13 Rarest Gemstones and Minerals Ever Seen
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- Here are the 13 most rare and valuable gemstones and minerals ever seen in the world like the blye Benitoite and red diamonds!
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8. Jeremejevite
This mineral was discovered way back in 1883 by a French mineralogist named Augustin Alexis Damour, who named it after the Russian scientist Pavel Vladimirovich Eremeev. The crystal was found on Mt. Soktui in Siberia, Russia. Since then, it has been described as being found in the Eifel District of Germany and in the Pamir Mountains in Namibia. This rare aluminum borate mineral is comprised of variable hydroxide and fluoride ions.
7. Poudretteite
This mineral was first found during the mid-1960’s in the Poudrette quarry of Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. However, it wasn’t until 1987 that the poudretteite was fully recognized as a new mineral. Even then, this mineral wasn't described in depth until 2003. As stated by several different sources, it’s believed that only a relative few will ever come into contact with this mineral and let alone ever even hear it mentioned.
6. Grandidierite
This is considered to be an extremely rare mineral and gem that was first seen in 1902 on the Island of Madagascar. It was named in honor after the French explorer Alfred Grandidier who once studied the island’s natural history. Grandidierite comes in a bluish-green color and is located almost entirely in Madagascar, although, there was a clean faceted sample that was found in Sri Lanka. Grandidierite is also pleochroic, which means it's able to absorb different wavelengths of light differently and that results in different colors, such is the same ability with the gems tanzanite and alexandrite.
5. Painite
This gemstone was first discovered back in the 1950’s in Myanmar by a British mineralogist named Arthur C. D. Pain. For the next several decades only two fragments of the hexagonal mineral were known to exist on earth. By the time the year 2005 rolled around, there were still less than 25 discovered pieces of painite and The Guinness Book of World Records had declared it the world's rarest gemstone mineral. However, that was 11 years ago and since then the origin of the original stones has been found, along with two other major locations that have led to the discovery of thousands of small samples of painite fragments. Even so, they’re still considered one of the world’s rarest minerals.
4. Red Beryl
Also known as bixbite, "red emerald", or "scarlet emerald", red beryl was first reported as far back as 1904. Even though its chemical compound is closely similar to that of aquamarines and emeralds, it’s actually considered to be rarer than both of them. What gives the mineral its red color palette is thanks to the presence of ManganeseⅢ+ ions. It can be found in parts of New Mexico and Utah where it’s actually proven to be quite difficult to mine. Because of this, prices for red beryl are known to reach high levels and have even gone on to be around 10,000 per karat for stones.
3. Ammolite
This rare gemstone can be found mainly in the eastern region of the Rocky Mountains of North America. Ammolite is an opal-like gemstone that is solely made up of the fossilized shells of extinct animals known as ammonites. This makes ammolite one of the few biogenic gemstones that exist, along with pearls and amber. Ammolites weren’t officially recognized as gemstones until 1981 when they were given official status by the World Jewellery Confederation.
That’s also the same year that commercial mining for ammolite began.
2. Tanzanite
It’s been said that tanzanite is 1,000 times rarer than a diamond, which might as well be the case considering the fact that it can be found almost entirely near the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro. This is where the perfect conditions lie in order to form the mineral. Like grandidierite, tanzanite is able to produce striking shifts in color based on the crystal’s orientation and the certain lighting conditions. Caltech's geology division states this is because the color variations are caused by the existence of vanadium ions.
1. Red Diamonds
Did you know that diamonds come in a variety of colors? In fact, diamonds can range from being yellow, brown, colorless, blue, green, black, pink, orange, and red. That’s also the same order of how rare each diamond is classified as with yellow being the least and red being the most. Not only that but diamonds are also the hardest natural substances that form here on earth. Just like the colorless diamond, the red diamond is made purely out of carbon, however, what gives the diamond its red color is actually a deformation of their atomic structure that’s known as a “plastic deformation”. The Moussaieff Red is the largest red diamond in the world among the little known other red diamonds that have been discovered.
black opal
made of : pearl and amethyst
alexandrite
made of: pearl , amethyst and garnet
I love su
Maximum GamingX we are the Crystal gems
Black opal
made of: Hydrous silicon dioxide. The colour flashes are caused by silicon spheres of various sizes that refract different wavelengths of light depending on size.
Alexandrite = colour change variety of chrysoberyl
made of: Beryllium aluminate
lol, what a strange show
Communism Is Death your are rude
Sans The Skeleton we r twins ._.
90% of comments are Steven Universe fans
8% of comments are stories about gems
2% of comments are actually about the video
DragonshadeDraws I'm a S.U fan :P it's kind of obvious
DragonshadeDraws I'm apart of the 90% steven universe fans
same
Peridot me to ps clod
DragonshadeDraws
1% of how the comment section
Villagers: 5 dirt take it or leave it
Okay SOOOOO
13: Black Opal
12: Jadeite
11: Alexandrite
10: Benitoite
09: Musgravite
08: Jeremjevite
07: Poudretteite
06: Grandidierite
05: Painite
04: Red Beryl
03: Ammolite
02: Tanzanite
01: Red Diamonds
Dude has #12 Jadeite selling for a record $9.3 million. I looked it up l in disbelief and sure enough... It sold for a record $9.3 million.
14 Lipsticoid😁
Not In orders these r all rarest
The Jadeite necklace did not sell for 9.3 billion dollars. The most expensive Jadeite ever sold came in at around $29m.
I saw a million dollar cabochon at GJX a few years back. WOW
Houseki no Kuni gems:
*hold my sword-*
YES
FUCKING YES.
I see all these Steven Universe comments and I'm like, bruh, ya'll ain't special, we have them too, and they're a lot prettier than yours fml.
@@Belladonna.xok
YESSSSS
Finally- a HNK fan
diamonds arent rare at all. it is only MARKETING that makes diamonds valuable.
While accessible diamonds aren't actually that rare, inaccessible diamonds are actually very common. The vast majority of all diamonds are buried at around 100 miles below the ground, below the earth's crust, some diamonds can be found in between somewhere as it is being squeezed upwards, while the rest has nearly reached the earths surface. Anyway, why would diamonds be rare? Its just compressed carbon dioxide, carbon being one of the most common chemical elements on our planet.
rob robert
Fun fact: if you put peanut butter under extreme pressure you can create a diamond
@@Little_Miss_Carrex animal jam?
Also all the colors can be reproduced in synthetic diamonds which is a growing business undercutting the shady greedy diamond cartels mostly centered in israel.
Diamonds became valuable because DeBeers said they were valuable... and they've been saying that for 130 years now.
I found a red rock outside, and I thought I was special.
We are European Scientists we will murder you for Gold, Silver, Diamond aka Love, and anything we value. We invoke science to devalue your continent, country, island, religion, and people group. We Europeans are superior according to Charles Darwin, his advocates, and Social Darwinism. Social Darwinism another Pseudoscience like many other put foward without no public apology, or public redress.
@@felipea1844 oop
The amount of anger you emit is radioactive : D
The jadeite necklace was $9.3 million, not billion. Just use some logic.
thank god! I am surprised, so few have noticed this.
Came to say this. Plus it's carat, not karat
and the pronounciation of beryl is wrong.
Was thinking thats a lot of money for rocks
I didn’t even find the 9.3 million one, there is only a very unreliable mention on pinrerest. It is true that jade is a frenzy in China though
I found a smokey quartz in my backyard.
I found Rose Quartz near train tracks
I found your loved ones in my basement
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I found pearl in a salt shaker.
Lilac Rose I get it.
Alexandrite is my favorite :> Cause of Houseki no Kuni XD
keiimyen I have a Tanzenite ring 😀
A hnk fan!
keiimyen My fav too
steven universe fusion anyone?
samesies. Alexandrite is dope as
so basically if you find a new gemstone name it after something or someone with ite afterwards
I have a gem stone's that a few haft heard of it's called Sinhalite unknown pretty much until the 50s except for one cut in the 15th century and owened by sum jewler who sold sum of the stones he had to the Crown of Europe
That's same stone was wat Was identified as a "new"mineral in the 50s Sinhalite comes from Sri Lanka old name Ceylon as Ceylon sapphire s
Pooeep
Peeoop*
Is anybody else wanting to go find some of the gems or is that just me?
Well I know what I'm doing for spring break yeah!
Mystic Blue yes
Mystic Blue also me, mostly bc of steven universe
"I'm Going On An Adventure"
aye were my Steven Universe fans at?
Tahlia Gonzalez right here man
Tahlia Gonzalez here
I'm here! :3
Came here from a su video
Tahlia Gonzalez here :3 am a SU fan :3
MY DIAMOND
YOUR DIAMOND
PINK DIAMOND!!!!
Timber The Wolf pink lasagna
Wonder if I can create gems to fight other gems.. (Possible?)
I get it
@@undeadgamer5847 tell me please, I don't get it.
It's steven univerese
(For le SU fans)
There is a theory that Pink Diamond was supposed to be Red Diamond, but came out kinda defective for the intended color, as it would be harder to get Red Diamond as they are rarer than Pink Diamond
Prof. Aizawa I've got red diamond and pink diamond
@@nothinggrand3805 no
Karen Furlow no for what?
Oooooh could thar also relate to her size like why she's so small as compared to the other diamonds?
at least your Red Diamond isn't on the moon...
Red Diamond confirmed
THE THEORYS
Omg yes I love Steven Universe sooooo much!
tekken boi if that actually happens i'm going to find Rebecca Sugar and tell her thank you
#LoveStevenUniverse4Life
tekken Pink Diamond fusion White Diamond = 1# gem of video XD
Tan-zany-a, Mye-un-mar, Siri Lanka, Nameebia... a litany of beastly pronunciations!
Nobody:
Not even a single soul:
Alexandrite: *You too should spend some time apart.*
All minerals are amazing creations of the Mother Nature! Personally, I like Tanzanite, Alexandrite and Uvarovite (you did not show last one, but it one of the rarest green gem stone quality minerals, the one of 9.9ct in US Natural History Museum considers a national treasure). Anyway, Thank you for the nice video!
this episode of Steven Universe is so good
Ella Grace I know, right?
Omg red diamond
Ella Grace lol Ikr
Ella Grace 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Ella Grace nerd
I was looking forward to seeing myself in this video
Peridot
XD
Yellow Diamond wasn't here cause you called her a Clod.
Adrian Guerra Try again. Yet another misconception regarding diamonds. Yellow diamonds occur naturally when enough nitrogen replaces carbon atoms, brown, pink, red and violet diamonds occur from plastic deformation of the crystal structure and appear in colour zoned bands, green diamonds occur naturally when in the presence of radiation deep in the earth's mantle, blue diamonds occur from the presence of boron replacing some carbon atoms, white and black diamonds occur because of large amounts of inclusions - though of different types - that affects light's path through the stone, and orange diamonds occur naturally though what colours them isn't entirely known yet. Colourless diamonds -what you called white, are the most common type used in commercial jewellery.
LanceIsWeird Wrong field of study, but sure. 😂😂
poor perisot
lol i was hoping to see a peridot or a garnet
Blue Tazanite and Blue Benoitite are my favorites ..All Blues .
very informative!
Not true most of this video’s information is wrong
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@@justsomerandomguy8210 u don't know
red diamond theory confirmed in steven universe
I had an alexandrite in my class rign from high school, the colour only changes due to lighting, not the angle of view. The only circumstances where the angle of view would have any effect is if a distinctly different light source was hitting it from a different angle, and the movement caused an intereaction with the eyes of the viewer, thus the change is due to the other light, not the viewing angle.
I Have never seen a class ring with a natural gem. My father had a class ring and it was supposed to have a citrine in it but turns out it was only glass, and citrine is cheap but they still faked it. So i doubt they would put a real alexandrite in a class ring.
And that's the difference between knowing and having an opinion.
GlassDeviant
Gary Bacon
There's a difference between a Ferrari and a Mustang, too. Both beautiful, but I'll take the Ferrari any day, if I can afford it. And if I can't, I'll keep my Subaru rather than switch to a crappy Ford product.
Land of the Lustrous Steven Universe Crossover looks tight
Tanzanite is my favorite! My mom has been collecting tanzanite jewelry for years. Since I was a teen I can remember many times that she has given tanzanite pieces to the girls in our family as Christmas gifts. We sometimes get together and compare our pieces with her collection. A few years back she told us how hard it is going to become to get tanzanite in the future because the US has lost it's ability to purchase tanzanite. This news was not something any one of us wanted to hear.
I know half of these gem names because of Steven Universe
Same lol I wouldn't have known any of them with out the show
Same! Instantly knew Black Opal.
Tyrone Townsend lol
Some here
same here steven universe is awesome
Black opal = homeworld amaphist and a homeworld pearl
Black Pearl + Homeworld Amethyst= BLACK OPAL
+Razing Flame yes that would be cool
Josh Littlemore *amethyst
ᎷY FᎪᏙᎾᎡᏆᎢᎬ ᏔᎪᏚ ᎢᎻᎬ ᏴᏞᎪᏟK ᎾᏢᎪᏞ ᏴᎬᏟᎪᏌᏚᎬ ᏆᎢ ᏆᏚ ᎷY ᏴᏆᎡᎢᎻᏚᎢᎾNᎬ
Doglover04 mine too 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thanos coming for you
LOL
hahhaha lol
Hahaha
Eìon O'hInneirghe *cough cough* /woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooshhh
@Eìon O'hInneirghe r/woooooooooosshh
Tanzanite is my favorite after a diamond. I love the purple blue color of the stone. The deeper the color the better.
Or you can sell some and make some money or some product
Tanzanite is found in Tanzania.
I really like the black opal... it looks so pretty!
Lunar Aurora I have some ☺️
Weebookey
your a master
○_○
Weebookey
can i have on
Lunar Aurora •0• •0• •0• •0•
where do you ear rings made out of them ? like real ones
2:24 whats the use of feeling blue?
Le chicken 10der aha! another Steven universe fan!
Ayy
STEVEN UNIVERSE!!!!!! AYEEEEEEEEEEEE!
HELLO FELLOW STEVEN UNIVERSE FANS!!! :D
you are me. so me. steven universe fan
does every one here realize that almost all of the gems ends with the word “ite?”
Duh
Opal- ite...
Jade-ite, imma head out
Diamondite
Edit: hey thats actually pretty catchy
yeah many minerals are like that
Know most about some of these thanks to houseki no kuni
ZeroFate Infinity
Same!!!!
finally someone
I’m honestly tired of su
Coming from a su fan from the start
ZeroFate Infinity YESS!
*insert antarcticite joke*
*starts crying*
・Mel0n-Squared・ yOu cAn’T hiDe fRoM mE
Your voice alone is able to create the super-rare "butchering-everything-ever's-pronunciation-ite"
yesssss
My favorite gem was always tanzanite but I never knew it was that rare. Well now I like iolite more but I like both gems equally. And who else likes Steven Universe. Plus this Thursday is gem harvest yay.
Not me for Stephen universe because it keeps on popping up while I'm searching for gemstones.
90% Steven universe
70%houseki no kuni
60% fightinh about houseki no kuni and steven universe
30%about how beautiful the gemstone is in the pictures
10%/100%- telling that these video is interesting
Edit: so phos is ammolite now since the gem got swallowed by the snail :000
only the legs
Tanzanite!!! I’ve got a collection of unset stones, as well as some jewelry. It’s gorgeous in the sunlight, blueberry blue, with flashes of purple & turquoise blue.
I had a decent sized red diamond in the semi rough state that was stolen, I still have my medium thick paper back novel sized peice of Jadite. A late friend who was in mining said the Jadite was from Africa and the red diamond from China. He was at near every mine in the world.
Jade Repaye-Finnerty 😊
Jade Repaye-Finnerty
Jade Repaye-Finnerty
Yes?
Jade Repaye-Finnerty which place you have found the precious, name the place Jade
Alexandrite, in its natural state, is hard to find in nature, but there are common lab cultures of the same gemstone. It is my birthstone and I currently wear 3 pieces of Alexandrite daily. Two are of the same grade and the other is a different grade, so the colors sometimes vary between stones. It is always pretty to look at them when the sun goes down since their color changes from a purple to a deep aqua-emerald green.
Chibi Denizen Ahhh! It’s my birthstone as well. I only have a lab created 3ct pendent. Although have top quality tanzanite 5ct & 3ct That is deep blue with red flashes that I love too!
My birthstone too. I saw a gorgeous alexandrite in a jewelry store. I had to see one in person to truly appreciate it. Maybe one day I'll have one.
Moonstone and pearl are your birthstone too
That blue tanzanite, black emerald, and red diamond are the most beautiful to my eyes
And the alexandririte
I've tanzanite blue violet and I am in love with my stone
Alexandeite is a fusion between garnet, amethyst and pearl.
Denzel Sugayan mine is alexandrite and pealr
Denzel Sugayan Stop
Denzel Sugayan I understand you love SU, but please, don't bring it here.
Denzel Sugayan plz fuqing STAHP
You CLOD!
You can just hear the SU fans jizzing in the comments.
Pretty much.
This comment made me blush, I-
forgetting the HNK Fans?
I have always loved emeralds - however My personal favourite is natural cabochon Tanzanite - which I am actually wearing as I watch this!
Snyderite is more rare than any of these!-) Black Opal Snyderite is so much more beautiful. Uranium Opal Snyderite is Amazing. All Snyderite comes from one place in Yavapai County AZ.
Sus
Alexandrite is my fav fusion in Steven universe
me to
Yessss same
ChadGamer Cruz yeah its too bad ass, i love alexandrite :)
ChadGamer Cruz the one that has deafeted malachite
ChadGamer Cruz mine is alexandrite
Alexandrite is my birthstone, and Russian alexandrites' are the most beautiful!
Same
I vill not eat ze breadsticks! Only ze vodka! (sorry for the notification you got)
Anita Schopfer my birthstone is Sapphire
I have a tanzanite crystal ring. I love crystals. Thanks for the video! ❤️
Red Diamonds: **exsits**
Minecraft Players voting for new ores: *I n v e s t*
*Sees peridot in thumb nail*
Me: apparently more than YOU, YOU CLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
i thought of her theme! "yes here,here everybody!
CLOD!!! :>
Are Clods the SU version of Muggles?
AriannaXOXO it’s an insult- for characters that are gemstones, calling each other a hunk of dirt is a huge insult!
HMM!!!!!!! >:
I want them to fuse together
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Ephraim Marquez aaayyhh😁
aw shiet
steven universe camio
Then let's call it "Stone".
something tells me the clues to these amassing pieces come from all around the world show that precious things last for a long time.
Gemstones are awesome
Any land of the lustrous(houseki no kuni) fan here?
Yea
Phosphophyllite,Bort,Diamond,Lunarians
Yup I'm a fan
Padparadscha Dead Meeeeee
Oh I'm a fan alright...
YOUR NAME. OH GOD. NO. WHY!??!
lol like half of everyone watching is a steven universe fan and for the other half their just like WHHAAAAAAAA
I'm one of the Steven universe fans watching this :)
Pinkpony AJ Me too, I actually came from a steven universe video.
Cheri Germain Same
Wow Steven has a lot of rare gem friends
@Trin Hawk And three could also be great ideas for OC or even fan fusion names
Though I’m just watching this out of general curiously
im watching it for both reasons :P
Kurt Winkelmann Me too
Houseki no Kuni as well.
a LOT of these are also in Houseki no Kuni, Steven universe isn't special ya'll.
If the diamonds were more powerful the rarer they are...
Pink Diamond: White Dirtwad
Blue Diamond: Yellow Clod
White Diamond: What's the use of feeling(,) Blue?
Yellow Diamond: I want ONE! I want my own ARMY! I want my own PLANET! I deserve it!
i just loved the Crystals!
The fact that he mispronounced so many different words ruined it.
People aren't perfect princess
@@rowenchaos no, but if you're putting out info for the sake of knowledge on a science channel, you might want to do some research. also, why are you so defensive about legitimate criticism? was it you who messed up all the pronunciations?
Tanzaynia
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed, made me want to scream!
WE ARE THE CRYSTAL GEMS
Mega Sans WELL ALWAYS SAVE THE DAY
We will always spread cancer.
+Orange Kid Omg XD
+Ben Paul will always save the day
+Ben Paul oops well always find a way
Nobody:
Not even a single soul:
Not even the demon under my bed:
Opal: *S t a y L o w*
Black opal is my favorite. The rainbow colored fire is hypnotic. I can just stare at it for hours.
Mine too. And see our fire opal
I really like the black opal and tanzanite
the rareone must be the valuable.
I have some black Opel I found years ago but my grandparents own a mine in lightening ridge so they have heaps of Opel it's cool stuff
Just be careful a lot of people make fake opal.
BTW thats impossable
I would love to visit "Siri Lanka" and "Mayanmar".
It is spelled this way = Myanmar
Sri lanka*
Hard to take the information seriously when the pronunciation of elementary words is off...
Ricardo Alcantara what about you?
Clonetrone what do you mean?
I did not think of owning the third rarest mineral in the world! I'm happy!
I would have to place red diamonds at the top of the list, but black opals are incredibly satisfying to gaze at with their intense fire-play...
I wish people would check how to pronounce words with which they are unfamiliar, such as Sri Lanka [not Siri], beryl and a few others. It ruins the presentation.
OMG I HAVE A BLACK OPAL!
dijcastle How??? or it's your Birthstone
woah! That's so cool!
dijcastle how much did it cost??
sorry to stop the dream but this is note so rare...its a cool stone to have but this video is not good to know real value and what is the realy rarest gems.
My birthstone is opal
Tanzanite - always, I
I used to own a pair of red diamond earrings but one fell in a crack in the floor
Oh no!! Keep looking, my mom lost an earring down the drain, took the drain apart, gave up, then got the earring out of the drain somehow several years later!
diamonds can crack
It's painful to listen to you butcher the pronunciation of so many locations.
He butchered almost all the names of the gems too, real 'merican.
Gnozzy X I was going to say that. I was crawling in my skin when he was saying beryl.
Siri Launka
And Beryl.
It's painful to see people complain about something as trivial as pronunciation.
9.3 BILLION DOLLARS JESUS SHIT ME SIDEWAYS
9.3 billion Hong Kong dollars...hehe
Used to go Benitoite hunting as a kid. I grew up in San Benito County....never realized jadeite was that rare until just now lol. Not much into gems, it was just the thing to do. We'd grab our backlights, hop on our ATVs and explore the mines...*would not recommend anyone doing that without land owners permission because they shoot first and ask questions later in those parts* It was tons of fun and pretty exciting.
Steven Universe fans would definitely watch this video.
Yes, yes we did
Ofcourse ,we did.
I'm from houseki no kuni...
*_[ofcourse]_*
Ruby [Doc] HOW ARE YOU EVERYWHERE
I'm only here for the Steven Universe fans.
Legit all of these comments are about Steven universe..
Dear god Save us all. your username is very fitting to your comment
I Have No Care for Your Opinion ikr everything is about Stevens universe
Blue Diamond should be called Benitoite
Hello clod
My how things have changed in a year. Almost every comment I can see is about the narrator mispronouncing stuff
I deadass picked up a piece of ammolite and put it back down .-. But I remember here it is so hopefully it’s still there :)
Number 2 tanzanite that is a royal colour, I'm drawn to its structure. a my second favourite would be black diamonds. Along with some labradorite Oridium Eridium and Purpurite Mixed with onyx would be quite the frequency
The fluorescent diamonds he refer to and I believe number 10 are caused by nitrogen ionized molecular structure.
Kidney stone?
ಠ_ಠ
I'm bout to find a stone called imastoned first discovered in the early hippistatious era this type of stone is not rare and can be found just about everywhere and its a pretty cool stone - n da.
Kidney stone is the one you don't want. Ever !
Trust me.... It's like chemo. 😵
You gotta sacrifice greatly to acquire one of these bad boys
@@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131 you know what that’s like as well!? Oh god
D-do you mean, SRI Lanka?
I really enjoyed this video. It's earned you another subbie! My fave is black opal. I WISH I owned one!
Came here for houseki and steven
what's hilarious about the comment section mostly of us are Steven.U fans😁
1:34 is inaccurate. It did not sell for BILLIONS of dollars.
Hypatia4242 where did they get this information? There were several mistakes and mispronounced stones and countries.
Yeah, that's not credible. Probably it was 9.3 million.
It was 9.4 million.
(JNS©…NY, Nov. 19, 1997) On November 6, in Hong Kong, Christie's highlighted its Exceptional Jadeite Jewellery auction with the sale of an important, single-strand jadeite bead necklace. According to a release, the piece, cut from a rough stone originally weighing over 22 pounds, is comprised of "27 flawless impeccably matched jadeite beads measuring from 15.09 to 15.8 mm and joined by an old-cut diamond clasp of 11 carats. It is distinguished by its proportions, high translucency and spectacularly intense and vivid green colour." The necklace sold to a private collector for $9.4 million, more than twice the original estimate. It represents the highest price ever paid for an item sold at auction in Asia.
This was to be my comment also. I see now another one set a record. 27.6 million for necklace worn by Woolworth heiress
It was sold for 9.3 million not billion. Imagine who could afford a $9.3 billion dollar necklace. It would have to be the most valuable thing on earth.... Who would wear it?
Alexandrite, Opal, Steven Universe Fusions!
Dont forget Land Of The Lustrous!
we are the crystal gems...
Thank you
swagmaster 321...we always save the day!and if you tink we can't! We always find a way!And that why the people of this world... Believe in:...Garnet,Amethyst and pearl!and Steven!
swagmaster 321 we'll always save the day!!!
Barbara Sofia Cabeza Taladrada noooo!!!! you said that before me
Steven Universe Fan Gamer Girl OMG I FOUND U AGAIN!😂I WAS WATCHING MALACHITE STEVEN UNIVERSE FUSION ROOM ART FROM CARTOON UNIVERSE AND I FOUND THIS AND YOU
$9.3 BILLION for a jadeite necklace, eh? Total BS! Care to provide a reliable reference for that claim?
It would also be nice if the person narrating this vid learned to correctly pronounce more of what he is talking about.
It's actually $9.39 million. He must have mixed up million and billion.
Here's the source. www.nytimes.com/1997/11/07/style/939-million-for-jade-necklace.html
glassmakerx i did not buy that either😕
m.facebook.com/JadeOrg/photos/a.653503881502493.1073741827.653500314836183/653527384833476/?type=3
+lissa leggs i had no idea one of my Birthstones is a the 11th rarest stone. (alexandrite) btw I have also have pearl and moonstone as my Birthstones
glassmakerx he actullly did a good job
I cannot say that any of these would be chosen as my favorite as i am taken entirely by all rare and precious natural creations !!!
Jadeite necklace was sold for 9.3 MILLION, not billion....huge difference
Tanzanite and evrything that's blue ..those are my favorites ..
"Tan-zania" sounds like a mental disorder. I take it you've never heard that word out loud before.
Edit: Left this comment too soon, nearly missed "nameebea" - I assume a type of single celled organism.
Edit: The pronunciations in this video... "red berrill"...
Edit: Really? You can say Tanzanite, but not Tanzania?...
😂 you're right
I know ~ this fool did NO research into this. Well, certainly none as far as actually knowing how to pronounce common words and place names is concerned. It was a cringe-fest.
Massangler1856 More like Tan-Zania a mispronouncement Of the State Of Tasmania, Australia.
Tanzania is my country founded at africa
Most yanks pronounce their lowercase letters as upper case letters, backwards European outcasts.
I had never heard the word "beryl" pronounced that way. Interesting. My favorites are benitoite and the ammolite.
Think of the element "Beryllium," maybe that's why he pronounced it like that.
My cat knocked my chunk of rose quartz off of its display; it broke in half.
What about a Steven
The Green Prince it's the most rare gem. there's only one.
The Green Prince steven universe referenced
The Green Prince yisssssss lol
Bethany Motsumoto hai friend.
The rose quartz gem is very common. There you go
Nice video. My favorite among those you mentioned is Tanzanite. I have a couple of them, myself. Diamonds in general are not as rare as one may think, but the four qualities of color, karat, cut and clarity are what makes them more or less valuable as gemstones.
Tanzanite was my favourite that deep blue is amazing
Mine too
They are all so beautiful. I would love to go to a museum to see all of these, but I doubt it will ever happen.