Short answer: your zodiac stone and your birth-month stone are usually two different stones, because every star sign straddles two calendar months — and unlike the month list,...
Short answer: the modern U.S. list runs garnet, amethyst, aquamarine, diamond, emerald, pearl, ruby, peridot, sapphire, opal, topaz, turquoise — but six of the twelve months carry more...
Short answer: March has two birthstones — aquamarine, the blue variety of beryl, and bloodstone, a dark green chalcedony flecked with red. Almost every March guide covers the...
Short answer: May’s birthstone is emerald — the green variety of beryl, which the U.S. Geological Survey places at 7.5 to 8 on the Mohs hardness scale. That...
Short answer: July's birthstone is ruby — and ruby is not its own mineral. It is corundum, the same species as sapphire. Red corundum is called ruby; every...
Short answer: November has two birthstones — topaz and citrine. What almost nobody tells you is that the versions of both you are most likely to be sold...
Short answer: September's birthstone is sapphire — and sapphire is not a blue stone. It is the mineral corundum, and it comes in every color except red, because...
Short answer: April’s birthstone is diamond — and that single word covers three different things once you start shopping. Mined and lab-grown diamonds are both genuinely diamond.
Short answer: February’s birthstone is amethyst — the purple variety of quartz, which the U.S. Geological Survey places at 7 on the Mohs hardness scale. That one number...
