This blue gemstone is very bright in color and ranges in clarity from translucent to opaque.
Blue green jewelry stones.
However the blue stone is quite soft with hardness pegged at 2 5 to 3 5 in the mohs scale making chrysocolla rather unsuitable for jewelry.
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Still greenish blue and violetish blue gems are quite attractive.
This is due to the inclusion of vanadium in the stone.
The most popular color.
The most consistently blue green gemstones are amazonite turquoise chrysocolla and apatite.
There are 84 250 blue green stone for sale on etsy and they cost 19 19 on average.
Blue sapphires with slight violet hues are still top color.
The stone can change color based on the light it is viewed under morphing from blue green to deep purple.
For blue gemstones common secondary hues are green and violet.
Lets take a look at other blue gemstone.
The most common blue green stone material is metal.
The most known blue green forms of gemstones are paraiba tourmaline apatite and fluorite.
The violet blue stones that are most commonly known are tanzanite and iolite.
Other stones like fluorite jasper and agate come in many colors and some individual stones are blue green.
However those are not your only options.
In general a more pure blue hue is desirable and when a stone strays further from blue it s less valuable.
Blue garnets rank 6 5 to 7 on the mohs scale.