This video is about gemstone misnomers and the dangers of calling gemstones by incorrect names. Music courtesy of youtube music: Tiptoe out the back by Dan Lebowitz
Hi Paul, one jewelry pet peeve of mine is when I see jewelry resellers selling pieces as "vermeil" or "gold wash" when they are not actually plated, but tarnished. Some resellers call tarnish "attractive patina" when it is anything but. The green amethyst gets me too.
Hi Melody. Thanks for the comment. I'm not sure i'm getting your peeve correctly. Are you saying that your peeve is that people say that stabilized turquoise is not real and not good, or are you saying your pet peeve is you don't like stabilized turquoise because you don't believe it is real or good? In any event, turquoise has been mined as far back as 2100BC. There is evidence that those miners were stabilizing turquoise using bees wax way back then. Having visited multiple turquoise mines in the southwest United States, I asked every mine owner what percentage of the world's turquoise was stabilized. Most answered somewhere between 80-90%. I'm not talking about reconstituted dyed material that is cheap. That has no place in my mind, but if a seller discloses the treatments I'm okay with that affordable option for some people who would otherwise not be able to afford better turquoise. I have been educating many of my followers about stabilized turquoise-and that it is a good thing, not a bad thing. Most turquoise is very porous. I have seen turquoise snapped in half quite easily. There are still some mines (like the Royston mine in Nevada) that have some very hard turquoise that doesn't need to be stabilized. Many native American turquoise miners have soaked their turquoise in oil to "treat" their rough before polishing it. Today, stabilization is much more sophisticated. If you don't stabilize it, it will be more prone to cracking and also the color will change over time. Over the years the turquoise will absorb the oils and perspiration from your body to fill those pores in the turquoise. Long winded answer to be sure, but I hope you find it helpful.
Red Beryl or red emerald. Formally Bixbite. Was too confusing with Bixbyite. A black mineral. Tululee Garnets. JTV was calling this common orange spessartite garnet Tululee. Where its mined,the natives have no word for "orange". They called orange rocks Tululee. JTV was charging nearly triple per ct. Padparadsch tourmaline. By ancient Sanskrit this pink orange color refers only too sapphire. The pink of the lotus crossed with the orange sparkle of Bengali bay at sunrise. Very common color in tourmaline. Extremely rare in sapphires. Often treated with beryllium to create this effect. Is a term only for sapphires. Pigeons blood ruby. Has nothing to do with blood red ruby. More akin to the red orange of a pigeons eye. Unfortunately for a fist full of $'s & few $'s more, labs are now adding trade names to gem reports. You can have your ruby labeled pigeons blood ruby. Even if its technically not.
Thanks for the comment, Robert. I totally agree with you. No to red emerald! No to padpradscha tourmaline! Reminds me of people trying to say paraiba colored apatite back in the day or Paraiba "colored tourmaline from Africa. The only Paraiba tourmaline is the material from the paraiba mine in Brazil. Also love the Tululee story. Reminds me of an African garnet the locals called "Malaya". It wasn't the garnet they were looking for so they used malaya which was the local word for prostitute. Turned out to be pretty material after all. Finally, I feel your pain on the lab reports. Sign of the times. Years ago I paid $300 to the GIA lab at the Tucson gem show to evaluate a black opal in matrix product to see what the test revealed as treatments. The report came back "Black opal in matrix consistent with Australian treated with acid". I went back to them and said, "I know for a fact there was no acid treatment on this stone". They said, " Then how was it treated?. I said that was what I paid you $300 to find out. Lazy. I guess now if I offered enough money I could make them say anything!
@@pauldeasygemstones Oh no The prostitute thing, great chuckle. I needed that. I'm not a gemologist. Maybe...a well informed enthusiast. Specialize in colored stones. Unless its a rare inclusion specemin, I'm not big on diamonds. I just started rubbing opal about 8 mos ago. Was yours black opal in potch? Or matrix? Generally matrix opal is heated in delute hydrochloric then in sugar too darken the back ground mtrl & bring out colors. New sales tactic is calling it "fairy opal." I rub a lot of coober, Mintabe, & boulder. Just got some good Larimar. But its 20⁰f here. I'm not cutting slabs/ cabs till May. EDIT; Correction; matrix is treated sugar 1st, 170⁰ then sulphuric acid.
Thanks for the comment, Barbara. Lol indeed! White buffalo is a very cool and misunderstood gemstone. The definition is calcite in quartz. A lot of people erroneously describe White Buffalo Turquoise. To make matters worse, there have been examples of small bands of turquoise within white buffalo. This is something that the native Americans named "Sacred white buffalo turquoise". But those examples are very rare. If there is no visible band of turquoise, it is simply white buffalo.
I love your channel, I have been inspired. Do you have an opinion on gemstone testers? Is there one less expensive than the Presidium? and just as good or better? Hope this isn't too presumptuous of me. Thank you.
Hi UDLTUBE. That is a great question. Gem testers and diamond testers are certainly useful. Do you need to make a big purchase right now? That lall depends. One of my closest friends in the business is Tom Elliot. We have travelled extensively with him to various gem sows (like the Tucson Gems shows every January/February, to the amethyst and agate mines in Brazil to several mines in the southwest USA. He is also one of the few people on earth to get a degree from the Gemological institute of America as a graduate jeweler gemologist. They don't even offer that degree anymore. One thing he said to me I have never forgotten. Go to jewelers, rock shops and gem shows and ask lots of questions. People in the business love to share their knowledge. Also, there are a lot of other ways to test gemstones. For example, getting a jewelers loupe .is very affordable and helps you start to identify crystal structures. There are also heavy liquids which can help you identify the specific gravity of a gemstone. Let's suppose you think you have what you think is a ruby. and you put in the heavy liquids. You are expecting to see 4.0 (the specific gravity of rubies and sapphires> However, the heavy liquids show that the specific gravity is 3.80. So it isn't a ruby. turns out you have a pyrope garnet. But I have an even more compelling reason to wait to invest in a gem tester. When I was getting lessons to become a private pilot, There were certain benchmarks I needed to complete. One was called a solo cross country flight. Not literally a flight across the country. A cross country flight was flying to another airport about 100 miles or so from my home airport. Most planes have sophisticated gps systems. However, what if that GPS fails? That is why you had to complete the task without the GPS. Maps, charts, and a watch to navigate. Doing these tasks in gem identification will make you better, and then appreciate the gem tester all the more when you get one. Food for thought. Anyway, I will give me friend Tom a call and see which testers he does recommend! Cheers and thanks for watching!
Hi Wendy. Thanks for watching. As for your question about "White Amethyst'? There is no such thing. It is just people trying to attach a sexy sounding name to colorless quartz.Since amethyst is the more expensive and popular color of quartz, people think they can create excitement and get more money if t hey have t he "rare white amethyst" This is shady at best and illegal at worst. Quartz can be a lot of different colors. Amethyst is the purple variety of quartz. Citrine is the yellow variety of quartz. Rose quartz is the pink variety of quartz. Prasiolite is the green variety of quartz. If the quartz is clear, it is white quartz or colorless quartz.
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Hi Paul, one jewelry pet peeve of mine is when I see jewelry resellers selling pieces as "vermeil" or "gold wash" when they are not actually plated, but tarnished. Some resellers call tarnish "attractive patina" when it is anything but. The green amethyst gets me too.
Diamonique is a Yitrium Aluminum Garnet ,a YAG. It is a prettier form of a cubic zirconia ,as there are many.
Lithium tantalate is my favorite diamond simulant personally.
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Glad it was helpful!
@@pauldeasygemstones I want to sell gemstone can you please tell me where I can get a verified customer
@@quizer77 yeah!!! I'll take some too!
My pet peeve,that stabilized Turquoise is not good or is not real.
Hi Melody. Thanks for the comment. I'm not sure i'm getting your peeve correctly. Are you saying that your peeve is that people say that stabilized turquoise is not real and not good, or are you saying your pet peeve is you don't like stabilized turquoise because you don't believe it is real or good? In any event, turquoise has been mined as far back as 2100BC. There is evidence that those miners were stabilizing turquoise using bees wax way back then. Having visited multiple turquoise mines in the southwest United States, I asked every mine owner what percentage of the world's turquoise was stabilized. Most answered somewhere between 80-90%. I'm not talking about reconstituted dyed material that is cheap. That has no place in my mind, but if a seller discloses the treatments I'm okay with that affordable option for some people who would otherwise not be able to afford better turquoise. I have been educating many of my followers about stabilized turquoise-and that it is a good thing, not a bad thing. Most turquoise is very porous. I have seen turquoise snapped in half quite easily. There are still some mines (like the Royston mine in Nevada) that have some very hard turquoise that doesn't need to be stabilized. Many native American turquoise miners have soaked their turquoise in oil to "treat" their rough before polishing it. Today, stabilization is much more sophisticated. If you don't stabilize it, it will be more prone to cracking and also the color will change over time. Over the years the turquoise will absorb the oils and perspiration from your body to fill those pores in the turquoise. Long winded answer to be sure, but I hope you find it helpful.
Red Beryl or red emerald. Formally Bixbite. Was too confusing with Bixbyite. A black mineral. Tululee Garnets. JTV was calling this common orange spessartite garnet Tululee. Where its mined,the natives have no word for "orange". They called orange rocks Tululee. JTV was charging nearly triple per ct.
Padparadsch tourmaline. By ancient Sanskrit this pink orange color refers only too sapphire. The pink of the lotus crossed with the orange sparkle of Bengali bay at sunrise. Very common color in tourmaline. Extremely rare in sapphires. Often treated with beryllium to create this effect.
Is a term only for sapphires.
Pigeons blood ruby. Has nothing to do with blood red ruby. More akin to the red orange of a pigeons eye. Unfortunately for a fist full of $'s & few $'s more, labs are now adding trade names to gem reports. You can have your ruby labeled pigeons blood ruby. Even if its technically not.
Thanks for the comment, Robert. I totally agree with you. No to red emerald! No to padpradscha tourmaline! Reminds me of people trying to say paraiba colored apatite back in the day or Paraiba "colored tourmaline from Africa. The only Paraiba tourmaline is the material from the paraiba mine in Brazil. Also love the Tululee story. Reminds me of an African garnet the locals called "Malaya". It wasn't the garnet they were looking for so they used malaya which was the local word for prostitute. Turned out to be pretty material after all. Finally, I feel your pain on the lab reports. Sign of the times. Years ago I paid $300 to the GIA lab at the Tucson gem show to evaluate a black opal in matrix product to see what the test revealed as treatments. The report came back "Black opal in matrix consistent with Australian treated with acid". I went back to them and said, "I know for a fact there was no acid treatment on this stone". They said, " Then how was it treated?. I said that was what I paid you $300 to find out. Lazy. I guess now if I offered enough money I could make them say anything!
@@pauldeasygemstones Oh no The prostitute thing, great chuckle. I needed that. I'm not a gemologist. Maybe...a well informed enthusiast. Specialize in colored stones. Unless its a rare inclusion specemin, I'm not big on diamonds.
I just started rubbing opal about 8 mos ago. Was yours black opal in potch? Or matrix? Generally matrix opal is heated in delute hydrochloric then in sugar too darken the back ground mtrl & bring out colors. New sales tactic is calling it "fairy opal."
I rub a lot of coober, Mintabe, & boulder.
Just got some good Larimar. But its 20⁰f here. I'm not cutting slabs/ cabs till May.
EDIT; Correction; matrix is treated sugar 1st, 170⁰ then sulphuric acid.
Hi Paul, I just want to know it's Green Topaz is a natural Topaz or Synthetic gem? I do have Green Topaz
Thanks
White Buffalo tourquoise. Lol
Thanks for the comment, Barbara. Lol indeed! White buffalo is a very cool and misunderstood gemstone. The definition is calcite in quartz. A lot of people erroneously describe White Buffalo Turquoise. To make matters worse, there have been examples of small bands of turquoise within white buffalo. This is something that the native Americans named "Sacred white buffalo turquoise". But those examples are very rare. If there is no visible band of turquoise, it is simply white buffalo.
Paul, what is strawberry quartz and what is hematoid quartz?
I love your channel, I have been inspired. Do you have an opinion on gemstone testers? Is there one less expensive than the Presidium? and just as good or better? Hope this isn't too presumptuous of me. Thank you.
Hi UDLTUBE. That is a great question. Gem testers and diamond testers are certainly useful. Do you need to make a big purchase right now? That lall depends. One of my closest friends in the business is Tom Elliot. We have travelled extensively with him to various gem sows (like the Tucson Gems shows every January/February, to the amethyst and agate mines in Brazil to several mines in the southwest USA. He is also one of the few people on earth to get a degree from the Gemological institute of America as a graduate jeweler gemologist. They don't even offer that degree anymore. One thing he said to me I have never forgotten. Go to jewelers, rock shops and gem shows and ask lots of questions. People in the business love to share their knowledge. Also, there are a lot of other ways to test gemstones. For example, getting a jewelers loupe .is very affordable and helps you start to identify crystal structures. There are also heavy liquids which can help you identify the specific gravity of a gemstone. Let's suppose you think you have what you think is a ruby. and you put in the heavy liquids. You are expecting to see 4.0 (the specific gravity of rubies and sapphires> However, the heavy liquids show that the specific gravity is 3.80. So it isn't a ruby. turns out you have a pyrope garnet. But I have an even more compelling reason to wait to invest in a gem tester. When I was getting lessons to become a private pilot, There were certain benchmarks I needed to complete. One was called a solo cross country flight. Not literally a flight across the country. A cross country flight was flying to another airport about 100 miles or so from my home airport. Most planes have sophisticated gps systems. However, what if that GPS fails? That is why you had to complete the task without the GPS. Maps, charts, and a watch to navigate. Doing these tasks in gem identification will make you better, and then appreciate the gem tester all the more when you get one. Food for thought. Anyway, I will give me friend Tom a call and see which testers he does recommend! Cheers and thanks for watching!
@@pauldeasygemstones again, don't mean to be presumptuous but if you are willing, I would like to email you some photos for your impression/opinion.
What is "white amethyst"? someone was speculating it might be the part of an amethyst below the coloured points.
Hi Wendy. Thanks for watching. As for your question about "White Amethyst'? There is no such thing. It is just people trying to attach a sexy sounding name to colorless quartz.Since amethyst is the more expensive and popular color of quartz, people think they can create excitement and get more money if t hey have t he "rare white amethyst" This is shady at best and illegal at worst.
Quartz can be a lot of different colors. Amethyst is the purple variety of quartz. Citrine is the yellow variety of quartz. Rose quartz is the pink variety of quartz. Prasiolite is the green variety of quartz. If the quartz is clear, it is white quartz or colorless quartz.
Purple Turquoise is real jay king said so!
Cracking me up, Bryan!
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