The hardest of all natural minerals it is the most intensively mined and carefully graded of all gems minerals. Diamond varies from colorless to yellows and browns, to green, blue, pink and a very rare red. The diamond is said to possess a high psychic energy and can magnetize into its radiant fields thoughts and actions. Symbolically diamonds have been associated with love, and innocence and security of love. Flawless emeralds are exceedingly rare.
Inclusions can provide the key to the source of an emerald.
Emeralds should be checked by a Gemologist. The light energy of an emerald can aid in strengthening memory, enhancing speech, and can act as a natural tranquilizer when worried or mind is troubled. A pearl is an organic gem, a mass of nacre secreted by various mollusks, particularly the oyster. Most pearls are cultured by man while the natural are very rare. Pearls appear in white, blue, cream, rose, exotic grays and blacks.