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I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say that peridot is their favorite gemstone. In fact, I’ve heard several people say that August has the ugliest birthstone. However, there are a few reasons to love peridot:

• It’s a semi precious gemstone, meaning you can get a very large gemstone for not a lot of money & who doesn’t love that?
• Peridot is very clear, unlike Emeralds.
• Green matches most everything.
• Unusual.

This month I’ll be posting about some peridots that will hopefully help out the reputation of the “ugly duckling of the gemstone family”. Actually, I just made that term up so it really shouldn’t be in quotes, but I really like peridot & hopefully you will too!

It’s not that I hate the month of May, but I’m pretty excited for it to be over.  It’s been really difficult to find affordable, quality emeralds. Most people think that emeralds are dark green and very sparkly and very clear. This is very rarely the case because the emeralds that are coming out of the earth now aren’t quality emeralds. However, when the untrained eye sees a bright green, cloudy, spotted emerald they just think ewww. They don’t understand that it may have cost thousands of dollars. An emerald is certainly worthy of such a price. However, it just won’t have the wow factor because it isn’t what people will be expecting.

Chrome Diopside is the deep green color that we associate with emeralds. It is clear, sparkly and looks very expensive. However, it isn’t quite as expensive as an emerald if you can find it. Chrome Diopside has the distinction of being one of the few untreated gemstones. Most gemstones, an estimated a 80-90 percent of gemstones, are heat treated in order to bring out the color. Chrome Diopside has the distinction of being one of the few untreated gemstones. Chrome Diopside is what we think that emeralds should look like, it definitely has the wow factor.