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Organic stones are all those gems that are formed by skeletons, products, by-products or components organic animals or plants.
The main organic gems used in jewelry are pearls, coral, and amber.

Organic stones

 

PEARLS

Pearls are the Queens of gems, this is due to that the pearls were discovered more than 4,000 years ago and they have been used as important elements in many ancient cultures.
The natural and cultivated there are two types of pearls. These two types of pearls are valued by their texture, brightness, color, size, shapes and imperfections.
Natural pearls are produced without any intervention of man. These are formed by different types of mollusks such as oysters, clams and mussels. They can be found both in freshwater and saltwater. The most important deposits of natural pearls are in certain areas of the Pacific Ocean and the Persian Gulf. Natural pearls are extremely rare is that they are usually more expensive than cultured pearls.
Cultured pearls are pearls that man has intervened for their formation, usually involves farms clams or another series of molluscs which are introduced to certain nutrients and chemicals which make the shellfish to produce pearls, this process takes 2-3 years depending on the season and the temperature of the water. The creation of the cultivation of pearls has made that these may be more available for the consumption of persons without such high prices. More however there are also cultured pearls of very good quality and without imperfections that can be just as or even more than a natural Pearl.

The Coral

The coral is a organic sedimentary rock formed by skeletons of small soft-bodied animals called polyps, live in colonies and are forming branched structures to grow, to build what is known as coral reefs. They do not tend to be very hard, and its texture is porous with a 50% empty space. They can be red, pink, Brown and black. Formed in shallow coastal areas to no more than 100 meters. In the jewelry used to make beads of different shapes for necklaces, earrings, rings, bracelets and pendants.
In ancient times there was a Roman cult stranger by coral, which believed that it symbolized the blood which is life, the tree, the cosmos and the sea as a source of life.
Attributed healing properties and the ability to preserve their bearers of damage, for example: the evil eye, for this reason the Romans hung a small red coral from the neck of children, usual that lasted until the middle ages.
Currently in Italy, still considered that the coral, as well as protecting its bearer of negative vibrations, also cures infertility; dirty colors like black coral, and Brown is believed to attract the forces of evil. Red coral is the most appreciated, is it usually carve and mold to make accounts, use in simple ornaments dates back to the stone age.
According to traces found it was used by the Olmecs, Maya and Aztecs, in rustic form in its ornaments.

Amber

Amber is a fossilized plant resin from remains of conifer. It is a hard, light and crisp; It is the unique semi-precious stone of vegetable origin. It belongs to the Group of Jet organic gems, pearls or corals. It is formed of a residual plant resin of trees dating from 25 to 40 million years ago and eventually suffered a process of fossilization forming extensive and irregular masses within the strata of sandstone and clayey Shales of tertiary age. Amber colors are eight: yellow (the most common), Orange (cognac), red (cherry), white, coffee (caramel), “black” and bluish green or MOSS (dark shades of other colors) that are less frequent than the yellow. These colors indicate a wide range of hues. Amber is located in Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Latvia and Russia in Europe and in Latin America is Mexico, Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua. Red amber of Chiapas is of the most beautiful and valued.
In ancient times it was thought that Amber had properties Mystic or magical, being used by many cultures as a talisman or medicinal remedy. Depending on its quality, it may have commercial interest as a material for making jewelry, this being their main use today.

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