There are five emperors and one queen in the jewelry industry: the five emperors refer to diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds and emeralds (opals), one king refers to jadeite, and the other king refers to pearls.
Australia, Zaire, Botswana, Russia and South Africa are the top five countries in terms of output.
Introduction: Diamond refers to polished diamond (the original stone of diamond). Diamond ranks first among the five precious stones and is known as the king of precious stones. Diamond is the hardest natural substance in the world, and its brittleness is also quite high, so it will still break when it is hit hard.
Ruby origin: Most natural rubies come from Asia, Africa, Oceania and America.
Introduction: Ruby refers to red corundum, which is red to pink because of its chromium content. The higher the content, the brighter the color. Blood-red rubies are most cherished by people, commonly known as "pigeon blood red". Ruby is hard, only lower than diamond. Natural rubies are very rare, so they are precious.
Sapphire origin: Kashmir, Myanmar
Brief introduction: In fact, the gem-grade corundum in nature is called sapphire except red, and other colors such as blue, light blue, green, yellow, gray and colorless. Sapphire is characterized by uneven color, and parallel hexagonal columns are arranged with flat bands and growth lines of different shades.
Emerald origin: Colombia, Brazil and Zambia
Abstract: Emerald, known as the king of emeralds, is one of the oldest gems and was used as jewelry in ancient Egypt. Trace chromium oxide makes it appear bright green. Emerald is green with a little yellow and looks blue. Emerald always gives off a soft and rich light.
Famous origin of golden green cat's eye: southwest Sri Lanka
Description: refers to the golden emerald with cat's eye effect, with up to nine eyes, which is the most precious. Followed by seven eyes, six eyes, three eyes, one eye and two eyes. Gold-green cat's eye production is scarce. After being processed into an arc-shaped gem, it can strongly reflect light and appear a light band similar to the "pupil eye" of cat's eye.
China's four famous jade, Xinjiang Hetian jade, is famous for its origin: Xinjiang Hetian jade. Due to the exhaustion of excavated resources, its collection value is extremely high.
Introduction: The first of the four famous jade in ancient times. With moist or oily as the first feature, it is hard, not easy to break, wear-resistant, pure in color, and the sound made when knocking is crisp and long, like the sound of a golden bell, which is the best place to produce white jade. Hetian jade, also known as suet jade, is a fine product.
Dushan jade, Henan: Dushan in Nanyang, Henan.
Introduction: Also known as "Nanyang Jade" or "Henan Jade". Most jade is opaque, a few are slightly transparent, and its hardness is almost equal to that of jade, so some geologists abroad call it "Nanyang Jade". Dushan jade has the best color, high transparency, fine texture and no impurity cracks. Among them, green, red and white dushan jade have higher values.
Xiuyan jade, Liaoning: Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County, Anshan City, Liaoning Province.
Introduction: One is old jade (also called yellow and white old jade), which is a precious original stone jade with simple and dignified texture and yellow and white color. The other is Xiuyan Jasper (also called Wagou Echo), which belongs to serpentine mineral. Its texture is solid and moist, delicate and round, mostly green to lake green, among which dark green, transparent and few defects are treasures.
Famous producing areas of turquoise in Hubei Province: Yunxian, Yunxi and Zhushan in Hubei Province, with large output.
Introduction: China called it a jewel in the sky in the Qing Dynasty. Turquoise has uneven texture and different shades of color, and even contains light stripes, spots and brown-black iron wires. The degree of tightness also varies greatly, with more loose pores and less dense and hard pores. After polishing, it has a soft glass luster to waxy luster.
Emerald has no origin of jadeite in China, and more than 95% of the commercial jadeite on the market comes from Myanmar. Jade is produced in Japan, Russia, Mexico, California and other places, but the quality and output are far less than those in Myanmar.
Myanmar's famous jadeite producing area: Myanmar
Introduction: Burmese jadeite, also known as Burmese jade, is mainly imported from China. The hue of Burmese jade can be roughly divided into white, red, green, black, yellow and purple. Among more than ten varieties, Laokeng jadeite is the top grade or the best among jadeites, followed by ice jadeite and water jadeite. Top ten jadeite varieties: Laokeng glass jadeite; Old pits are planted with emerald ice; Violet jade; Dragon stone species; Black ice breeds jade; Golden silk long emerald; Hibiscus grows emerald; Hong Fei; Floating jade; There are more yellow and green emeralds >>
The world's four major pearls can be divided into seawater pearls and freshwater pearls according to their water production, but freshwater pearls and seawater pearls can be divided into natural pearls and cultured pearls, and the pearls basically seen now are cultured pearls.
Origin of Tahiti Black Pearl: Salt Lake in French Polynesia, South China Sea.
Introduction: Seawater pearls. Tahiti black pearl is precious and unusual, and enjoys the reputation of pearl among pearls and queen among pearls. In different degrees of gray, there are different magic colors, and the most appreciated are peacock green, deep purple, navy blue and various shades of gray and rainbow colors.
Origin of Nanyang pearls: Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, Beihai, Guangxi.
Introduction: Seawater pearls. Hepu Pearl, produced in Beihai City, China, also belongs to Nanyang Pearl. Hepu Pearl is the queen of seawater pearls in China, with the reputation that "East Pearl is inferior to West Pearl, and West Pearl is inferior to South Pearl". Rainbow color or reflective color is preferred, but generally speaking, jade white pearl is preferred.
Dongzhu origin: Songhua River, Heilongjiang, Wusuli River, Yalu River and their basins.
Introduction: Dongzhu, Manchu is Tana. Freshwater clams in Heilongjiang can also produce pearls. This kind of wild pearl is opaque, pure white, huge and full, round and crystal clear, but its output is very small. As a rare tribute in the Qing Dynasty, only members of the royal family can wear it. Dongzhu Zhu Chao is the highest grade of all Zhu Chao materials.
Origin of Japanese pearls: Japan
Introduction: Freshwater Beads. The Japanese call it "Zhu Zhen". The so-called pearl cultivation is to cut the mantle of pearl shell into small pieces, send them to mother shell for pearl cultivation, and cultivate seedless pearls through the deposition of mother-of-pearl; Or, after sending a small piece of mantle, insert a round core made of shells into the shell to develop a nucleated pearl.
Crystal crystal, alias water mirror, aquamarine, aquamarine. Rare mineral, a kind of gem, is a timely crystal, which belongs to the timely family in mineralogy. Most of the crystals in the world come from Brazil, Uruguay, South Africa and other places, mainly Brazil. China is famous for its Donghai crystal.
Origin of Donghai Crystal: Donghai County, Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province
Description: There are white crystals, lavender crystals, brown crystals and pale yellow crystals in the East China Sea. Natural white crystals are transparent without impurities. The East China Sea is a famous "Crystal Capital" in China, and is known as the "Crystal Town". Chairman Mao's crystal coffin is also mainly refined from East China Sea crystal materials. The top ten most expensive crystals in the world: the royal topaz seal of Qingganlong; Guanyin carved crystal; Crystal flowers are three students; Six-liter m crystal bottle; In Qing dynasty, a pair of crystal phoenix birds offered their birthday; Crystal god of wealth; Crystal bliss longevity Buddha; Niu Fangxi, the royal treasure crystal carving beast of Empress Dowager Cixi; Crystal teapot; Buccellati crystal ornaments are more >>
Agate, also known as agate, Kate Ma, horse brain and so on. , is a chalcedony mineral with a layered color. Waxy luster, translucent or opaque, white, gray, brown and reddish brown are the most common, black, blue and other colors are also available, and natural agate does not have green. Often used as an ornament or ornamental.
The world-famous agate producing areas are: China, India, Brazil, Madagascar, USA, Egypt, Australia, Mexico and other countries.
The most expensive agate: blood gall agate; Tianzhu; Water bile agate; Western Zhou agate; Gobi agate; South red agate; Red agate in the Warring States period; Grape agate; More agate >>
South Red Agate Origin: Yunnan (representative), Gansu and Sichuan.
Brief introduction: It was called "Chiyu" in ancient times, which is a unique variety in China and its output is scarce. It dried up in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, so the price of the old south red agate rose sharply. The colors of South Red Agate are persimmon red, scarlet, pink, bordeaux and so on. Some southern red agates that can basically be bought now are antiques.
Amber Amber is a fossil formed by the long-term evolution of the resin of ancient Pinaceae plants buried in the stratum. Amber can be divided into Haipo and Kuangpo according to its origin, and the purity of Haipo is higher than Kuangpo. The varieties are Jin Po, Xuepo, Chongpo, Xiangpo, Shipo, Huapo, Shuipo, Mingpo, Wapo, beeswax, red rosin and so on. Among amber, blood amber is the best, followed by Jin Po, wax amber is the lowest, and the most expensive variety is amber with insect packs.
Origin of amber in Myanmar: Hu Kang River Basin, Kachin State, northern Myanmar.
Introduction: Burmese amber is one of the most famous Cretaceous amber in the world, which contains the most abundant Cretaceous biota known at present. Among the many amber varieties in Myanmar, Xuepo and Insect Po are the most famous, whose quality is recognized by everyone and their social status is very high.
Origin of Baltic amber: Poland, Lithuania and Russia.
Introduction: This is the most famous amber producing area in the world, the "hometown" of amber and the only producing area of Haipo. Baltic amber is generally yellow in color, transparent and clear, with bubbles and fog. Sicily, a small island in the south of the Italian peninsula, is another major amber producing area in Europe. Amber in this area is famous for its changeable colors, such as crimson, dark blue and foggy green, which are deeply loved by amber collectors.
Fushun Amber Origin: Fushun West Open-pit Coal Mine, Liaoning Province
Introduction: It is the only producer of gemstone amber and insect amber in China. Colors are yellow, red, white and black. Wearing and playing with amber will change these colors. Among Fushun amber, insect amber is the most famous. Fushun worm amber is of high quality, so its ornamental and collection value is not low. Fushun amber crafts are divided into three series: amber carving, amber jewelry and amber painting.
Dominican Amber Name Origin: Caribbean Grand Antilles
Introduction: In a real sense, Lanpo is the only place of origin. Lanpo has become the amber variety with the best quality, the highest value and the most sought after. Lamper is a general term. Under the light other than ultraviolet rays, there are many colors such as gold, green, blue-green, sky blue and blue-purple. Sky blue and blue purple are the unique colors of Lampard in Dominica.
Mexican amber origin: Chiapas, southeastern Mexico
Introduction: The characteristics of Mexican amber are very similar to those of Dominican Lanpo, and it is the second largest Lanpo producing area in the world. The color of Mexican amber is greener and has obvious blue-green characteristics. It takes longer to form than Baltic amber and its hardness is stronger than Baltic amber.
Famous origin of red coral: Natural red coral only grows in Taiwan Province Strait, Japanese Strait, Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Sea.
Introduction: Red coral is an organic gem, with waxy luster, pleasant color, shiny texture, crimson, lux and pink, opaque to translucent, dendritic. Red coral grows in the deep sea from 0/00 to 2000 meters away from human beings/kloc-,and ranks as one of the three organic gems alongside pearls and amber, and is also listed as one of the seven treasures in the oriental Buddhist scriptures. Natural red coral is formed by coral accumulation, which grows very slowly, is non-renewable and is limited by sea area, so red coral is extremely precious. More >>