Gemstones in Yellow color

Hello everyone, welcome to the gemstones in color series. lets get right into the list of yellow gemstones. Warm, sunny, and delicious yellow stones increase the glamour component and add class to your jewelry, particularly diamond jewelry. Yellow gemstone jewelry was very popular in India a couple of years ago as they look fabulous in combination with pink, green or white stones and they might be back in trend again. so lets learn a little about these Gemstones in Yellow today.

Gemstones in Yellow

1. Yellow Topaz: You can find yellow Topaz stones in the color range of amber to the pink-orange of a peach and all the beautiful warm browns, golds, and oranges in between. The ancient Egyptians, Romans and Indians associated topaz with Sun god (Ra) and the planet Jupiter claiming that topaz was colored by the God’s golden glowgiving this brilliant gem the power to protect the faithful against harm. Greeks believed in obtaining strength and sometimes invisibility to danger by wearing the stone. Read the previous articles in this gemstone series to learn more about Topaz gems of other colors

2. Amber: Romanticized by homer in the odyssey, Yellow amber is a hard, translucent, yellow, orange, or brown fossil resin from evergreen trees. It has always been valued as a gemstone and also used in perfumes and medicines. Smooth, lightweight, and warm to the touch, amber was often used for rosary beads in the Middle Ages and Knights often controlled the amber trade. Baltic and Dominican amber are commonly know varieties of amber

3. Citrine: I had talked about the gorgeous Madeira Citrine here but Citrine, a variety of transparent quartz, ranges from a juicy lemon yellow to a bright orangey brown and is named after the French citron, or lemon. Sometimes people refer to citrine as topaz quartz which might look similar but differ in hardness. It is one of the three birthstones for November. Sometimes citrine and amethyst can be found together in the same crystal, which is then referred to as ametrine

4. Yellow Sapphire: One of 9 Navaratna gems, yellow sapphire or pushparagam or Pukhraj represents the positive powers of Jupiter and is know to bring prosperity to any one who wears it. Unlike the blue sapphire, the light yellow stone is considered a safe stone and can be worn by everyone.

5. Golden Beryl: A shiny member of the famous Beryl family, Golden Beryl has a warn sunny yellow color. It commonly confused with a similar stone Heliodor, (name after the Greek words for sun helios and gift doron) but golden beryl refers to pure yellow or golden yellow shades, while heliodor refers to the greenish-yellow shades

6. Chrysoberyl: Chrysoberyl (an aluminate of beryllium )is an action gem, changing and moving in response to light producing light ray effect commonly known as cats eye.. Its name is derived from Greek words chrysos and beryllos, meaning “a gold-white spar”. The three main varieties of chrysoberyl are: ordinary yellow-to-green chrysoberyl, cat’s eye or cymophane, and alexandrite ranging from honey gold to greenish color.

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