The Abicana store
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The Abicana store
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Mail: aquila_grande@yahoo.no
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Jewelry, watches
Welcome to this online store where you can find quality jewelry, watches and fashion for an affordable prize. Pleace click on the banners to learn more or buy. Further down on this page there is some information about the corundum, beryl and quarts groups of gemstones, including the stones rubys, saphires, emeralds and opals.
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Body jewelry
- Jewelry for the ears, lips, eyebrows, navel, nostrils and any piercing points. Also piersing aftercare, temporary tatto, apparel, neclaces, pendants and more.
Arizonan indian jewery
- Traditional Arizona indian jewelry and jewelry inspired by tradional Arizona indian style. There are especially many pieces where silver is combined with turquoise, opal, onyx, malachite or tiger eye. The silver frames are formed after traditional indian animal symboles and motives.
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Examples of brands and types present are: Charles-Hubert Paris Watches, Croton Watches, Bulova Watches, Euro Geneve Gold and silver Watches, Black Hills Gold Watches, Freeze Diamond Watches, Masonic Watches, MLB Watches, NFL Football Watches, Gold Watch Bands, Pocket Watches.
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Fashion and apparel of the latest trends
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Some other items
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Examples of make-up brands: Bare Escentials, Dermablend, City Cosmetics, Exuviance.
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Useful information
Here are some information about gemstones in the quarts group and corundum group. For more information articles about jewelry - please click here
The quarts group of gemstones
Minerals in the quarts group are perhaps the most abundant minerals on earth. The great mountains on earth are partly made up of quarts. These minerals have a simple chemical composition. They consist chemically of silicone and oxygen atoms bounded together in a crystal or glass matrix.
Crystallic quarts minerals are fairly hard, grade 7, grade 10 is the hardest possible. The group consist of the following special kinds of minerals used in jewelry or as material in other finer utensils.
The quartz group contains many beautiful
gemstones. Gemstones from this mineral group are often cheap because of their
abundance. Still they are as beautiful as the most expensive stones.
Their beuty is also of a unique kind that cannot be found in other stones. They
deserve a place in any collection of jewels and gems. Because of the affordable
prize, one can also make bigger objects from these stones, not only small adorns.
Here are the most important gemstones in this group presented.
QUARTZ GEMSTONES WITH LARGE
CRYSTALS
Quartz can be found as large crystals. Depending on the color the stones have
several names.
Rock crystal: This is big and clear crystal of quarts. They are fine to form with facets like a diamond. A cut rock crystal does not look like a diamond, but has a beauty of its own caracterized by a special kind of transparent clearity.
Citrine: Citrine is a big and transparent crystalsof quarts with red, yellowish or brown colour substances. These substances often contain iron ions.
Smoky quartz crystals. These are crystals of quartz with a brown color. The crystals are clear and calm looking rock crystals, but have a light to dark brown color as if they are filled with smoke, but a clear looking smoke. Smoke quartz perhaps gives the most beutiful brown color of all gemstones.
Rose quarts: A specimen of rose quarts consist of small crystals firmly lumped together and containing red coloured substances. Rose quarts is not transparent, but only translucent and has a corny structure.
Amethyst: This is is big and transparent crystal of quarts with violet substances blended into the crystal matrix.
Aquamarine: This is big and transparent quarts crystal of clear blue or bluish-green colour.
QUART GEMSTONES WITH SMALL
CRYSTALS
Quartz is most often found as stones with a lot of small, but visible crystals.
The crystals give the rock a corny and opaque, but somewhat glittering
appearance.. If the quertz is pure, it can be formed to beautiful gemstones of
various colors.Because these stones are fairly great, they can also be used to
make bigger utensils and decorative objects.
Ordinary white quarts: This is the most abundent form of quarts, and is most often simply called quarts. It consists of colourless small crystals lumped firmly togeather forming big white, corny, transcucent specimens. Ordinary quarts may look like marble, and is often mistaken for marble.
Other variants of quarts
stones: Small-corned quarts stones are
found in the same colors as the greater crystals, and are often given the same
names, like smoke quarts or rose quarts.
CALCEDONE GEMSTONES
Calcedone is quarts stones with microscopic crystals. Calcedone is opaque , but
with a shiny surface much like the surface of a perl. Calcedone is usually
forned inside cavities in rocks, where the stone has been crystallized from
watery solutions. A cacedone stone is most often spherical, and is often hollow.
The inner parts of the stone is often composed of greater rock crystals of
various colors.
The most usual variant of calcedone has a blue-grey pearly color. This varint is
usually only called calcedone. Here are some other variants of calcedone
described:
Agate: An agate specimen consists of microscopic crystals, and is therefore not transparent, but is to some extend translucent. The specimen has concentric colour bands deposited one at the outside of the other. Agates have been formed in cavities in rocks, and the bands of the agate has been gradually cystalized onto the walls of the cavity from water in the cavy. The colour bands can be brown, red, blue, grey, orange and any blending of these colours.
Onyx: An onyx specimen also consist of microscopic crystals and is only to some extend translucent. An onyx has coloured layers stacked on at the top of each other. An onyx specimen have been formed by crystallisation from water solutions in rock cavities, like the agate. The colour layers are often green, white, brown and red, with green often being the dominant colour. Sometimes layers are totall black, and cuts from such layers are often used as gemstones in male rings.
Carneol: Also a carneol specimen consist of microscopic crystals. Carneol is deep red and nearly not translucent at all. Also this type of quarts has been gradually crystallized from water solutions.
Moss agat: This is calcedone that differ in colore from place to place, but the different colors are not placed in layers outside each other. Green is often a predominant color.
Tiger eye: Tis is onyx where the layers have brown, yellowish brown or yellow colors with a godlen tune. It shows a beautiful calm golden pley in these colors.
NATURAL GLASSES
When silicium dioxide solidifies without forming
regular crystals, natural glasses are formed.
Opale: Opal is a natural glass, having been solidified in cavities inside rocks out of watery solutions.Opal is most often found as thin layers upon other stone types. Opal has included a lot of fine water drops inside. The basic color of an opal can be many, but often it is milky white. t can also be red, black or any other color. The small droplets in the stone give it a wonderful play of all types of colors in addition to the basic color. Because of the beauty and the rarity of the stone ,opal is one of the most prescious gemstones.
Obsidian: Obsidian is a natural glass formed in volcanos. Obsidian can have only one color, or many colors in the same piece. They can be clear or opaque. Colors often found in obsidian are milky-white, dark green, or black.
The corundum group of gemstones
Corund that do not have gemstone quality is widely used as abrasives and polishing tools.
Corundum often contain disolved elements giving colour to the crystal. Corundum without distinct inclusions and without uneven colour is used as gemstones. Corundum crystals of a distinct colour are more valuable than clear crystals. Corundum gemstones most often originate from the far east, for example Thailand, Burma and Sri Lanka. There are the following types of crundum gemstones:
Ruby (rubine, rubin ):
Red corundum is called ruby, and is considered the most valuable corundum gemstone. The colour may vary from deep red, often found in rubys from Thailand and Burma to lighter red often found in rubys from Sri lanka. Rubys red as blood from a pidgeon are often considered the most valuable. Big rubys of good colour quality and without macroscopic inclusions are very rare, and these may get nearly the same prize as diamonds of the same size. The red colour of a ruby originates from disolved chrome.Blue Saphire:
Corund of blue colour is called saphire. Blue saphire is mostly called only "saphire" The blue colour originates from small amounts of iron and titaniumSaphire of other colours:
Green, yellow, clear or orange corund of gemstone quality is also called saphire.
The beryl group of gemstones
The hardness of the crystals are of the grade 7.5 - 8.0.
Beryl is usually found in granitic pegamitic rocks. The crystals of beryl are six-sided or hexagonal columns.
Beryl often contain disolved elements giving colour to the crystal. Beryl without distinct inclusions and without uneven colour are used as gemstones. Beryl not of gemstone quality is most often called only beryl. There are the following types of beryl gemstones differing in their colour:
Emerald:
This is deep green beryl. Larger specimens without easily visible inclutions of foreign materials are rare and expensive. The colour is produced by cromic oxide dissolved in the crystal substance. Vanadium and iron may also effect the colouring shade.Aquamarine:
Aquamarine means sea water. The colour is skyblue, sea blue or greenish blue. The colour is due to traces of iron in the crystal framework.Morganite:
This variant has a pink color. It is an extreemely rare and expensive stone.Bixbite:
This is red beryl. Like morganites, specimens are rare and expensive.Golden beryl:
This variant is golden yellow.Goshenite:
This is coluorless beryl. It is found at the place Goshen in massechusets. Even though the variant is rare, the value is moderate due to lack of optical refractive brilliance.
Some more information about rubys
Ruby is a red gemstone that varies from a light pink to a blood red, a
variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide). The color is caused mainly by
chromium. Its name comes from ruber, Latin for red. Other varieties of
gem-quality corundum are called sapphires. It is considered one of the four
precious stones, together with the sapphire, the emerald and the diamond.
Rubies are mined in Africa, Asia, Australia, Greenland, Madagascar and North
Carolina. They are most often found in Myanmar (Burma), Sri Lanka, Kenya,
Madagascar, and Cambodia, but they have also been found in the U.S. states of
Montana, North Carolina and South Carolina. The Mogok Valley in Upper Myanmar
has produced some of the finest rubies but, in recent years, very few good
rubies have been found there. The unique color in Myanmar (Burmese) rubies is
described as "pigeon’s blood". They are known in the trade as “Mogok” rubies. In
central Myanmar the area of Mong Hsu also produces rubies. The latest ruby
deposit to be found in Myanmar is situated in Nam Ya. In 2002 rubies were found
in the Waseges River area of Kenya. Sometimes spinels are found along with
rubies in the same rocks and are mistaken for rubies. However, fine red spinels
may approach the average ruby in value.
Rubies have a hardness of 9.0 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness. Among the
natural gems only diamond is harder (Mohs 10.0 by definition).
All natural rubies have imperfections in them, including color impurities and
inclusions of rutile needles known as "silk". Gemologists use these needle
inclusions found in natural rubies to distinguish them from synthetics,
stimulants, or substitutes. Usually the rough stone is heated before cutting.
Almost all rubies today are treated in some form (of which heat treatment is the
most common practice), and rubies which are completely untreated and still of
excellent quality command a large premium. In general we can list the following
types of improvements: color alteration, improving transparency by dissolving
rutile inclusions, healing of fractures (cracks) or even completely filling them.
See Treatments below.
Prices of rubies are primarily determined by color (the brightest and best "red"
called Pigeon Blood Red, command a huge premium over other Rubies of similar
quality). After Color follows clarity: similar to Diamonds, a clear stone will
command a premium, but a Ruby without any needle-like rutile inclusions will
indicate the stone has been treated one way or another. Cut and Carat (size)
also determine the price approximately like clarity does
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A rouby crystal |
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Some more information about opals
The mineraloid opal is amorphous SiO2·nH2O, hydrated silicon dioxide, the water
content sometimes being as high as 20% but is usually between three and ten
percent. Opal ranges from clear through white, gray, red, yellow, green, shore,
blue, magenta, brown, and black. Of these hues, red and black are the most rare
and dear, whereas white and green are the most common; these are a function of
growth size into the red and infrared wavelengths—see precious opal. Common opal
is truly amorphous, but precious opal does have a structural element. The word
opal comes from the Latin opalus, by Greek òpalliòs, by Sanskrit upálá[s] for "stone",
originally a millstone with upárá[s] for slab.[2] (see Upal). Opals are also
Australia's national gemstone.
Opal is a mineraloid gel which is deposited at relatively low temperature and
may occur in the fissures of almost any kind of rock, being most commonly found
with limonite, sandstone, rhyolite, and basalt.
Opal is one of the mineraloids that can form or replace fossils. The resulting
fossils, though not of any extra scientific interest, appeal to collectors.
Precious opal shows a variable interplay of internal colors and does have an
internal structure. At the micro scale precious opal is composed of silica
spheres some 150 to 300 nm in diameter in a hexagonal or cubic closed-packed
lattice. These ordered silica spheres produce the internal colors by causing the
interference and diffraction of light passing through the microstructure of opal
(Klein and Hurlbut, 1985, p. 444). It is the regularity of the sizes of the
spheres, and of the packing of these spheres that determines the quality of
precious opal. Where the distance between the regularly packed planes of spheres
is approximately half the wavelength of a component of visible light, the light
of that wavelength may be subject to diffraction from the grating created by the
stacked planes. The spacing between the planes and the orientation of planes
with respect to the incident light determines the colors observed. The process
can be described by Bragg's Law of diffraction. Visible light of diffracted
wavelengths cannot pass through large thicknesses of the opal. This is the basis
of the optical band gap in a photonic crystal, of which opal is the best known
natural example.
Precious opal consists of spheres of silica of fairly regular size, packed into
close-packed planes which are stacked together with characteristic dimensions of
several hundred nm.In addition, microfractures may be filled with secondary
silica and form thin lamellae inside the opal during solidification. The term
opalescence is commonly and erroneously used to describe this unique and
beautiful phenomenon, which is correctly termed play of color. Contrarily,
opalescence is correctly applied to the milky, turbid appearance of common or
potch opal. Potch does not show a play of color.
The veins of opal displaying the play of color are often quite thin, and this
has given rise to unusual methods of preparing the stone as a gem. An opal
doublet is a thin layer of colorful material, backed by a black mineral, such as
ironstone, basalt or obsidian. The darker backing emphasizes the play of color,
and results in a more attractive display than a lighter potch. Given the texture
of opals, they can be quite difficult to polish to a reasonable lustre. The
triplet cut backs the colored material with a dark backing, and then has a cap
of clear quartz (rock crystal) on top, which takes a high polish, and acts as a
protective layer for the comparatively delicate opal.
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An opal armband |
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