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Blue Amber Jewellery and Pendants set in 925 Silver. Natural Blue Amber Silver Set Jewellery. Rare amber from the Dominican Republic The Rarest Amber in the World available as rough collectors speciments, as polished peices and as rare one off peices of Blue Amber Jewellery.
www.silver-gems.com amd www.blue-amber.co.uk The following peice is authored by Alec Cordey an expert on Blue Amber. Is Blue Amber among the world's rarest gems? By Alec Corday You bet it is, despite the fact that its price does not quite reflect that fact.  Most prices for rare gems are basically adjusted according to what the seller wants to have and the buyer is willing to pay. And that depends a lot on the value the general public opinion puts on said gem. The yearly production of gem-quality diamonds is at a whopping 130 million carats. That's more than 20 metric tons. A lot more. But as De Beers' Nicky Oppenheimer said: ''I don't want diamonds to be discounted. I abhor it. What is tantalizing is that at the luxury end - the famous blue box of Tiffany's - there are brands getting the margins and markups enjoyed in the luxury goods business as a whole. We want to see stores pushing the preciousness of diamonds rather than treating them as a commodity you can discount.'' Or this one: ''We realised that R&D was going to make the difference to this business. Diamond can be engineered in many ways to suit different applications. You can control characteristics like shape, crystal strength and thermal resistance that's why it's called an engineer's best friend,'' said Hultner, Diamond Research Laboratory (DRL), South Africa. See how 'rare' diamonds are? Rare, my foot. And Blue Amber? Although there are no official numbers, but in comparison, high-grade Blue Amber has probably a yearly output of approximately 50 to 100 kilos, while the low-grade does not exceed 250 kilos. Now, that IS rare. Just how is Blue Amber graded? There are three factors in setting prices and both fluctuate radically: availability, color and translucence or even transparence. Inclusions Blue Amber Availability is probably the most controlling one. Since Blue Amber is only found in just one small region of the world, many outside factors influence the amount surfacing, the least of which is not rain. And nobody likes to work in a flooded mine. Also, over the past few weeks finds have been scarce. The mines have not yet run out, but the strong possibility is there. Color and translucence are the more complicated ones. The more inclusions, the stronger the color. The more translucence, the weaker the color. We have divided Blue Amber into different variations, and still each one can vary within its group. reprinted courtesy of Alec Cordey Author. |
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