Gemstone Identification & Information

Both Zales and Blue Nile are trusted names in the diamond industry. Here is a small brief of these companies.

Zale is the leading specialty retailer of jewelry in North America with all its subsidiaries spread throughout. It was founded in 1924 and has its executive offices located in Irving, Texas. It has more than 15,000 employees and has a net income of over 50 million USD.

In 1886, when Burma was ruled by British, the ruby mines were leased out in auctions. Soon there had appeared a company named, The Burma Ruby Mines Limited, which constructed big roads, opened the electricity distribution centre, arranged for potable water, installed machines for human’s use.

By the year1893, the company developed the areas in such multipurpose ways that production of gemstones and jewels went up by a few times more. It also started to produce spinels, blue sapphires and tourmalines along with rubies. Later, the market became flooded by supplies from other countries, and by the time the World War II approached, the company had almost lost all its strength.

A gemstone worn as a pendant always gives better result than a ring. There are six main reasons for that:

1. In a ring, the gemstone which is generally highly expensive, meets natural wear and tear earlier than that in a pendant. Chances of getting scratched or broken is quite natural.
2. A gemstone studded in a pendant that hangs above the naval region of the body always remains pure according to the Indian astrological tenets.
3. A gemstone studded in a ring is more likely to come in contact with urine, excrement and food left-overs which, as result, destroy the consecrated power from the mantras.

Some questions that generally dog ones mind is that wether wearing a gem remove afflictions and diseases from one’s life? Is the practice of wearing gemstone on person a religious process or is it ordained by religions? Or is it only a social habit? Or is it an expression of flaunting one’s riches?

Irony is, the thought process of human afflictions and diseases in Astrology is much profound and modern science will have to traverse long stages to equate that. According to Astrology, reasons behind the human ailments are not considered to be the bacteria alone, but also the effects of the actions in one’s lifetime. Also the sins acquired from the previous lifetime reappear during the present life in form of diseases, chronic wounds or misfortune.

Kohinoor has been known as the most beautiful piece of diamond till date. It is said that Kohinoor always brought death and destruction to its owner. It was owned by Sikh ruler Maharaja Ranjit Singh of India which became the cause of destruction of him, as he was defeated and killed by the British troops in 1849 A.D, and the same year Kohinoor changed its owner once again and this time even crossed the seas to reach the Empress Victoria, to whom the diamond was sent by the British troops in India as a gift. She pieced the diamond and studded it in her crown.