Precious vs. Semi-Precious Gemstone Beads

The best way to beautify the look of your attire is complementing it with an ornament. Attaching charming pieces of mineral crystals or gemstones will amplify the beauty of your ornaments even more. Each bead is unique in its own way and natural stone beads are really helpful in decorating your ornaments.

But not only these stones look beautiful, they are of great value as well. We have researched about determining the value of these precious gemstones and compiled it together in an article to share the same with you.

• Rarity: The higher the uncommonness, the higher the value. But this criteria for determining the value of gemstones is highly variable. As soon as high deposits of a particular precious gemstone are found in any part of the world, it is considered to be a semi-precious stone.

• Abundance: The major basis of classifying gemstones in the two categories of precious and semi-precious gemstones is abundance. Precious gemstones are particularly those gemstones that are rare in the world. And the gemstones with higher availability are called semi-precious gemstones.

• Beauty: Gemstone beads which are gorgeous will always be priced higher. But to make a gem valuable, the rarity is also to be taken into consideration along with its beauty. All the natural gemstone beads are beautiful and everybody has a different perspective on what looks beautiful to them, so just taking beauty into consideration won’t be enough.

• Appeal: Precious stones are more appealing because of the special and distinct qualities that they have. This factor of appeal is an important factor while determining the value of a gemstone. Let’s take Diamonds for example. It is arguably the most precious gemstone and is valued so high because of its exotic beauty, rarity and toughness.

Also Read: What Does Different Colour Of Gemstones Signifies?

Talking about semi-precious stones and precious gemstones, there are no specific guidelines in the gemstone world about the bases which they regard while distinguishing gemstones into the two categories. But normally it is seen that the semi precious beads don’t have significant values comparatively to the precious ones.

If you’re looking to purchase gemstones with the intention of investment, we would not recommend you to do this. Agreed that they are highly valuable, but when looking at things from the economic point of view, their prices vary almost parallel to the rates of inflation and deflation. In simple words, their actual values will remain the same over time.

But we’re not saying you should not invest, you can invest but only with the intention to store wealth for the times of economic fluctuations. Gemstone beads are not the investment you should expect a high return from.

Now you are aware of the differences in the two main categories of gemstones. So, the next time when you buy gemstone beads, buy them to enjoy their beauty and not for investing.