Red Semi Precious Stones

Many of the red gemstones are just slightly red while others appear pure red.

Red semi precious stones.

While the red semi precious stones are often confused carnelian and sard are slightly different red gemstones. Ruby is one of the precious four gemstones and thus considered to be one of the rarest and most valuable colored stones on the market today. The traditional classification in the west which goes back to the ancient greeks begins with a distinction between precious and semi precious. Browse through our list of precious semi precious and lab created stones and learn about their value for jewelry.

Carnelians are softer red rocks ranging in color from translucent orange to brownish red. Red gemstones are highly sought after and include fire opal garnet and spinel. When you think about red gemstones that first gemstone that comes to mind is the ruby. Gemstones that possess a red hue are as follows.

The ancient greeks made a distinction between precious and semiprecious gems which is still used. Ruby is the name given to any red gem quality corundum while all other colors are traded as sapphire. In modern use the precious stones are diamond ruby sapphire and emerald with all other gemstones being semi precious. Click on any of the gemstone below to view the stones for sale by our verified sellers and learn more about it.

Similar distinctions are made in other cultures. Carnelian also spelled cornelian is a brownish red mineral commonly used as a semi precious gemstone. There is also red tourmaline commonly known as rubellite and even red topaz. Carnelian carnelian is opaque in appearance smooth and rounded and ranges in price from 6 to 60.

A gemstone is a crystalline mineral that can be cut and polished to make jewelry and other ornaments. Precious stones were hard rare and valuable. Corundum is the second hardest substance on the mohs scale second only to diamond. Carnelian coral ruby star garnet andesine labradorite fire opal spinel pyrope garnet tourmaline rhodolite garnet zircon star ruby and rubellite tourmaline.

Since then additional discoveries have produced many more specimens of this deep red gemstone but facetable material remains very rare. The only precious gemstones are diamond ruby sapphire and emerald. Similar to carnelian is sard which is generally harder and darker the difference is not rigidly defined and the two names are often used interchangeably. Sards on the other hand are a bit harder semi precious red stones that come in darker red from deep brown red to almost black.

There are 13560 red semi precious stones for sale on etsy and they cost 21 49 on average.