Jewelry Box

Most people associate garnets with jewelry like garnet necklaces, bracelets and earrings. But before becoming your birthstone these rocks must become minerals. Garnets are formed when higher-grade metamorphic processes occur. These gems are often present in stones like schist and gneiss.

While most garnets are formed by the standard metamorphic process, others are formed when certain rocks are rolled between two moving surfaces. The rolling surfaces can pick up and preserve the lower-grade metamorphic rocks that would normally be decimated by higher processes. Because of their hardness and variety in color garnets are one of the most popular gems used in jewelry making.

Did you know that that sapphire ring you wear on your finger could be affecting your quality of life? Many people don’t know this, and some of those who do just don’t believe it. But, many astrologists and alternative medicine practitioners do. They believe that the sapphire enhances creativity, intuition and meditation. Sapphires come in almost every color of the rainbow, from the traditional blue, to the rarer orange sapphire.

Sapphires are said help to heal physical ailments like high fevers, inflammation, cancer, hearing problems, and burns. Sapphires can also help improve the mental clarity of those who wear them. Students, for example, may try wearing a piece of sapphire jewelry when studying to maintain better focus. Depression has also been known to be treated through the use of sapphires.