Light Green Stone With Purple Spots

Clear with green black inclusions.

Light green stone with purple spots.

Yellow green stones can still be quite attractive but won t reach top dollar. Green gems may have blue or yellow secondary hues present. Typical botryoidal clusters of bottle green prehnite crystals. It is called kiwi stone because it is reportedly from new zealand.

Prehnite is a silicate derived from calcium and aluminum. Dark stone blending black grey and brown colors with cream specks. Some people call it jasper but that name is incorrect. However most apatite stones have visible inclusions.

For example white metals such as platinum silver or white gold give a contemporary look to green gemstones while rose gold offers a unique vintage look. Kiwi stone has dark black spots on a faint bluish green background. Grey smoky color with blue green. Green gemstones and metals.

Translucent grey color with occasional banding. Matteo chinellato chinellatophoto getty images. Charoite is a light lavender to deep purple silicate mineral that has swirling fibrous or spotted patterns. It is composed of quartzite and the black spots are flakes of chlorite.

In general a pure green hue is the most desirable and more expensive. Grey black brown jasper zebra. The mineral has a light bottle green color and is translucent with a glassy luster. Often an opaque green stone its nickname is transvaal jade because it looks like jade and is found in the transvaal area of south africa.

It can frequently be found in botryoidal clusters in pockets along with zeolite minerals.