![]() Los Chupaderos – Dominican Republic, Baoruco.This find is unusual – before this kyanite was considered to be of rather low interest to the gem industry but crystals from Nepal can be compared to the best sapphires! The only finds of high-quality kyanite gems in the world. Daha kyanite mines and some other mines in Nepal, Karnali Pradesh.Here is mined zircon that obtains beautiful blue color only after heat treatment. Mines of the best blue zircon… which is not blue. Bor Keo mines and Ban Gaew – Cambodia, Ratanakiri. ![]() Later similar tourmalines were found in Nigeria and Mozambique. The first find of the gorgeous Paraiba tourmaline – a seemingly glowing, electric blue tourmaline which was discovered in 1987. This is one of the rarest gemstones in the world. But… from time to time here are found light blue crystals of jeremejevite which are large enough to be used as gems. Well, this can not be called a mine or even a proper find. Larimar, Dominican Republic / Vassil, Wikimedia Commons / public domain Are there any other unique finds of blue gemstones? Yes: definitely. Wondermondo has to admit: this list has been rounded to a nice, traditional number of ten. Are these the only finds of unusual blue gemstones? Few even know that it exists – but there are places in the world where such amber can be found. There are some more extremely valuable blue stones: turquoise (high-quality stone is extremely rare), light blue-green jadeite, larimar, chalcedony, chrysocolla, and many others.Ī special place in this list is left for a peculiar material: blue amber. Could be that the bluest of them all is lapis lazuli – a legendary stone which has been mined for millennia in Northern Afghanistan. Such stones can be translucent but not transparent. Just a few of these stones have a deep, pure blue color but each of them has a gorgeous shade of blue.īut there is another kind of gemstone – massive stones which are not faceted. Some other blue gemstones (the traditional gemstones – faceted and transparent stones) of high value are occasional blue diamonds (there is no certain location where they can be found on a regular basis), benitoites, blue beryls (bluer varieties of aquamarine), zircons, kyanites, the near-unique paraiba tourmalines, blue sapphires, and the extremely rare blue garnets. Thus, the unexpected find of tanzanite in the late 1960ies brought a new kind of blue gemstone to the market and good marketing was essential to make it popular. While sapphire has an established value that lasts for many centuries, many other blue gemstones are recent introductions or simply, less known. Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 ![]() Only in Nepal is found kyanite of such high gem quality.
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