06/01/2026
Happy birthday, June babies! Did you know that you have 3 birthstones? They include Alexandrite, Pearl, and Moonstone.
Alexandrite: It’s the color-change variety of the mineral, chrysoberyl. Bluish-green in daylight, purplish red under incandescent light; hard and durable. Top-quality examples are rare and valuable. Originally discovered in Russia’s Ural Mountains in the 1830s, it’s now found in Sri Lanka, East Africa, and Brazil. Often described by gem aficionados as “emerald by day, ruby by night.”
Pearl: Produced in the bodies of marine and freshwater mollusks naturally or cultured by people with great care. Lustrous, smooth, subtly-colored pearls are jewelry staples, especially as strands. Perhaps the best-loved gems of all time, pearls—natural and cultured—occur in a wide variety of colors. They date back to at least 2206 BC when they were first written about. In 1917, Pierre Cartier traded a double strand of natural pearls for a mansion on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
Moonstone: A ghostly sheen moves under the surface of this feldspar, like moonlight glowing on the water. It's prized for its billowy blue adularescence, caused by light scattering from an intergrowth of microscopic, alternating layers. The minerals in the Feldspar family make up 60% of the Earth’s rocky crust. Moonstone is found in Tanzania, India, Sri Lanka, and Madagascar.
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