Posts Tagged ‘peridot birthstone’

Birthstone Jewelry - August the Peridot

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Peridot is the modern birthstone for August, and as well as being used in August birthstone jewelry is the precious stone selected to celebrate the sixteenth wedding anniversary. This particular gem is a variety of olivine which is a blend of 2 minerals, forsterite and foylite. It is still quite doubtful where the word peridot [...]

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