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Top 10 World’s Rarest & Most Valuable Gems

What are the most valuable gems in the world according to both rarity and price? As we all are aware about diamonds, rubies, sapphires and emeralds that fall on the list. Let’s have a look at some particularly unique species of these stones as well as others you may not be as familiar with.

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Top 10 World’s Rarest & Most Valuable Gems

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  1. Top 10 World’s Rarest & Most Valuable Gems It takes millions of years for crystals to form in nature, and only a fraction of those will ever be found, mined, cut and sold as gemstones. The value of gemstones depends on many factors, including rarity, quality, setting, and even politics. Dig in to the world of incredibly expensive jewels with our rundown of ten of the world's rarest and most valuable gemstones.

  2. Tanzanite Found only in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, in Northern Tanzania, this blue-purple stone is another highly prized color-shifting gem. Due to the limited availability, Tanzanite may be mined out within 20-30 years. It will doubtless become even more desirable and valuable.

  3. Taaffeite Taaffeite (pronounced "tar-fite") is named for Australian gemologist Richard Taaffe, who discovered a cut and polished specimen of the stone in 1945. Only a handful of these precious stones have ever been found, making them a true collector's gem.

  4. Black Opal The rarest type of Opal, the national gemstone of Australia, Black Opal is also the most valuable gem of its kind. Almost all available Black Opal comes from the Lightning Ridge mine in New South Wales.

  5. Benitoite Benitoite is a blue to purple gemstone first discovered in 1907

  6. Red Beryl also called Scarlet Emerald or bixbite, Red Beryl has only been found in Utah and New Mexico and the only commercial mine is found in the WahWah Mountains of Utah. Red Beryl It has been described as 1,000 times more valuable than gold: cut stones regularly sell for more than $2,000 per carat - and as much as $10,000 per carat.

  7. Alexandrite Alexandrite is a color-changing gemstone: its hue shifts from red to green depending on the light it's exposed to. Alexandrite is a color-changing gemstone: its hue shifts from red to green depending on the light it's exposed to.

  8. Jadeite Jadeite may sound like the various semi-precious stones known informally as "jade," but this incredibly rare gem is many times more valuable.

  9. Musgravite was discovered in 1967 in the Musgrave Range of Southern Australia, and for many years there were only eight known specimens. Recently, small quantities of Musgravite have been located in Greenland, Antarctica, Sri Lanka, Madagascar and Tanzania. Musgravite

  10. Painite In the 1950s, minerologist Arthur C.D. Paine encountered an unusual brownish stone in Myanmar (Burma) that turned out to be one of the planet's rarest gems.

  11. Pink Star Diamond The Pink Star Diamond is a "Fancy Vivid Pink" diamond that was mined in 1999 in South Africa.

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