June Birthstones

[kristin]

Pearl

Pearl is one of the excepted birthstones for June. I gave it its own thread, earlier.


http://buyingadiamond.com/forums/showthread.php?t=352

[kristin]

Moonstone-

Moonstone is the most popular variety of the feldspar group. Moonstone has enjoyed surges of popularity over the centuries. The qualities the most highly favored moonstones should display are a colorless, semitransparent to nearly transparent appearance, without visible inclusions, with a vivid blue sheen. Moonstone falls between 6 and 6.5 on mohs hardness scale, making it a good stone for carving.

[kristin]

Alexandrite-

Alexandrite is the rare color changing variety of chrysoberyl. Its dual colors are a vivid green in daylight and fluorescent light, and an intense raspberry red in incandescent light. This color combination prompted the nickname “emerald by day, ruby by night.” This gem was first discovered in the Ural Mountains in Russia. The stone was named after Czar Alexander II.