100+ Carats Mixed Gems Natural Loose Gemstones | 100% Natural Loose Gemstones bulk| Grade A+ (natural inclusions) |Hand Cut and Polished | 40-60 pieces Gemstone Wholesale Lot – by GM GemMartUSA (MX-60001)

I am pleasantly surprised at the quality of this parcel. They are DEFINITELY real stones. The bulk of them are cut well with excellent sparkle. There are 1 or 2 poorly cut and some inclusions, but most are eye clean. Most are fairly small, but I'm just thrilled they're real after receiving synthetic stones sold as natural from another seller.I ordered the 100ct parcel. It came packed so well I could barely get the gems out of the packaging (that's actually a good thing). Unlike many of the reviews with the tiny gem jars, my gems came in a nice GemMart USA gift bag; inside that bag was a plastic bag with a nice silver painted jewelry bag inside. Inside the jewelry bag were 2 individually packaged 50ct (approx) parcels which were in turn packed in small plastic bags taped shut (!!!! I couldn't get the tape off, had to carefully cut them open) with tiny ziploc bags inside them, then with the actual gems in the ziploc baggies. There was no chance of any of the stones being lost or broken during shipment.Suprisingly, or maybe not so, each of the two 50ct parcels (totalling 100.2ct) are almost identical in content (see photos). Both contain Swiss blue topaz, prasiolite (purple amythest heated to green), amythest, smokey quartz, lemon quartz, garnet, peridot, citrine, what appears to be carnelian, what appears to be green onyx, and a couple unknown stones that may be phrenite (I'll have to test them), and 1 stone each I can't even being to guess at (yaaaay! I get to pull out my testing tools!). There are some decent sized stones, but the bulk are tiny; 3.5mm round & 3 x 6mm marquise cut. It will give me an opportunity to work on pave and tiny settings. I'm sure I'll be able to use them for something!Overall, I'm just thrilled with the parcel and will certainly buy again in the future!UPDATE: All stones are accounted for. After testing, what I thought was phrenite was merely heavily rutilated lemon quartz. The other stone was a very pale smokey quartz.

A nice variety of small to medium mixed stones. Came with authentication.

Real and not glass! A lot of them are super tiny though.

We bought these to practice stone setting with a real variety of stones and shapes. For that they are okay. Initially we were pretty pleased with the stones. We tested them with a variety of tools and they are what they say they are. Color was decent. After receiving some other stone lots including this stores Etsy "AA Grade" lot we were a bit less pleased. Overall for this "A+ Grade" lot I'd say 1/3 were unusable or mediocre. Either chipped, internally cracked, broken stones or just badly cut. Good for practice or decoration but not good enough to sell. Of the remaining 1/3 were okay and suitable for smaller settings like rings while the last 1/3 were nice quality good enough as center pieces for large rings or pendants. Their more expensive Etsy lots had more usable stones but also a higher price point that washed out the cost per stone to be similar. Competitor lots had even more usable stones but were a bit lighter in color for what we got there with a similar price point.That said 2/3 of the lot being usable in our opinion still leaves with stones that cost you less than a buck each for material costs if you are setting and selling your work. That's a solid price point for our markets. Their AA lot cost more and had a few more more usable pieces. Average stone price average is about the same if you go that route. Of the lots we got the bad stones had the highest feeling of this was a stone cutters first time having a go at it. The other lots certainly had stones like that but less overall.We just combined the like stones with the other lots. These added some deeper colored stones to our mix. Not a bad purchase and an inexpensive way to start locating suppliers and learning what to look for. We will end up using a different supplier moving forward but these are a way to get going. If you aren't setting stones or selling and just want some shiny gems the majority of these will fit that bill. Just keep in mind these are jewelry gemstones so will range from ~3mm to maybe 10mm. They are smaller than you think.*Edit* We tested the stones with a variety of methods, RI, SG, thermal value, polariscope and they all test as real. No glass that we found. I will say based on a few of the comments the stones are the 10 common stones listed in the description. There were no surprises there. Basically the common semiprecious varieties that all the various gem lot sellers offer.

The media could not be loaded. I love gems. I love all sorts of gemstones.. I have loved them since I can remember..These are are real gemstones - not just found out back in the dirt all nasty :). No. These are beautiful. And WAY more than they look when you open the container in which they are. I put pictures showing exactly what i got when I opened them.About the pics:* I clearly got 3 orders* The cotton is THICK, taking up most of the container, obviously put in to keep them from moving around in transit - risking damage.* The cotton also makes it seem there are fewer stones... the first one full of gems after taking the cotton out shows how many there are. A lot.* That last picture shows a container that literally POPPED open with the amount of beautiful gems due to the pressure of being so many and closed with the protective cotton/lid. It actually startled me.* I set up everything that came in - including these BEAUTIFUL little gold rose satches. NICE touch.* Also most impressive to me was that they had been cleared by GIA. I see SSOOOOO many of these kind of things okayed by the "GPA" or the "GNA" or should just mark them "G BS A" 😊 The reason that gem companies, try to show you something with a "G *something* A" is because they can't say "GIA".The Gemological Institute of America is the one you want saying your stuff is good. And that they have it means I'm going to be coming back... a LOT.I actually have more in my cart right now. 😁And your prices make it to where someone like me can have what I love.I love the gems. LOVE them. And I do believe I've just found where I'll be getting them from now on. 😊Thank you. Thank you for the coolness of you.