where can you find jemstons?

Answer 1

You can find gemstones almost anywhere, but best places to start will be Africa, Brazil and India. A lot of people trying there luck and some get out pretty rich, but some get killed in the process.

Here are some places you can try:

Alexandrite


Various color stones
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Good luck.

Answer 2

Well Gems, if you you meant precious and semi precious stones then you have to restrict your search to specific stones first. The reason being like all minerals these stones are aslo part of specific rock types but occur rarely. This means that even if you have a rock which is a host of a particular kind of precious or semi precious stone, your chances of finding it is rare.

These stones are in demand for following reasons:
rarity
beauty
hardness
transparency
colour
price
etc.

say if you want to search diamonds, you have to searh for Kimberlite, lamproite etc. the two chief rock types that are known to be the host for diamonds. Also weathering may remove the rock and relatively enrich the soil or gravel in diamnods. Similarly another rock which has clastic material from kimberlite, lamprote etc. can also be the source of diamonds (diamandiferous conglomerate). Rember chances of finding of diamond is rare as a result large volume of these rocks are mined to extract diamonds. One can always pan the sediments eroded and accumulated by streams drining the areas where these rocks are found. Even the Talus/scree material c is a good place to hunt for it.

Same is for Ruby, Sapphire, Topaz which are relatively more rare than Garnet, varieties of felspar (moonstone etc.), quartz hence costly, you have to know the rock types that host these minerals.
Rember, the rarity increase the price and the stones becomes sought after commodity.

For these minerals the best rocks are high grade metamorphic rocks, pegmatites, skarns etc and their weahtered products or rocks derived from them.

Gems are the finished or valu added products made from these stones for which these stone sare cut and polished by experts to enhance their brillance or fire etc.

Answer 3

U could find a lot in river gravel,get u a hardness chart and find out that a lot of the rocks are about the hardness as garnet ,not hard compared to diamonds but is hard.

Answer 4

nowhere. jemstones are figments of your imagination.

gem stones, on the other hand... you can find at your local jeweler. some are mined, others are found in placer deposits. pick up a local rockhounding guidbook for help.

Answer 5

the best ones are in your heart...


they rest are not as valuable........