swap_horiz Malachite Alternatives

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Emerald

The emerald is a precious gemstone formed from beryl, a mineral known for its vibrant green hue. Its value stems from in...

Green Jewelry Precious Beryl

9.4 Excellent

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Jadeite

Jadeite is a dense, silicate mineral classified as a pyroxene. It’s notable for its vibrant green color, strongest in va...

Green Jewelry Asian Culture Pyroxene

9.1 Excellent

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Demantoid Garnet

Demantoid garnet is a rare gemstone belonging to the andradite group. It’s notable for its exceptionally high dispersion...

Green Jewelry Rare High Dispersion

9.1 Excellent

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Tsavorite Garnet

Tsavorite garnet is a vibrant green gemstone composed of the mineral grossular. Initially found in Tanzania’s Merelani H...

Green Jewelry East Africa Vivid

8.8 Great

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Hiddenite

Hiddenite is a rare green gemstone variety of the mineral spodumene, recognized for its pale to deep emerald-like green...

North Carolina Green Jewelry Rare

7.5 Good

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Turquoise

Turquoise is an opaque blue-to-green mineral and a hydrated phosphate of copper and aluminium. It has been used as an or...

Jewelry Opaque Blue Green Phosphate

7.3 Good

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Sugilite

Sugilite is a rare purple to pink manganese-bearing cyclosilicate mineral, usually found as opaque masses rather than tr...

Jewelry Rare Purple Opaque

7.2 Good

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Verdelite

Verdelite is the trade and gemological name commonly used for green tourmaline, especially green elbaite. Its color can...

Mid Range Varied Green Jewelry

7.0 Good

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Lapis Lazuli

Lapis lazuli is an opaque blue metamorphic rock rather than a single mineral. It is an aggregate dominated by lazurite,...

Blue Jewelry Ancient Metamorphic

6.8 Fair

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Peridot

Peridot is the gem-quality form of olivine, a mineral whose green color comes mainly from iron in its crystal structure....

Green Jewelry Volcanic Olivine

6.5 Fair

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Moldavite

Moldavite is a natural glass classified as a tektite, formed from terrestrial material melted and ejected during the met...

Glass Green Jewelry Extraterrestrial

6.5 Fair

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Shattuckite

Shattuckite is a rare copper silicate hydroxide mineral that commonly forms in oxidized zones of copper deposits. It is...

Blue Arizona Jewelry Opaque

6.3 Fair

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Gaspeite

Gaspeite is a rare nickel carbonate mineral with the chemical formula (Ni,Fe,Mg)CO3, first described from the Gaspé Peni...

Collector Australia Carbonate Opaque

6.1 Fair

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Azurite

Azurite is a basic copper carbonate mineral recognized by its deep blue to blue-black color and commonly opaque appearan...

Blue Jewelry Vivid Opaque

5.5 Mediocre

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Vesuvianite

Vesuvianite is a calcium-aluminum silicate mineral that forms mainly in contact-metamorphic rocks and some skarns. It oc...

Complex Green Jewelry Idocrase

5.5 Mediocre

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Actinolite

Actinolite is a calcium magnesium iron amphibole mineral that forms a compositional series with tremolite. It commonly o...

Green Jewelry Amphibole Fibrous

5.2 Mediocre

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Rhodonite

Rhodonite is a manganese inosilicate mineral with the chemical formula MnSiO3. It commonly occurs in shades of pink, ros...

Jewelry Ornamental Opaque Pink Black

5.1 Mediocre

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Sardonyx

Sardonyx is a variety of chalcedony, a microcrystalline form of quartz, with layers of reddish-brown sard and lighter-co...

Jewelry Ancient Banded Cameo

5.1 Mediocre

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Hemimorphite

Hemimorphite is a hydrated zinc silicate mineral with the chemical formula Zn4Si2O7(OH)2·H2O. It forms mainly in the oxi...

Jewelry Banded Opaque Blue White

5.1 Mediocre

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Rhodochrosite

Rhodochrosite is a manganese carbonate mineral with the chemical formula MnCO3. It ranges from pale pink to rose-red and...

Pink Colorado Jewelry Banded

5.0 Mediocre