The actual word of iolite originates from the Ancient greek ios, meaning purple. Iolite colors are usually blue, purple or sometimes brown. The very best color of the gems is beautiful purple-blue crystal. Iolite offers various colors in one stone. Pleochroism (ability of gems to display more than one color) can be found in Iolite and is also known as three different color shades within the same stone. According to the viewing angle, the gemstone will display violet blue, yellow gray or possibly a light blue.

Iolite has harness around 7 - 7,5 in mohs scale. But the color and luster are very beautiful like a Sapphire Corundum. Because of that, This bluish purple gems is often called as "water Sapphire".  Iolite deposits are merely in India, Brazil, Madagascar, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, USA, and Canada.

Topaz is one of the most wanted gemstones in the market. The variety of topaz which is considered the most typical color is yellow topaz. The yellow colors range from brownish yellow to pure, bright yellow to an almost orange color. Many yellow topaz are developed in labs, but yellow topaz also occurs naturally and is generally relatively inexpensive compared with other topaz color. The most common colors of untreated topaz are pale yellow, brown, and gray. Violet and pink Topaz are also found. Since these colors are hardly ever vivid, topaz are often get treatment to produce and enhance more exciting color and luster.

The most popular color, undoubtedly, is blue. Blue topaz is definitely becomes the best selling jewelry stone in the world. Its combination of excellent brilliance, luster and clarity in a very attractive price allow it to posses great values. However, natural blue topaz is rarely found in nature. Most of the blue topazes are enhanced from the colorless topaz. Another expensive variety of topaz is a pink topaz.  A natural untreated pink topaz is extremely rare and very expensive. Most of  pink topazes on the market today are heat-treated yellow stones that turn pink. Today, the most important deposit of Topaz is found in Brazil.

The treatment for natural topaz is commonly irradiation. The blue topaz begins from colorless or very lightly tinted natural topaz crystals. The gems are then irradiated to change the color to blue and heated to stabilize the change. Another method is Neutron bombardment in a nuclear reactor. This method can produces the deep slightly greenish or grayish "London Blue". When neutron bombardment has been utilized, there is definitely residual radioactive that still left on the gems. Therefore, the gems must be held, for more than a year.After the gems are clean enough, no contain of radioactive, the topaz are ready to be worn as jewelery.

The light beauty green belonging to the Peridot is a perfect gemstone for those who love green color crystal. Peridot is known as a green gemstone that is certainly popular for jewelry today, as it was in the past. Many experts have found Peridot in ruins of ancient Egypt and Greece. By the Ancient Roman people, this beautiful gemstone was popularly known as the "evening emerald", because of the green color the gems resemble the deep green emeralds. The Red Sea island was an important source of Peridot in earlier times. It had been rediscovered a couple of century ago and still produces small quantities of the gemstone. The gemstones used during the time originated from a deposit on the small volcanic island in the Red Sea nearby the Egyptian coast.

Peridot is actually a gemstone group of the olivine mineral. It creates especially during the volcanic eruptions. The specific color varies from yellow green to dark lime-green. Chocolate-brown variants tend to be found, but are not very popular. Peridot deposits today can be found in several countries, such as USA, Burma, China, Mexico, and som countries in Midlle east. Burma exported significant amounts of Peridot until eventually political situation banned the distributions. The Peridot Deposits  in Pakistan and China produce considerable amounts of large Peridots.

Indonesia has one precious gemstone to show to the world. This special gems is opal. The Indonesian Opal is very beautiful, rich of color and shiny. This precious opals are mined in one region on West Java, the region called Banten. The opal miners on this place must dig the ground to make hole about 20 meters deep down just to get some small precious opal. Banten opal is actually very rare in Indonesian Gems Market. Because of that, the price is much higher than any others origin opal.

There are various color of opal can be found in Banten, Indonesia such as white clean, milky, brown, tea color, yellow, black, and even sometimes rare red opal. The opal picture in this article is Banten White Milky Opal. The play of color shows yellow, blue, green, and red. Banten black opal becomes the most favorite gems in the market. The price is usually more expensive than the milky color.

The Indonesian markets are flooded by the African Opal recently. The price for African opal is cheaper than the Indonesian origin. But some very good quality Africa opal of course still very expensive. Visually, The African opals are very easy to differentiate. Mostly, the play of color is not as rich as Indonesian Opal.

Amethyst is an inexpensive but luxury gemstone in purple-violet color. Since thousands of years, as one of the quartz family, the amethyst has become a jewel desired by royal families.The purple color of this special quartz attracts the eyes of people. The Ancient greek language word 'amethystos' necessarily mean 'not intoxicated' in interpretation, has made this purple quartz as a talisman to avoid being drunk or intoxicated.

Southern Brazil and Uruguay are the biggest supplier of amethsyt in the recent day. Another major amethyst export country is Madagascar. But, this purple color gemstone actually can be found around the world. Indonesia also has good quality amethyst deposits in Borneo Island. In Indonesia, Borneo amethyst has higher price than others origin amethysts. Russian amethyst, mainly mined in Ural regions, is famous for its unique and beautiful color.

The hardness of Amethyst ranged from 6 to 7 on a mohs scale. Reddish Purple color is more valuable gems. Some pale rough amethysts are sometimes heated to transform the color into yellow, called Citrine. Of course there are also natural Citrine, but it is quit rare.

The shiny gemstones are always attract the eyes of people all around the world. Many people consider gemstones as a precious thing. Indonesia, Srilanka, India, and many countries in Europe and America are a good market for gemstones trading. Today, people do not have to go abroad to purchase some precious gemstones, the online gemstone shops are ready to deliver their order. One of the most famous online gemstone shops in Indonesia is batumuliacrystal.com. It's reputation is already trusted by Indonesian people and some neighbor countries.     

The display photos of the gemstones are complete. The seller takes many pictures, all sides, from the top, right side, below, etc. Many people from Indonesia and neighborhood countries sometime visit the shop directly in Jogjakarta, Indonesia, to see the real one, not the pictures. But, the all the pictures on batumuliacrystal.com are unedited (only the size and shape format were edited for web display). This online shop is simply selling natural gemstone. The batumuliacrystal.com online shop gives guarantee to the buyer. If the gemstones were found unnatural or fake laboratory gems, money back guarantee.   

The characteristics of the gems are also described clearly, beginning from the name of the gems, the origin (if possible), the size, the ring, until the prices. All the prices is included the delivery cost, but only for Indonesia areas. Many beautiful gemstones all around the world are offered with a reasonable prices in batumuliacrystal.com. The buyers may order through email at galihadventure@gmail.com, Phone number +628170741953, or visit the store in Jogjakarta, you may have the complete address at the web. 

Aquamarine is regarded as a beautiful gemstone. The blue color of aquamarine is really a godlike, as it would be the color belonging to the sky. Blue aquamarine is likewise the color of sea water. The name of aquamarine itself comes from the Latin words "aqua" means water and "mare" means sea. It does indeed! the blue color appears to have seized the lucid blue from the oceans. For thousands of years, the Blue Aquamarine has been widely known as the sailors' lucky stone.

This beautiful blue gemstone is almost as well-known as the others famous gemstone such as emerald, sapphire and ruby . Actually aquamarine is in connection with the emerald, because both are belonging to the beryl minerals. Aquamarine has good hardness about 7.5 to 8 on the Mohs scale. Also it has a wonderful shine lustre. That hardness causes it to become very tough and covers it towards a large extent from scratches.

The aquamarine deposits are spreaded all around the world, but only on some area really have good quality of rough aquamarines. In the Uncle's Sam Country, aquamarines can be obtained from the summit of Mt. Antero, central Colorado. The Gemstone Minings of Brazil, Kenya, Colombia, Madagascar,Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia also supply aquamarines. The greatest rough aquamarine, weighed over 110 kg, that ever unearthed was found in Marambaia, Brazil, in 1910.

Emerald is considered the most well-known and precious green colored gemstone. It’s stunning green color, blended thoroughly along with the rareness, make Emerald one of several most highly-priced gemstones. Deep green is regarded as desired color for Emerald. This green gems is the variety of Beryl family. Good quality emeralds are generally faceted into gems cuts for jewelry. It will become one of the most popular gemstones jewelry. Emerald is certainly vulnerable to pressure and knocking. The famous emerald cut is designed specifically for this gem to lessen the pressure during cutting process.

Colombia is the most well-known country that produces the best quality Emerald. Even though some country such as Zambia has been a recent significant producer also. Since the Cleopatra era, Emerald was mined in Egypt, known as Cleopatra's mine. Some important Emerald deposits are in Brazil, China, Russia, U.S. (North Carolina), South Africa, and also Mozambique.

Emerald defects are very common. The emerald is generally getting treatment to hide the crack with oil or artificial lubricants. The oiling treatment to Emerald is a common treatment and it’s already accepted by the gemstone collectors all around the world. By heating the rough Emeralds inside the place containing oil, the crack of the gems will be filled by the materials through the heat. The oil used for this treatment is cedar oil. Today, more effective fracture-filling techniques have been practiced, including the irradiation treatment.

This blue gemstone is the most wanted gems in the world. Many collectors prefers to collect this blue gems,  well known Sapphire, as their precious collections. The sapphire is belonged to gems family of corundum, red corundum called  ruby and then a pinkish orange variety called padparadscha. Despite the fact that blue is the most well-known color for sapphire, this kind of corundum can even be colorless, and are also present in many colors including yellow, green, milky white, gray and black. Is it already accepted by many gemologists that all corundum minerals except red are called as Sapphire.

The price of natural sapphires may differ determined by their color, clarity, size, cut, and general quality, combined with the geographic origin. Well known sapphire deposits tend to be found in Thailand, Ceylon Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Eastern Australia, Africa, also in some area of North America, but mostly are found in Montana. Sapphire and rubies in many cases are found together within the same area.

Sapphire corundum in many cases shows asterism effect, usually six rays star. This asterism phenomena is coming from the small rutile inclusion that present inside the gems. The star effect brought on by the dense inclusions of tiny fibers of rutile, known as "silk inclusion or rutile inclusion". But the truth is, since rutile is obviously included in star sapphire, the body of the sapphire is  very rarely transparent.

Madagascar Island stands out as the most wealthy gem island in the entire world. This dry land shows up an exciting new find of valuable Ruby. Even though not as hard as Burmese Ruby, the red corundum from this unique island is glimmer and have an outstanding red color. Over a hundred years ago only nobleman or royal family meet the expense to wear this precious red Ruby. But, today everyone may own one of the most beautiful gemstone in the world, the Madagascar Ruby. 

The Madagascar Rubies are commonly heat treated to enhance the color. Glass filling treatment is also applied for the low quality ruby. All the treatments is done before the cutting process. Although there are some treatments applied, Madagascar ruby still becomes main choose for many gemstone collectors. Some good quality Madagascar rubies are also available, but in higher prices.