{"id":48,"date":"2015-11-18T00:40:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T00:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/?p=48"},"modified":"2018-04-05T16:13:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T23:13:54","slug":"an-introduction-to-gemstones-part-2-rarit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/gemstones\/an-introduction-to-gemstones-part-2-rarit.html","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction to Gemstones \u2013 Part 2- Rarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_50\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50  \" title=\"benitoite\" src=\"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/benitoite.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"206\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-50\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the rarest gemstones, but certainly not one of the most valuable<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Gemstone rarity<\/strong> can affect the gemstone\u2019s value and desirability greatly. One interesting fact is that the<strong> rarest gemstones are not necessarily the most expensive<\/strong>.  Very  rare gemstones create an interesting delima for the gemstone jewelry  industry.  If a gemstone is too rare, most people are not aware of it  and it would take a significant amount of marketing dollars to educate  the public about the gem (thereby creating a demand for it).  It is not  practical for the gemstone industry to spend this money when only  an extremely limited quantity of it is available for sale. Benitoite, a  beautiful purple blue gem found only in one place on earth, California,  is an example of such a gem.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the rarest, but well known gemstones include ruby, <a title=\"Sapphire Rings\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myjewelrysource.com\/blue_sapphire_rings.htm\" target=\"_blank\">sapphire<\/a> and emerald. They are not so rare that supply cannot keep up with  demand. The rarity of these gemstones adds to the mystery and  desirability. Gems must also be available in sufficient quantities to  stay in the public consciousness year after year. You might be surprised  to learn that many gemstones are much rarer than diamonds, but the  demand for diamonds is much greater thereby comanding a higher price.<\/p>\n<p>Please see our next blog for a discussion on durability.  We are just  getting started on our educational series covering everything that goes  into creating beautiful <a title=\"Gemstone Jewelry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry.htm\" target=\"_blank\">gemstone jewelry<\/a> from gemstone creation, mining, treatment and jewelry manufacturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gemstone rarity can affect the gemstone\u2019s value and desirability greatly. One interesting fact is that the rarest gemstones are not necessarily the most expensive. Very rare gemstones create an interesting delima for the gemstone jewelry industry. If a gemstone is too rare, most people are not aware of it and it would take a significant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[42,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myjewelrysource.com\/gemstone-jewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}