a very long written on sale history. Ancient papyri record the mining of these stones as early as 1500 BC. The main source of peridot in the ancient world was Topazo Island (now Zabargad or St. John's Island) in the Egyptian Red Sea. In Ancient times, peridot stones were used for carved talismans. Island habitants were forced to collect the gems for the Pharaoh's treasury. Legend says that jealous watchers who had orders to put to death any trespassers guarded the entire island. The story continues that the miners worked in the daytime as well as night, as the gems could be found after nightfall due to their radiance. The miners would mark the spot at night for retrieval the following day.
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