Is this the ring?

mara · a grateful fan

RE: Is this the ring?

Oom · Soon to be retired blabbermouth

Wow............I didn't even know there was a green or chartreuse sapphire....which I should have cuz sapphire is my birthstone!

I guess we'll never really know what the stone is but I sure do love the ring....Nic wears some of the most interesting jewelry I've ever seen a man wear. I can so easily see him wearing that big amber ring I posted earlier in this thread, can't you?

Lula · Beguiled at Heart and Weird non stop

Totally!

And I'd be surprised if Nic didn't have any. However....

...Today I can't help thinking it has to be a gem quality stone!
and I agree it doesn't look like emerald.... So maybe it's green or 'chartreuse' sapphire.......,

http://www.mineralminers.com/html/sgrgems.stm

-- Edited by Lula on Tuesday 31st of March 2009 06:05:47 AM

Oom · Soon to be retired blabbermouth

EXACTLY my thinking as well! It's the perfect stone for the father of Superman to wear, isn't it? :)

Lula · Beguiled at Heart and Weird non stop

It's probably the nearest thing you can get to KRYPTONITE !!!

That's a gorgeous piece by the way Oom!

Oom · Soon to be retired blabbermouth

You know what.....after seeing this picture, I'm betting it IS Moldavite! Which is supposed to be as you said......an extraterrestrial stone. And what I find cool is that I have actually been looking for a piece of Moldavite and have been in touch with two crystal dealers who are trying to find me just the right piece! Very cool........BTW Lula....great info there from you as well. It's amazing what googling can do.....LOL!

This is MOLDAVITE...

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-- Edited by Oom on Monday 30th of March 2009 05:31:15 PM

Lula · Beguiled at Heart and Weird non stop

Wow, great info there Oom!

now you mention it, green zincite does have that clarity and pale but dark green shade...I only have 3 tiny pieces of zincite, green, orange and blue but they are incredibly powerful....and green tourmaline, which I love. But that's quite striated...might come up like that polished though...green garnet is another one that never crossed my mind!

Garnet is good for balancing and aligning all the chakras, it's quite energizing in red, but in green probably a more balancing, tranquil and calming stone...and all green stones are said to resonate with the heart chakra (energy centre), are healing stones and good for developing love and compassion....

But the one that leapt out at me is Moldavite! I know moldavite as a much more vivid green, but it does come in olive and different shades.....
of course! why didn't this come to mind!!!

this has to be it!

It would be so poignant would it not, being an extra terrestrial crystal?! Extremely high vibration, can literally zoom you off to outerspace!

http://en.wikipedia.org/moldavite

-- Edited by Lula on Monday 30th of March 2009 05:16:35 PM

Oom · Soon to be retired blabbermouth

Now for the green garnets. Green garnets?! Is there really such a thing? Indeed there is! In fact, several green varieties are known. First there is 'grossularite', created by Nature in many fine tones of yellow, green and brown and esteemed for its many fine interim hues and earth colours. Here too, there was a spectacular find: in the final year of the 20th century, extensive grossularite deposits were discovered in Mali. These Mali garnets captivate us with their great brilliance. Even the brown, which is otherwise not terribly popular, seems vivid and natural, and goes particularly well with ethnologically inspired trends.

Probably the best known green garnet is the tsavorite or tsavolite, which also belongs to the grossularite group. Tiffany's in New York gave this name to the previous emerald-green stone which was discovered in 1967 by a British geologist, Campbell R. Bridges, in the north-east of Tanzania - after the place where the discovery was made, near the Tsavo National Park with its wealth of game. The green of the tsavorite runs from vivid and light to deep and velvety and, like all garnets, it has particularly good brilliance.

The star of green garnets is the rare demantoid, a gemstone for connoisseurs and gemstone lovers. Its brilliance is positively tremendous, even greater than that of the diamond. Russia's star jeweller Carl Fabergé loved the brilliant green garnet from the Urals more than anything else, and used it in his creations. Meanwhile, the demantoid is no longer quite as scarce in the gemstone trade, thanks to some new finds in Namibia. Demantoids from Namibia are of good colour and brilliance, but they lack one tiny feature: the so-called 'horse-tail inclusions'. These fine, bushy inclusions are the unmistakable, typical feature by which a Russian demantoid is recognised.
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Oom · Soon to be retired blabbermouth

I don't know what it is either. It sure doesn't look like an emerald tho cuz emeralds are such a dark, rich green and this has hints of yellow or even brownish tones. BTW........I'm loving that green amber ring as well. Gawd....it is GORGEOUS!

If it is any of the three stones I posted, I would say it has to be the Peridot since peridot is an olive green type stone. I found this description of Peridot. Note how this article says that Moldavite can be green. Also, this blurb says that there is a Green Garnet. Since Garnet is the birthstone of a baby born in January, maybe that is what it is???

Peridot (pronounced pair-a-doe) is the gem variety of olivine. Olivine, which is actually not an official mineral, is composed of two minerals: fayalite and forsterite.

Peridot is perhaps derived from the French word peritot which means unclear, probably due to the inclusions and cloudy nature of large stones. It could also be named from the Arabic word faridat which means gem. In either case, peridot has been mined as a gemstone for an estimated four thousand years or better, and is mentioned in the Bible under the Hebrew name of pitdah. Peridot gems along with other gems were probably used in the fabled Breastplates of the Jewish High Priest, artifacts that have never been found. The Greeks and Romans referred to peridot as topazion and topazius respectively and this name was later given to topaz, to end the confusion with the two gems. Historical legend has it that peridot was the favorite gemstone of Cleopatra. Pliny wrote about the green stone from Zagbargad Island in 1500 B.C.. Even until recently have jewelers used the term "chrysolite" (latin for golden stone) in referring to peridot gems for some reason. This term has also been used to refer to other gemstones, of a more golden color.

Throughout time, peridot has been confused with many other gemstones, even emerald. Many "emeralds" of royal treasures have turned out to be peridots! And although peridot is distinctly a different shade of green, many jewelers refer to peridot as "evening emerald".

Emerald is a dark green as opposed to a yellow green and always contains inclusions. Other green gemstones confused with peridot include apatite (which is much softer); green garnets (have no double refraction), green tourmaline and green sinhalite (both of which are strongly pleochroic), moldavites (no double refraction) and green zircon (significantly heavier). All of these gemstones rarely have as nice a yellow component to their green color as does most peridot, but darker green peridot can be confusing when good crystal form is not discernible.

Peridot is a beautiful gemstone in its own right and is widely popular. Its popularity is said to be increasing yearly and with new finds in Pakistan producing exceptionally well crystallized specimens, peridot can be fun to collect for years to come.

-- Edited by Oom on Monday 30th of March 2009 04:32:08 PM

Lula · Beguiled at Heart and Weird non stop

Oh I'm loving that amber ring...
Now you've got these pics up Oom, Nic's ring doesn't look like any of them!

...you can get different shades of the green apatite though, more olivey and less lime green!

And peridot can come up paler....ok, now I don't think its green amber, Nic's ring is far too gemmy and faceted looking.

Hmm maybe it's a green beryl that can be this paler olive green too..

Whatever it is. It's a gorgeous ring, with a lovely shape and setting!

This isn't the one he's wearing in the sorcerer's costume though?

Oom · Soon to be retired blabbermouth

Okay......here is the pic of Nic's ring and then a green apatite ring, a peridot ring and finally a green amber ring. Which one looks the closest to Nic's ring?

-- Edited by Oom on Monday 30th of March 2009 03:22:12 PM

Oom · Soon to be retired blabbermouth

Um....this is the ring Nic has been wearing in interviews for KNOWING so it's a personal ring, I would guess.

Personally I love the stone Amber as it is from the Baltic which is where my family originated from. One day I'll try to buy myself a special piece. BTW, I'm not familiar with green amber. I hope you one day get your green amber dear Lula! Twood be very cool!

Lula · Beguiled at Heart and Weird non stop

Ooh nice...!
I'm not sure if that's the one I saw in the pic, it looked bigger!

It must be a magic ring though if the sorceror is wearing it!

Hmmm...first thoughts are because it has that olive green colour rather than vivid green, its Peridot or Green Amber! If it's the latter I'm highly jealous, my Polish friend was going to acquire a genuine polish green amber ring for me(in silver because I prefer it to gold) but the ring sizes were all too big!

Or it could be green Apatite Oom.........?

I guess all stones are alchemical by nature!

Oom · Soon to be retired blabbermouth

What kind of stone do you think this is? I know we have some crystal lovers on this site!

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-- Edited by Oom on Monday 30th of March 2009 02:19:03 PM