Peridot

What is peridot?

✨ Olivine is a magnesium-iron silicate mineral, belongs to the rhombohedral crystal system, the crystals are columnar or thick plate, the common monomorphisms are parallel bifacial, rhombohedral columns and rhombohedral bipyramidal, but the crystal shape is intact, the crystals are often in the form of fragments, the nature of the brittle and fragile. The surface is glassy, transparent, the color is medium to dark grass green, slightly yellowish green, part of the greenish yellow, a small number of greenish brown, or even brown. Hue mainly with the amount of iron content and change, the higher the iron content, the deeper the color, the greater the hardness.

1. In China, it is known as the “Stone of Happiness”, symbolizing the happiness and harmony of couples, and it is believed to have medicinal value and can be used to pray for good health.
2. It is also the birthstone of the month of August in European and American culture, symbolizing gentleness and wisdom, family prosperity, and marital harmony. In the Middle Ages, it was used as an amulet to protect the wearer from evil spirits and night terrors.
3. The Egyptians called peridot the “sun stone” and believed it had the power of the sun and could be worn to ward off the demons of the night.
4. In Hawaiian lore, olivine is said to be the tears of Pele, the volcano goddess.
5. Peridot is considered a symbol of life, hope and vitality because of its distinctive green color. Its green hue gives a fresh and comfortable feeling, reminding one of the vitality and beauty of nature.

How is olivine formed

Unique spherical meteorites with olivine aggregates, which began to form during the nebular condensation phase at the beginning of the solar system, are considered by scientists to be the “first message from the solar system” and can be used to infer the initial physical properties and chemical composition of the solar nebula. The causes of olivine formation are classified as magmatic, metamorphic and hydrothermal. It is mainly formed in dark basaltic or ultramafic rocks such as peridotite, gabbro and basalt, and in metamorphic rocks of magnesian carbonates, and is often coeval with pyroxene and calc-plagioclase feldspar.

What are the types of olivine?

Gem-quality peridot can be categorized according to its hue as：

• 1️⃣Intense yellow-green olivine,
• 2️⃣Golden yellow-green peridot,
• 3️⃣yellowish green olivine,
• 4️⃣Intense green peridot (also known as dusk emerald or western emerald, evening primrose emerald)
• 5️⃣Celestial Gemstones (produced in meteorites, very rare, i.e., iron-nickel alloy in stone-iron meteorites encased in large transparent crystals of olivine).

Gemstone specifications and characteristics

Olivine is a general term for silicate minerals of magnesium and iron with an island-like structure. Magnesium peridotite and iron peridotite are in a completely analogous and homogeneous series. It can be formed under very extreme conditions, is highly heat resistant, and can be found in some meteorites. Popularly known as the “twilight emerald” because of its beautiful olive-yellow green color.The English name “Olivine” is derived from the Latin word “Oliva oliva”, which describes its typical olive green color. Along with spinel, it is the birthstone for August.

✅Gemstone Group: Peridot

✅Chemical Composition: (Mg,Fe)₂SiO₄

✅Crystal system: rhombohedral

✅Color: olive green, emerald green, yellowish green, etc.

✅Transparency: transparent to translucent

✅Luster: glassy

✅Refractive index: 1.654-1.690

✅Hardness: 6.5-7

✅Specific gravity: 3.27-3.48

What does peridot symbolize and represent ?

As the birthstone for the month of August, is the guardian of “Leo” and symbolizes peace and good fortune. The warm yellow-green color of the gemstone seems to enclose the sun’s rays, and was believed by the ancient Egyptians to guard the wearer.

1. Peace and Happiness: Peridot is known as the “Stone of Happiness”, symbolizing peace, beauty and happiness.
2. Luck and good fortune: As the birthstone of August, olivine guards Leo, symbolizing luck and other good intentions.
3. “Stone of Luck”: adorned on the 7th level of the foundation of the wall of the Holy City of New Jerusalem in the Bible, it represents the number “7”, which accompanies good fortune and success.
4. Positive Energy and Dispelling Darkness: Olivine’s color is similar to that of the sun and is considered a symbol of the sun, representing positive energy and the ability to dispel darkness.

What is the special meaning of peridot？

Peridot is believed to be protective and balancing, bringing inner peace and happiness and enhancing the wearer’s confidence and expression.Symbolizing hope and peace, it brings inner peace and happiness.Symbolizing luck and fortune, it attracts good fortune and success.

💎Birthstones

The birthstone for the month of August is believed to bring happiness and good health.

💎Guardian Signs

♌ Leo (July 23 – August 22)

💎Guardian Zodiac Signs

All zodiac signs, especially the Dragon and Snake, enhance their confidence and protective powers.

💎Five Elements

Peridot is of wood and is suitable for those who need to increase their peace and good fortune.

🧘Chakra Associations

Peridot is associated with the Heart Chakra and Solar Plexus Chakra and enhances emotional health and self-confidence.

Olivine’s spiritual healing properties

• Emotional regulation: Peridot’s bright color gives a fresh and natural look, helps relieve tension, irritability and depression, brings positive energy, calms the nerves, makes people sit still and improves the quality of sleep. It is helpful for people who are irritable, jealous, conceited and depressed, smoothing out nervous agitation and depression.
• Enhances Aura & Wards Off Evil: Gemstones increase one’s own aura and magnetic field, giving positive energy. Wearing peridot jewelry helps to strengthen the aura and energy field, and can ward off evil spirits, prevent malicious attacks by evil spirits, and avoid bad things from approaching.
• Brings Luck and Opportunity: iKarmaGems believes that it helps to bring lucky energy, making it easy to run into good friends, get help from people and get better opportunities.
• Promotes Family Harmony: As the birthstone of August, Gems symbolizes conjugal bliss, family happiness and harmony between husband and wife, and promotes harmony in the family and between husband and wife.
• Inspires ambition and maturity of character: it can inspire ambition and daring to create new situations, as well as maturity of character, allowing one to face life’s challenges appropriately.
• Eliminate Fear: iKarmaGems believes that Peridot can remove people’s fear of the darkness of the night, while granting the wearer a gentle disposition and good hearing.

History and Origin of Gems

The history of human use of olivine dates back to 1500 B.C., when it was first discovered and mined by the ancient Egyptians on the island of Zabajad in the Red Sea. Peridot was the world’s most important green gemstone before 1500 AD, when Europeans had no access to emeralds.

Cultural symbolism and evolution of its use:

Ancient Egypt: The ancient Egyptians revered the power of it, believing that it could guard the wearer, banish fear from the darkness, ward off evil spirits and protect the body, giving it the reputation of being the “gemstone of the sun”. Peridot has been inlaid in the jewelry unearthed from many ancient tombs in Egypt and Rome, and was used as priestly jewelry at that time.

Middle Ages: Olivine was set in church reliquaries to symbolize holiness and purity, and was also used in chalices and churches in Europe. In some temples in Jerusalem, there are still peridots set thousands of years ago. For centuries, gems was also used as an amulet to protect the wearer from evil spirits and “night terrors”.

Renaissance: Peridot became a fashionable gemstone sought after by the nobility, and its greenish color shone in magnificent courts.

Other cultures: In ancient times, gems was given to tribes as a sign of peace in the event of war; the Bible records that one of the twelve precious stones adorning the breastplates of senior clergy represented the twelve tribes of Israel, and one of these stones was the olivine; in the time of Ancient Hawaii, olivine crystals were believed to be the tears of the goddess of volcanoes, Belle; the Ancient Greeks and Romans used the peridot in jewelry such as rings and pendants, believing that it conferred nobility and status. that it conferred nobility.

Modern value: Today, olivine is the birthstone for the month of August, guarding the sign of Leo, and symbolizing peace, good fortune and other good intentions. on April 12, 2011, a set of antique peridot necklaces from the 1870s sold for $302,500 at Christie’s New York, USA, in the “Magnificent Jewels” auction. The necklace sold for $302,500, or approximately 1.98 million dollars.

Origins

Earthly origin: Peridot is the most important rock-forming mineral of the mantle and is born in the Earth’s mantle region. Olivine crystals are formed in magma under the high temperature and pressure of the mantle, and then, after a long period of geologic change, they are pushed up to the surface by tectonic or volcanic activity and are embedded in igneous rocks.

Outer space origin: scientists in the falling meteorites, comet dust, the moon and Mars have found the figure of olivine, these outer space peridot is called “heavenly gem”, adding a cosmic mysterious color.

How much is peridot worth？

The price of peridot is affected by a variety of factors such as quality, size, cut, transparency and color, and the specific price range is as follows:

📿The price of peridot on the market ranges roughly from a few tens to a few thousand dollars per carat. Small carat (1 – 3 carat) gems are more common and cost around $800 – $1500 a carat; 3 – 10 carat are rare, around 5 carats cost around $600 a carat; peridots over ten carats can cost up to around $3000 per carat. Peridots of very good purity and color start at around $300 per carat, while smaller carats may cost only a few tens of dollars per carat. Regular peridot generally costs a few tens of dollars or more, with more expensive stones costing hundreds of dollars, and higher-end stones costing around $2,000 – $3,500.

Jewelry Price: Peridot bracelets are generally priced at $50-$200; well-made olivine jewelry is priced at $100-$1000, with the highest generally not exceeding $10,000 USD.

• Decorative value: olivine has a unique green tone, bright colors, looks fresh and natural, its clear and beautiful color is very pleasing to the eye, often used in the production of brooches, rings, earrings, rings, necklaces and other jewelry, is the current popular fashion elements.
• Cultural value: Olivine is also known as the sun gemstone, which is believed to have great power like the sun. Its stone language is happiness and fulfillment, which can bring people endless hope. In ancient times, when some tribes were at war, they used to give peridot to each other to show peace, and there are still olivine stones set thousands of years ago in some temples in Jerusalem.