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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sirajstc" data-source="post: 12014569" data-attributes="member: 91140">Top 10 Rarest GemsGems are one of nature’s ways of saying, “look how beautiful I can  be”, and people know it, too. For thousands of years humans have been  adorning themselves with gems and jewels to stand out and wow an  audience. Be it necklaces, brooches, pendants, or bracelets, precious  and rare gems have long since become one of the favored ways to express  just how much wealth one has. Here are the ten rarest gems on earth. 10. Jeremejevite USD $2000/Carat <a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/jeremejevite-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/jeremejevite-1-tm.jpg?w=229&h=300" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> Pronounced ye-REM-ay-ev-ite, this is a colorless, sky blue or pale  yellow stone, the highest quality of which comes from Namibia. In nature  it occurs in small obelisk-shaped crystals and has in the past been  mistaken for aquamarine. It was named after Russian mineralogist Pavel  Jeremejev who discovered the mineral in 1883. As of early 2005, a clean,  2.93-carat faceted gem was selling on the Internet for $2000.00 per  carat. 9. Black Opal USD $2,355/Carat <a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/frontnew1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/frontnew1-tm.jpg?w=280&h=260" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> Australia is the classical Opal country and today is the worldwide  most important supplier of Fine Opals. Almost 95 per cent of all Opals  come from Australian mines. The remaining five per cent are mined in  Mexico, and in Brazil’s north, also in the US states of Idaho and  Nevada, but recently the stones have also been found in Ethiopia and in  the West African country of Mali. Black Opal or Opal with a dark gray  body shows the most brilliant play of colors imaginable. 8. Red Beryl Emerald USD $10,000.00/Carat <a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/red-beryl-emerald.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/red-beryl-emerald-tm.jpg?w=300&h=224" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> Red beryl is found primarily in the Thomas Range and the Wah Wah  Mountains of Utah, and has also been reportedly found in a location in  Mexico (possibly near San Luis Potosi one of the very few places beryl  is also found on rhyolite). Where it is found in Utah it occurs on  rhyolite, where it crystallized under low pressure and high temperature,  along fractures or cavities and porous areas of volcanic rhyolitic  magma. Very few cut specimens exist. 7. Musgravite USD $35,000/Carat <a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/musgravite.jpg" target="_blank"><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="" /></a> 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. 6. Grandidierite USD $50,000/.5 Carat <a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/grandidierite-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/grandidierite-1-tm.jpg?w=300&h=229" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> This is a bluish green mineral found primarily in Madagascar. The  first and so far only clean faceted specimen, from Sri Lanka, was  originally mistaken for a serendibite and subsequently purchased in May  2000 by Prof. Gübelin from Murray Burford. The gem shown above weighs  0.29 carats. Grandidierite is trichroic, transmitting blue, green and  white light. The mineral is named after French explorer and natural  historian Alfred Grandidier, who among other things unearthed bones from  the extinct half-ton elephant bird in Ambolisatra, Madagascar.                                                                                                                 5. Painite USD $50-60,000/Carat <a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/painite-faceted4.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/painite-faceted4-tm.jpg?w=300&h=199" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> This gem was once believed to be the rarest mineral on earth, is  today still considered very rare. British mineralogist 1950s first  discovered it in Myanmar. When it was confirmed as a new mineral  species, it was named after him: Arthur C.D. Pain. For many years, only  three small painite crystals were known to exist. Before 2005 there were  less than 25 known crystals found, though more material has been  unearthed recently in Myanmar. 4. Blue Garnet USD $1.5 Million/Carat <a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/bluegarnet.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/bluegarnet-tm.jpg?w=300&h=233" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> Garnets species are found in many colors including red, orange,  yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, black, pink and colorless. The  rarest of these is the blue garnet, discovered in the late 1990s in  Bekily, Madagascar. It is also found in parts of the United States,  Russia and Turkey. It changes color from blue-green in the daylight to  purple in incandescent light, as a result of the relatively high amounts  of vanadium. The most expensive, a 4.2 carat gem sold in 2003 for $6.8  Million. 3. Serendibite USD $1.8-2 Million/Carat <a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/serendibite-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/serendibite-1-tm.jpg?w=300&h=225" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> 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. 2. Red Diamonds USD $2-2.5 Million/Carat <a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/reddiamond.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/reddiamond-tm.jpg?w=210&h=300" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> Only a very few red diamonds are ever found, and few people have only  seen even one treated red diamond. The gem is described as a purplish  red, so it is not a pure red, crimson, vermilion, or scarlet.  Nevertheless for its size it is one of the most expensive diamonds ever.  The Argyle Mine in Australia produces a small number of red diamonds.  The largest and finest of these are auctioned every year or two, and  sell for millions of dollars. 1. Jadeite USD $3 + Million/Carat <a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/jadeite.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/jadeite-tm.jpg?w=218&h=300" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> Until recent years jadeite has been something of a mystery mineral,  but we now know of primary sources in Guatemala as well as several  California occurrences of white or grayish jadeite. Boulders in which a  few small freestanding crystals have been seen occur in San Benito Co.,  California, with additional finds in Clear Creek, between New Idria and  Hernandez. All Mexican jadeite is in artifacts, from unknown sources.  The record price for a single piece of jadeite jewelry was set at the  November 1997 Christie’s Hong Kong sale: Lot 1843, the “Doubly  Fortunate” necklace of 27 approximately .5 mm jadeite beads sold for  US$9.3 million</blockquote>

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