Entries by Laura

Diamond cut: shapes, types, quality & formation – Kapitalanlage Edelstein

Diamonds are known to have the unique property of refracting light in such a way that it intensely sparkles, reflects, bends and scatters light. There is no comparison. That’s why the value of diamonds continues to rise. Today, 1 carat (0.2 gram) will cost you 7,116.17 USD or 5,990.54 EUR. Besides the brilliance, the cut […]

Buy Garnet: Price, Color, Occurrence & Value – Investment Gemstone

Buy Garnet – The garnet, the birthstone of January, is especially in demand because of its extraordinary color. Due to the high light refraction and the good hardness of the gemstone garnet, it is made for sparkling gemstone jewelry. The purity of the garnet gemstone is very important. The purer the stone, the more valuable […]

Buy Jade: Price, Characteristics, Color & Value – Investment Gemstone

Buy Jade – Jade is especially in demand among investors in China. The stone or the mineral, compared to gold, is not that expensive. Gold currently costs 61 USD per gram, having cracked the 2,000 USD mark. Jade currently costs only USD 0.81 per gram. Processed into status symbols and jewellery, however, it is becoming […]

Buy Poudretteite: Price, Value & Jewellery – Investment Gemstone

Buy Poudretteite – Poudretteite is one of the rarest gemstones known. It was named after the Poudrette family, the owners and operators of a quarry near Mont Saint-Hilaire in Quebec, Canada, where the mineral was first found. Gemstone and precious stone poudretteite The natural color of poudretteite varies from colorless to a saturated pink or […]

Buy Taaffeite: Occurrence, Value & Price – Investment Gemstone

Taaffeite is one of the rarer known gemstones, and you will often see it on lists of the world’s most exotic stones, along with minerals like painite, musgravite, and grandidierite. Before its discovery, most of these stones were mistaken for spinel. It remains one of the rarest gem minerals in the world and its certain […]

Buying Grandidierite: Value, Price, Occurrence & Jewellery – Investment Gemstone

Buy Grandidierite – French mineralogist Alfred Lacroix found the first reported samples of grandidierite in 1902. He discovered the gemstone on the cliffs of Andrahomana in southern Madagascar. It is a gemstone that has subtle inclusions called feathers. These are formed by fluids that have hardened inside the crystal over millions of years. Grandidierite gemstone: […]

Buying Zircon: Price, Color, Origin & Value – Investment Gemstone

Buy Zircon – Zircon is a popular gemstone that comes in almost every color and is often used as a diamond substitute. The color of zircon can be changed by heat, and you can usually find the gemstone as a round or oval faceted cut. The gemstone is used as a jewelry stone, but also […]

Buy Topaz: Value, Price, Color & Cut – Investment Gemstone

Buying Topaz – Although clarity and size have a significant impact on the value of topaz, color has the biggest impact on pricing. The highest values go to the rare pink and red stones, followed by orange and yellow color variations. Yellow, orange and brown stones are somewhat common. Colorless topaz is widely available and […]

Buy Red Beryl: Value, Price & Bixbit Jewelry – Investment Gemstone

Red beryls, which are of high purity, intense in color and natural and also have a high weight, are traded at top prices. In recent years, the red beryl or bixbite has established itself as one of the most expensive minerals in the world. The largest red beryl ever found weighs 54 carats uncut and […]

Buy Emerald: Price, Carat, Quality & Value – Investment Gemstone

The emerald is a very valuable green to greenish-blue gemstone of the mineral species beryl. The most expensive emeralds have a pure green color with a vivid color saturation that is evenly distributed throughout the stone with no visible color differences. These come primarily from the mines of Colombia and Brazil fetch prices of several […]

Buying Sapphire: Value, Price Color & Popular Cuts – Investment Gemstone

Buy Sapphire – the pure white diamond, the red ruby, the green emerald and the blue sapphire complete the quartet of the most valuable and popular gemstones in the world. No gemstones are as sought after as these four beautiful jewels. A sapphire is the name given to all non-red varieties of the mineral corundum. […]

E-mobility in Germany: The advantages & disadvantages and the best models in the ranking

E-mobility is the key to a climate-friendly transport turnaround. Especially in combination with regeneratively generated electricity, significantly less CO2 would be emitted. But which e-car model is best suited as an investment? And can models from Volkswagen keep up with sports cars from Porsche or Tesla? Are you generally interested in investments? Here you will […]