Emerald Rings
Choosing Emerald Rings
By Ted Crist
If you have someone special in your life, and you want to give her something special, you can give her emerald rings as a gift, especially if her favorite color is green. Emerald is one of the precious stones besides diamond, sapphire and ruby. Emerald hardness level is between 7.5 and 8 moh’s scale.
Emerald rings sometimes used as engagement rings or for wedding rings. If you want something different for your engagement day, you can use emerald rings. I’m sure it will attract more attention than if you used diamonds rings. However, you can always give emerald rings as a gift for your special one without have to wait for some special moment such as engagement. They also gave for 20th, 35th, or 55th wedding anniversaries. The conclusion is emerald is so flexible to use for any occasions, either as a gift, engagement rings, anniversary rings, anything.
Best quality emeralds are comes from Colombia. The other country that produces good quality emerald is Brazil, America and Russia. There are also synthetic or simulant emeralds. They are grown in laboratory by creating condition similarly in nature.
Most people don’t realize that emerald is a precious stone. Emerald rings can be as much expensive as diamond rings. Before you buy emerald rings, there are several things you should consider such as the material to used as a ring, the settings and emerald quality itself
Emerald will match perfectly with white color metal such as white gold, platinum, titanium, silver or even stainless steel. But if you want more vivid looks, you can use yellow gold as the ring material; it’s just a matter of taste.
After you choose the ring material, you have to decided which setting you will be used. You can use just one emerald stone on your rings or you can use another stones to enhance the beauty of emerald. Diamonds is another stones that usually chosen to used together with emerald. Whatever setting that you choose, you must remember that emerald have brittle characteristic, so you must choose the setting that will protect its vulnerable point.
Color is one of the most important factors that determine the quality of emerald. Good quality emerald will have deep vivid green color. It will worth much more than emerald with pale color. The color also should be uniform. The other factors to consider are clarity (inclusions), the cut (polish and symmetry) and of course carat.
Jeweler offer many style and models of emerald rings with many different rings material, settings and emerald quality. But if you want to be more unique, you can buy just the emerald stone and ask the jeweler to make the rings. Just make sure you go to the well known jeweler to do this job.
About the author:
Ted Crist is an avid writer, providing two minutes guide on diamonds, rings and jewelry. Feel free to publish, use or edit my article (for grammar corrections), but I would be very appreciate if you put link back to DiamondsRings99.com.
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