Precious stones and attractions information
Types of precious stones
For more information, click on the name of the precious stone you are interested in.
Agate
The original name agate comes from the ancient Greek, according to findings by the river Achates in Sicily (now Italy). When finding Agate looks like an ugly lump of clay, but after polishing comes to light interesting agate texture and earthy color ...
Aquamarine
Aquamarine is named after the word Aqua or water. This gemstone is due to its color has always been linked to water ...
Amazonite
Amazonite belongs to the feldspar gemstones. Feldspars have an interesting property that creates a special lighting effects. U amazonite is a non-traditional satin sheen on the surface of the stone ...
Amethyst
Ametyst belongs to a large group of precious stones quartz to that rank relatively large number of color variations, pink as rose quartz, crystal clear or yellow citrín. Amethyst is a very popular gemstone ...
Ametrine
Ametrine is a very interesting gemstones, as it is a combination of amethyst and citrine. This stone combines Sluníčkova golden color with a mental purple, which gives Ametrin interesting dimension ...
Apatite
Apatite form hexagonal crystals, which is found in many incredible bright shades and colors. Due to its brightness, brilliance, and the price is cut into diamond shapes and committed to jewelry instead of other precious stones ...
Apophyllite
Apophyllite is very popular among collectors of minerals and it is usually one of the first minerals to start mineralogist own in your collection. In addition to other commonly available minerals such as calcite or quartz has apophyllite very exotic ...
Aragonite
Or aragonite calcium carbonate is called a relative limestone. It has exactly the same composition, but unlike limestone creates a different crystal structure ...
Aventurine
Aventurine belong to a group called crystal quartz. Most Aventurine, which can be bought, they have the color green with the sparkling effect. This effect creates a shiny stone mica flakes and specks of hematite ...
Azurite
Azurite is due to their attractive color very popular. Azurite is called dark blue azure and is caused by the presence of large amounts of copper ...
Beryl
Beryl is for the general public less known, but it is one of the most precious jewelery. Beryl is colorless, but different ingredients give it a different timbres ...
Citrine
Citrine is a type of quartz with golden brightness. Sites are in Madagascar, Brazil, Russia, France, Spain and the USA. In the Czech Republic is bearing the Liberec region and the Greater Mezirící ...
Charoite
Charoite is recently discovered mineral in mineralogy. The first mention of charoite are known only from the 40th 20th century Russia, specifically from Yakutsk in Siberia, which is characterized by a very inhospitable climate and poorly accessible terrain ...
Fluorite
Fluorite is well known and sought after for its rich variety of colors, which is endowed with. We often meet with fluorite bright green, purple, yellow or striped in these color combinations ...
Garnet
Garnet fascinated mankind since ancient times for its beautiful red color and a beautiful warm glow. Many people around the world knows precious Czech garnet, professionally Pyrop ...
Hematite
Hematite can be silvery-gray with a metallic sheen, steel dark and light or reddish brown. Just by the red-brown hue got this gemstone its name because of the Greek word haem or blood. In the Middle Ages is believed ...
Heliotrope
Heliotrope is a very unusual green stone in which hematite and other iron compounds are a dark red spots. Legend says that a drop of blood of the crucified Christ ...
Chalcedony
Many of us have hitherto thought that chalcedony is only one stone bluish, but the opposite is true. Group gemstones called chalcedony contains many interesting varieties ...
Jadeite and Nephrite
Name jade got this gem by accident actually. In Europe came during the cruise in the modern era, when it was brought conquerors of the indigenous people of South America ...
Amber
Amber or Amber is not really a stone, but it is the fossilized resin of prehistoric pine trees, which can be up to 90 million years old. Most amber is found in the ancient river deltas and coastal areas ...
Jasper
When comparisons strong as a rock, always vybavím Jasper. This gemstone is found in large masses and small valouncích. Large pieces of stone are used as wall cladding ...
Calcite
Calcite, another name Limestone is a very common mineral that is found in a large number of color variations. Colouring originally clear glass calcite cause ...
Carnelian
Carnelian can be colored in a great variety of tones of orange, yellow to burgundy, causing the presence of iron as ferric oxide. Carnelian has a Mohs hardness scale number, so it is quite hard ...
Quartz
Quartz is a large group of gemstones, which includes a commercially available crystal, rose quartz, amethyst, citrine and smoky quartz. Chemical formula of quartz is known to all, or a formula SiO2 silicon dioxide ...
Crystal
Crystal crystals were discovered in Switzerland by the ancient Greeks, who considered fossilized crystal ice. From likewise derives its name Krustallos or ice. People are fascinated by this stone ...
Crystal with inclusions
General principle that the more expensive the stone contains inclusions, the more it reduces its value. This is not true with rock crystal (quartz), which are popular precisely because these inclusions contain ...
Labradorite
Labradorite is a beautiful mineral belonging to the feldspar gemstones. Around labradorite you can easily go unnoticed if you look at it from the wrong perspective. But once you see its beautiful shine ...
Lapis Lazuli
Lapis lazuli or One Thousand and One Nights. This beautiful gemstone has all the possible colors of the night sky from a dark blue studded with golden stars over blue sky at dawn ...
Larimar
Larimar stone or Dolphin's Pearl of the Caribbean. Blue-white stone is a special variety of silicate minerals group called Pectolity. Pectolity are widespread throughout the world, Larimar is only one place in the world ...
Magnesite
Magnesite, this white-washed stone veined with gray markings, has a very pure and fine like white feather. Many would consider this beautiful stone uninteresting, lifeless and too porous for jewelry ...
Malachite
Malachite is a stone with a bright green striped agate drawings as well as drawings reminiscent of flowers or balloons. Malachite green color makes copper, which occurred at the point of deposit, which originated malachite ...
Moonstone
Moonstone got its name thanks to the mysterious play of light inside the stone that shines like the moon in the night the lake or river. This gloss is technically the mineralogy says adularescence ...
Obsidian
Or Black obsidian stone from hell is actually volcanic glass that was created by the very hot lava cooled rapidly in water on the Earth's surface. Bubbling lava cooled so quickly ...
Peridote
Peridote is actually the unofficial name for the connection of ferric mineral origin called fayalite and minerals with a high content of magnesium called forsterite. This composition provides a lively green color ...
Onyx
Onyx many know as the shiny black stone, but few of the general public knows that the more natural onyx stripes are white, brown and red, of course, on a black base ...
Opal
Opal is a gemstone that shines in all colors of the rainbow. The milk until slightly hardened dark background fire Sept. red, sky blue, Sluníčkova yellow, teal green and other colors, which you can imagine ...
Pearls
Each pearl could be regarded as the most beautiful accident of nature. The ideal pearl is perfectly round and their nacre plays a subtle color highlights ...
Prehnite
Prehnite is apple-green gemstone that is similar to jade, can sometimes be greyish or white, transparent or translucent. Prehnite forms rather masses with ledvinitým surface, rarely forms crystals ...
Rhodochrosite
Rhodochrosite is a pink mineral that your color sometimes resembles raspberries, sometimes it can be compared to lean pork ...
Ruby
Ruby is a beautiful gemstone in red color, which can have a lot of interesting shades of red with a hint of raspberry wine to the color of pigeon's blood ...
Rose quartz
Rose quartz a variety of quartz, which is the most abundant mineral in the world. Rose quartz, as the name suggests is slightly pink, transparent to translucent ...
Sapphire
Sapphire belongs to the corundum gemstone, which forms ruby next largest share. The best known is sapphire blue cornflowers, but few people know that sapphire is found in the color spectrum of the rainbow ...
Sunstone
Sun shining stone with its golden glitter belongs to the feldspar. This fine pearl in the drab background is probably caused by tiny particles of red hematite ...
Emerald
Emerald is a gemstone belonging to the group of minerals called Beryl, which are igneous origin, which means that these minerals formed by crystallization of magma or lava ...
Silver
We all know silver as a precious metal from which it is produced jewelry, coins and other investment and decorative items such as dishes, mirrors, etc. Due to this processing, the silver in the raw almost none of us come into contact with a kind of forgetting that Silver is a natural material ...
Sugilite
Sugilite known for only a few years, but in that time has gained great popularity among collectors of precious stones and even the esoteric healers ...
Topaz
Topas is a clear mineral that is colored by the environment in a variety of rainbow colors yellow, orange, brown, blue or pink. Its appearance is very close to fluorite ...
Tourmaline
Tourmaline is a large group of gemstones that includes a large number of color variations. The best known and most widely used is tourmaline schorl, whose crystals are black and opaque ...
Turquoise
Turquoise is known to all and popular gemstone in blue to blue-green color. With its unique color has been popular since the dawn of jewelry and decorative objects as well as objects of daily use ...
Tiger Eye
Gemstone tiger eye belongs to a group called Quartz gemstones. Tiger Eye is very eye-catching golden brown sheen that arises reflected rays from individual fibers within the structure of striped stone ...
Moldavite
Moldavite is a natural glass in a unique bottle-green color. This unique tektites derived only from the Czech Republic, especially in the area of South Bohemia, where moldavite first appeared near Tyn nad Vltavou ...
Smoky quartz
Smoky quartz is a variety of quartz, which has a transparent smoke color, which apparently originated natural irradiation of silicon oxide. Formation of smoky quartz is still not entirely clear, but the occurrence of smoky quartz is always in the ...