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...
Short answer: January’s birthstone is garnet — but garnet is not one stone. It is a group of related minerals spanning red, orange, green and even colour-changing varieties,...
Short answer: October has two birthstones, opal and tourmaline, and the honest difference between them is durability. Opal is soft and sensitive to water and heat, so a...
Short answer: Gemini has two birthstones because the sign straddles two calendar months.
Short answer: Leo does not have one birthstone, because two different systems answer the question and they rarely agree. Leo runs from about July 23 to August 22,...
Short answer: August has three birthstones — peridot, the main modern stone, plus spinel and sardonyx. Peridot is the yellow-green gem most people mean, sardonyx is the older...
Short answer: Scorpio does not have one birthstone.
