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Our guide to which stone is for which anniversary.
Anniversaries
Our guide to a stone for every month of the year.
Birthstones
A beautiful warm stone, usually varying in colour from honey-yellow to rich orange and dark brown.
Amber
A form of the mineral quartz. As such related to citrine, the yellow form of quartz, & to rock crystal, the colourless variety.
Amethyst
A common mineral with a particularly wide range of colours, including colourless (white), pink, yellow, green, blue and violet.
Apatite
A variety of beryl, found in stunning sky or sea blue.
Aquamarine
Pure beryl is colourless, but it often contains impurities which give it colour.
Beryl
The clear yellow or golden form of the mineral quartz.
Citrine
The most well-known types of corundum are sapphire and ruby.
Corundum
A member of the garnet family. Garnet is a family of related minerals.
Demantoid Garnet
The green variety of the gemstone beryl, and is a particularly beautiful stone when set in fine jewellery.
Emerald
A bright orange variety of opal. It is particularly popular in jewellery because of its dramatic colour.
Fire Opal
A family of related minerals. Each has a common crystal structure and a similar chemical composition.
Garnet
Applies to two different rocks that are made up of different silicate minerals. These are jadeite and nephrite.
Jade
A beautiful deep blue gemstone. Its exact colour varies according to the proportions of the minerals from which it is composed and according to its source.
Lapis
Like coral & jet is an organic gemstone. All jewellery that originates from a living creature, plant or other living organism is classified as organic.
Mother Of Pearl
A banded variety of chalcedony, which is a type of quartz. Its bands are typically white and black.
Onyx
A variety of quartz often called the 'paradoxical gemstone'. This is because it is particularly difficult to categorise.
Opal
Cultured pearls are classic and timeless. They can be worn casually or for special occasions.
Pearl
A bright green variety of olivine. Golden undertones & vary in depth of colour from quite pale to a dark forest green colour.
Peridot
A member of the garnet family. Garnet is a family of related minerals.
Pyrope Garnet
A crystalline rock composed of silicon dioxide. It is extremely common, being the most abundant single mineral on earth.
Quartz
A member of the garnet family. Garnet is a family of related minerals.
Rhodlite Garnet
Ruby is the usual name for transparent red corundum. Ruby is red or pink.
Ruby
A transparent corundum. The other well-known gem in the corundum family is ruby.
Sapphire
A hard and durable gemstone found in many different colours.
Spinel
A transparent blue zoisite. It is quite a 'new' stone, having been discovered in Tanzania by the Masai tribe in 1967.
Tanzanite
Best known as a Madeira or sherry-coloured stone. In the past, nearly all stones of this colour have been referred to as topaz.
Topaz
Usually thought of as and most commonly found in green, but in fact exists in more colours than any other gemstone.
Tourmaline
An opaque gem usually found in the bluey-green colours which the name now denotes.
Turquoise
A member of the garnet family. Garnet is a family of related minerals.
Tzavorite Garnet