Top 10 World’s Rarest & Most Valuable Gems

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Top 10 Worlds Rarest Most Valuable Gems
It takes millions of years for crystals to form
in nature, and only a fraction of those will ever
be found, mined, cut and sold as gemstones. The
value of gemstones depends on many factors,
including rarity, quality, setting, and even
politics. Dig in to the world of incredibly
expensive jewels with our rundown of ten of the
world's rarest and most valuable gemstones.
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Tanzanite
Found only in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro,
in Northern Tanzania, this blue-purple stone is
another highly prized color-shifting gem. Due to
the limited availability, Tanzanite may be mined
out within 20-30 years. It will doubtless become
even more desirable and valuable.
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Taaffeite
Taaffeite (pronounced "tar-fite") is named for
Australian gemologist Richard Taaffe, who
discovered a cut and polished specimen of the
stone in 1945. Only a handful of these precious
stones have ever been found, making them a true
collector's gem.
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Black Opal
The rarest type of Opal, the national gemstone of
Australia, Black Opal is also the most valuable
gem of its kind. Almost all available Black Opal
comes from the Lightning Ridge mine in New South
Wales.
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Benitoite
Benitoite is a blue to purple gemstone first
discovered in 1907
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Red Beryl also called Scarlet Emerald or
bixbite, Red Beryl has only been found in Utah
and New Mexico and the only commercial mine is
found in the Wah Wah Mountains of Utah.
Red Beryl
It has been described as 1,000 times more
valuable than gold cut stones regularly sell for
more than 2,000 per carat - and as much as
10,000 per carat.
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Alexandrite
Alexandrite is a color-changing gemstone its hue
shifts from red to green depending on the light
it's exposed to. Alexandrite is a color-changing
gemstone its hue shifts from red to green
depending on the light it's exposed to.
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Jadeite
Jadeite may sound like the various semi-precious
stones known informally as "jade," but this
incredibly rare gem is many times more valuable.
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Musgravite was discovered in 1967 in the Musgrave
Range of Southern Australia, and for many years
there were only eight known specimens. Recently,
small quantities of Musgravite have been located
in Greenland, Antarctica, Sri Lanka, Madagascar
and Tanzania.
Musgravite
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Painite
In the 1950s, minerologist Arthur C.D. Paine
encountered an unusual brownish stone in Myanmar
(Burma) that turned out to be one of the planet's
rarest gems.
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Pink Star Diamond
The Pink Star Diamond is a "Fancy Vivid Pink"
diamond that was mined in 1999 in South Africa.
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