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Color, clarity, price and treatments — how to spot quality amethyst, avoid overpaying and tell it from glass.
Glass and resin fakes flood the market. These five home tests — temperature, clarity, hardness, weight and price — help you tell them apart.
From garnet in January to turquoise in December — discover the traditional birthstone for every month and its meaning.
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Pick two stones and get one straight verdict on whether they can share a wrist — and what to do when the hardness gap says no. Covers 39 stones.
All twelve months with hardness, whether the stone survives a ring, the modern additions and the budget alternative for each.
Answer a dozen questions and the symptoms sort themselves into glass, treated or seller-risk — three answers that call for three different responses.
Budget, wear, hand use and colour in; the stones that survive all four come out, along with the treatments to avoid at that price.
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