neil cohen, gemologist appraiser, connecticut

 

 

Amber (yellow/brown)


Andalusite (brown/green/red/orange)


Apatite (blue to blue/green, yellow to yellow green)


Aquamarine (blue, blue/green)


Bixbite (pink to strawberry)


Emerald (green)


Helidore (yellow, yellow/green)


Goshenite (colorless)


Morganite (pale pink to pink)


Chrome Diopside


Chrysoberyl (yellow/green to yellow/gold) - Alexsanderite (color change red/purple to green)


Danburite (pink to colorless)


Bytownite (gold/brown)


Labradorite (clear/blueish/flashes of color like moonstone)


Orthoclase (yellow/straw colored)


Sunstone (gold/yellow, copper shiller, red/orange/green/blue spots of color)


Fluorite (almost all colors)


Almandine (red/orange to violet tint)


Demantoid (green, Emerald green)


Grossular (green, yellow copper, brown) - Tsavorite (chrome green)


Pyrope (red, red with a brown tint)


Spessaritie (orange to brown)


Uvaroite (Emerald green)


Glass - Apache Tears, Obsidian


Idocrase - someimes called Vesuvianite found near Mount Vesuvias (nice peridot green)


Iolite - Cordierite (blue/purple with light grey/clear axis)


Moldavite - Tektite (olive to a nice green)


Opal (opal clear, yellow, orange, red/orange)


Peridot (olive to apple green)


Amethyst (light blue/purple to deep purple/blue with magenta flashes)


Ametrine (blue/purple yellow/gold)


Citrine (yellow/gold to red/orange, red brown)


Clear Quartz (clear, colorless)


Rose Quartz (pink)


Smokey Quartz (grey, grey/gold/peach)


Treated Quartz (green/yellow)


Color Change (all colors)


Padparadschah (pink/orange)


Ruby (red)


Sapphies (all colors)


Scapolite (yellow, clear, purple/lilac)


Sphalerite (green, brown, yellow, red, orange and colorless)


Sphene (rown, yellow, green, brownish-red)


Spinel (Red, purple, blue, lavender, green, pink, yellow (unusual), orange/peach)


Hiddenite (Emerald green, yellow-green, yellow)


Kunzite (Pink, violet, cornflower-blue)


Cubic Zirconia (all colors, color change)


Gadolinium Gallium Garnet (GGG) (all colors)


Yttrium Aluminum Garnet (YAG) (all colors)


Zincite (all colors)


Rhodochrosite (red/pink)


Tanzanite - (purple/blue) - Zoisite


Topaz (blue, clear, peach to pink)


Achroite (colorless)


Dravite (gold/yellow to orange)


Elbiate (watermelon, red/green rind)


Indicolite (blue)


Rubellite (red/purple/pink)


Schorl (opaque black)


Siberite (purple)


Verdelite (green)


Fancy Zircons (unusual colors, mauve, pink, red)


Hyacinth (butterscotch, yellow, brown to orange)


Starlite (blue)

 

 

 

 

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