Citrine, Tourmaline And Amethyst: The New Diamond Of The Masses

By Author: Joselito Jorge
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The ever increasing price of emeralds and diamonds has forced more and more jewel lovers to find alternative stones. History indicates that diamonds in SI1 clarity and F G joias colors have shown steady increase in their prices over last 30 years.

Another trend of the last 6 years is that costumers prefer colored gems, over transparent diamonds. Demand for emeralds and rubies is increasing and so it's the price. Market Navigators shown a high jump of 60 to 80 percent in the price of emeralds since 2002.

Slowly, but steadily alternative gems, such as the amethyst, the citrine and the tourmaline are gaining a huge share of the stone market nowadays. Tourmaline aneis: the gemstone of the rainbow is not just a beautiful stone, but a very reliable investment. Experienced market analytics predicted a price rise of the amethyst and the tourmaline in the coming six months.

Be careful with the tourmaline - it comes in different flavours: bicolor and multicolor, and the price for the different stones can vary a lot. A much more stable investment would be the Amethyst.

The most valued amethyst is that one with ...
... dark purple color and the stones with red-violet brincos and blue-violet color. You should take care when handling this stone - it has the ability to lose its color when exposed too long to direct sun light, you better keep it in a dark place. Quality of the stone makes it a perfect choice for looking for gems. Also, low price factor is one of the current driving forces of the amethyst market share increase.

Citrine: yet another variety of quartz esmeralda, this time in yellow is one of the three gemstones that are going to beat the market share of the diamond and the emerald. Be careful again, when buying gemstones. If you want, for example, to buy the high price topaz you can be easily fooled to buy citrine, since they can have both almost the same color.

Ametrine is yet another and very interesting market gainer: it's a mixture of amethyst and citrine and it's made by heating the amethyst until it turns to citrine and than converting back the result to amethyst.

We will see much market changes till 2010, since many of the most valuable gemstones are continuing to rise their prices and slow, but steady much more cheaper gems are gaining their share in the market today.