Unknown Facts About Gemstones
Peter Wilson Cleveland
Gemstones Facts According to many qualified gemologists including Peter Wilson Cleveland, there are many facts about gemstones that most people don’t even know. So, let’s explore a few unknown facts about gemstones with the expert gemologist.
The discovery of gemstones is too old than you’d think
According to experts including Peter Wilson Cleveland,
it
is
around 70,000 years old when skilfully carved bracelet of greenhued Siberia.
chlorite
discovered
in
The different beliefs of our ancestors about gemstones
If you consider the thought of the ancient Greeks, the amber was solidified sunlight. In fact, in ancient China, the thought was that amber is the earthly form of a tiger’s soul.
Some gemstones really were once alive
Opal forms in corners and holes from the amount of material left behind by silicarich water. In some cases, this process
happens
within
putrefying material such as wood and bones.
Few gemstones have special properties Most gemologists including Peter Wilson Cleveland, love the stone Alexandrite that contains the property of changing the color.
Some gemstones are hard to find The rarest form of gemstone of all is painite, which is a deep brownish red gemstone available particularly only in Myanmar (Burma).