Welcome to Deep Discount Colored Gemstones!
Here you will find a wide variety of loose colored gemstones from all over the world at deep discounted prices. All of the colored gemstones we feature are top quality, cut for maximum beauty and brilliance, and offered to you at wholesale prices.
Whether you are looking for a beautiful Alexandrite Gemstones, Amethyst Gemstones, Aquamarine Gemstones, Tanzanite Gemstones, Tourmaline Gemstones, or Topaz Gemstones , we encourage you to check our website.
Colored Gemstone Pricing Guidelines
Color - Color plays the most important role in pricing colored gemstones, but its impact on price varies depending upon quality, size, variety, and the species of the gemstone. For example,Amethyst and Rock Crystals are varieties of the species Quartz.
Color has more influence of the price of blue sapphire, than it would on blue topaz or yellow sapphire. In most cases, the stronger and more saturated the color, the higher its value. A stronger deeper Amethyst can cost many time more that a lighter variety called Rose de France, all other factors being equal.
- The more murky, brownish, grayish, or blackish a gemstone, the lower its price, unless it's intended to be black or brown.
- In some cases, market demand by both seller and buyer preferences impact gemstone prices more than that of strength of color.
- The more rare a color, the more value it may have. Red is considered to be the rarest color of opal, so it's the most highly valued. It is the rarity of the color, not just the color itself that most often determines price.
- In most cases, the lower the quality of a stone, the less importance color will have on value. Color has little influence on the price of low-grade translucent to opaque emeralds, but it has a significant effect on top-grade emeralds.
Clarity - Clarity is the degree to which a stone is free from flaws - inclusions and blemishes. In most cases, the fewer, smaller, and less noticeable the flaws, the more valuable the gemstone, especially for higher priced gemstones, such as sapphires, rubies, and emeralds. Unfortunately, there is no universally accepted grading system for colored gems as there are for diamonds. There is however, a greater acceptance for flaws in colored gems than in diamonds, and value is typically based on visual appearance of colored gemstones rather than on grades of clarity. In some cases, inclusions and blemishes may be a sign that a stone is natural and not treated nor lab-grown.
Transparency - Transparency is the degree to which a gemstone is clear, hazy, translucent, or opaque. Translucent gemstones resemble frosted glass, where as opaque gemstones do not allow light to pass through. Generally, the higher the transparency, the more valuable the gemstone. Rubies and sapphires with microscopic particles which disperse color is an exception to the rule. For black opal, opaque stones ten to be more highly valued than those with a higher transparency.