A Gallery of Colorful Cabochon Gemstones (original) (raw)

Agua Nueva Agate: A colorful fortification agate from Mexico.

Alexandrite: The color-change variety of chrysoberyl.

Amazonite: A bluish green member of the feldspar mineral group.

Amber: A fossilized tree resin, cut and polished as a gem.

Amethyst: The world's most popular purple gemstone.

Apatite: An oval cab of shimmering green apatite.

Charoite: A vibrant purple silicate mineral with bands and swirls.

Chrome Tremolite: A variety of tremolite from New York.

Chrysocolla and Malachite: Beautiful copper minerals.

Chrysocolla in Quartz: A copper mineral in quartz.

Chrysoprase: Chalcedony with a green color that is caused by traces of nickel.

Coyamito Agate: A colorful fortification agate from Mexico.

Crazy Lace Agate: A favorite lapidary material since the 1960s.

Eudialyte: A beautiful red cabochon of eudialyte.

Fluorite: This fluorite cab has bands of yellow, green, and purple.

Fossil Coral: A silicified marine organism.

Garnet: Nine gemmy round cabs of the mineral.

Idaho Opal: An opal triplet cabochon with an amazing pattern.

Jasper: This specimen is dotted with lots of little "eyes".

Kyanite: A blue or green silicate mineral.

Labradorite: A feldspar mineral with an electric-bright flash.

Leopard Skin: A spotted rock from Mexico.

Malachite: A copper carbonate mineral from Africa.

Mookaite: Silicified radiolarite from Australia.

Moonstone: A gemstone of the feldspar mineral family.

Morado Opal: A purple common opal from Mexico.

Rainbow Obsidian: A baroque cabochon with an iridescent sheen.

Owyhee Opal: A translucent blue opal from Oregon.

Peridot: A transparent teardrop-shaped cab of peridot.

Rutilated Quartz: Golden rutile needles in clear quartz.

Seraphinite: A variety of clinochlore.

Spessartite Garnet: A gemmy orange garnet.

Sugilite: A rare pink to purple gemstone and silicate mineral.

Sunstone: Oregon sunstone with abundant copper platelets.

Tourmaline: A colorful collection of tourmalines.

Turquoise: This turquoise cab has a lovely robin's-egg blue color.

Variscite: An aluminum phosphate mineral from Utah.

Vesuvianite: A mineral also known as "idocrase".

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