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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GAC" data-source="post: 12871450" data-attributes="member: 224361">Rarest & Priceless Gems in Sri LankaTAAFFIETE<img src="http://www.mostinterestingfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Gems-5.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Taaffiete was discovered by a gemologist Edward Taaffe at Sri Lanka in  1945. this rare stone available in different color from mauve, lavender  and red. Mostly, Taaffiete  is clear and displays double refraction on  the front and the backMusgravite USD $35,000/Carat<img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/musgravite-tm.jpg?w=300&h=225" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Musgravite is one of the newest and most rare gemstones in the world.  Musgravite is a silicate mineral whose main ingredients are beryllium  (Be), magnesium (Mg) and aluminum (Al). It was named ‘musgravite’ after  the area Musgrave in Australia from where the material was first found.  The musgravite was later found also in Greenland and Madagascar, but  neither of them produces gem quality material. Two pieces of faceted  gem-quality musgravite from Sri Lanka were reported first in 1993. Keep  in mind, this is the LEAST priceless of the ten.SerendibiteUSD $1.8-2 Million/Carat<img src="http://www.gemologyproject.com/wiki/images/thumb/f/fe/Fini02161.jpg/250px-Fini02161.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />This gem is a cyan colored stone that comes from Sri Lanka. It boasts an  unusually complex formula consisting of calcium, magnesium, aluminum,  silicon, boron and oxygen. So far there exist only three faceted (cut)  specimens of 0.35 carats, 0.55 carats and 0.56 carats. The first two  were discovered by rare stone specialist D. P. Gunasekera and purchased  by the late Prof. E. J. Gübelin of Switzerland. The smallest was sold  for about $14,300.00 per carat.</blockquote>

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