{"id":263,"date":"2017-11-24T22:28:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T22:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gemsbywandamarie.com\/?p=263"},"modified":"2017-11-25T05:44:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T05:44:03","slug":"about-onyx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemsbywandamarie.com\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"About: Onyx"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Onyx<\/b>\u00a0is a semi-precious oxide mineral gemstone that most often comes in a banded variety of black and white, but may be any number of colors including layered rings of blue, purple, and red. Pure black Onyx is the most popular, but the red variety often with yellow bands known as Sard or Sardonyx is much more rare.\u00a0<\/sup><\/p>\n

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Raw (as from the ground)<\/p>\n

Unpolished<\/p>\n

Uncut<\/p>\n

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Polished, but Uncut<\/p>\n

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Cut and Polished<\/p>\n

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Rare Form: Sard or Sardonyx<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> Onyx\u00a0is a semi-precious oxide mineral gemstone that most often comes in a banded variety of black and white, but may be any number of colors including layered rings of blue, purple, and red. Pure black Onyx is the most popular, but the red variety often with yellow bands known as Sard or Sardonyx is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

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Turquoise<\/b>\u00a0is an opaque precious gemstone with color that generally ranges from blue to green and often contains white, brown or orange streaks and \/ or flecks. There is a rare form known as \"White Turquiose\" that is a very light, almost white shade of blue, green, or bluish green, but all turquoise is some shade of blue and \/ or green.\u00a0 Among the first minerals to be valued and mined, this precious stone was sought after by royalty in Egypt, Europe, Arabia, and Meso-America dating back more than 3000 years<\/p>

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Raw (as from the ground)<\/p>

Unpolished<\/p>

Uncut<\/p>

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Polished, but Uncut<\/p>

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Cut and Polished<\/p>

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Rare Form: White Turquoise<\/p>

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