Want to know your birthstone???

Just ask! Please add month of birth. all info is from http://library.thinkquest.org/J002744/adlm-birthstones.html

November is the month

Topaz right ?

Color: From yellow to light brown to pinkish red.

Topaz is a hard and transparent gem. Topaz is a compound of aluminum, silica, and flourite. Topaz has a hardness of 8 on the Moh's Scale. Most topazes are white or blue. These are often large, including thousands of carats. This means that the only thing that makes topaz more valuable is the quality. Topaz mainly is irradiated (exposed to radiation) to improve the gem's color. Blue topaz is sometimes sold as aquamarine, and brown quartz as topaz. Topaz is much harder and more brilliant than the quartz.

Color: Red

Ruby is the rarest and in large quantities, the costliest. The best rubies come from Burma, paler ones from Sri Lanka. Rubies from Thailand are yellower. Smaller and less valuable rubies have been found in North Carolina. A big, nearly perfect ruby from Burma could be as valuable as a diamond the same size. Garnets are often sold under names like "Cape Ruby" or "Arizona Ruby". Ruby is the symbol for the fortieth wedding anniversary.

I have lots of Amethyst jewelry. :D

Color: Mostly Purple, sometimes bluish-violet


Amethyst is found in 6-sided, pointed crystals. The purple color is believed to be that way because of the iron and manganese. Jewelers use this to make rings, necklaces, or brooches.

Oddly, I really don't like mine. I wish it could have been something cooler. Diamonds are so . . . blech.

Because I'm a 'Fool.

Color: Usually transparent, sometimes blue

Diamond is the hardest naturally occuring substance. It is also almost entirely pure carbon. It will not dissolve in acid. It can be destroyed when put to intense heat. Due to its hardness, it is the most enduring gemstone. Surprisingly, about 80% of all of the diamonds are only fit to be used for industry. Most diamonds have 8 or 6 sides. Some have as many as 12 sides. A diamond must be used to cut another diamond. It can be separated by a hard blow on its cleavage. When diamonds are heated with oxygen, it will form carbon dioxide. If heated without, it will form graphite. They sometimes even glow when subjected to ultra-violet light.
There are 4 basic diamond mines: Africa, India, Russia, and South America. South Africa produces 70% of the world's diamonds. Zaire is one of the biggest diamond-producing countries.
The rock where diamonds are found is blueground. Yet, about 1 carat (200 milligrams or 0.2 grams) of diamond is all that is found in 3 short tons (2.7 metric tons) of blueground.

Color: Bluish-green, sometimes changes

The bright colored gem is highly popular in jewelry of Navajo design. The Navajo prized this because they believed it bring them closer to their gods and protected them from harm. The Aztecs wore turquoise to show their ranks.
Turquoise has a wide variety of colors. Sky-blue is the most valuable. High-quality turquoise has a permanent color. Waxy turquoise seldom keeps its color.

Color: Any, mostly white

The most valuable opal is the glowing black opals which are found in New South Wales, Australia. Opal cracks if held in dry air for long a period of time. Some scientists beleive that the many layers of silica gel make the so many different colors of opal.

Which I've always hated. It's an ugly yellowish green.

Edit: I wear the birthstones of my kids instead of my own. February (Amethyst, which I love) and October (Opal, beautiful), plus a pearl for a baby who would have been born in June.

Color: Mostly green

This gemstone is a common form of olivine. Jewelers cut high-quality stones like diamonds. They cut peridots with low quality into a round style called cabochon, or they might polish the gem with abrasives. Peridot has been known since biblical times. The earliest known source of peridot was Jazirat Zabarjad (a island in the Red Sea a.k.a. St. John's Island).

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Color: Usually White

Pearls are made out of nacre(NAY kur). When a particle comes into the oyster or nacre-forming mollusk, the mollusk or oyster covers the particle with nacre. The particle is trapped in the layers, and the particle is covered with the nacre to look like a sphere. The pearl is formed.
Pearls aren't very hard. They absorb and reflect light. This is a gem that is not formed beneath the Earth. It is formed in the ocean.

:hi: you all

Color: Green


A large and perfect emerald is almost as valuable as a small diamond. It has 6 sides. The best emeralds come from Colombia, the largest producer of emeralds. Emeralds are also found in India, Russia, Zimbabwe, and North Carolina. One of the hugest emeralds was the size of an ostrich egg. An emerald that weighs 6 pounds (2.7 kilograms) is displayed in Leningrad

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Color: Any, mostly white

The most valuable opal is the glowing black opals which are found in New South Wales, Australia. Opal cracks if held in dry air for long a period of time. Some scientists beleive that the many layers of silica gel make the so many different colors of opal.

The opal is the traditional one, I believe.