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This gemstone is a blue variety of beryl, which is particularly fancied by those of noble blood. Princess Diana is among them.

This stone is a real treasure for it can relieve symptoms of those suffering from hangover or alcohol intoxication.

A stone whose price never ceases to amaze is a true sensation of the last century. This treasure is listed in the Guinness Book of Records. Its name even relates to the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Collectors all across the globe are willingly paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for some samples of this stone. And the fact the samples they buy may easily lose their attractiveness does not seem to stop them.

While this stone can help in curing cancer or with recovery from a heart stroke, it can, on the opposite, prevent a person from resisting the mildest diseases.

This dull and rather mediocre looking stone does not fade with time but instead keeps getting prettier.

Many religions suggest that hell is made of this stone. To be fair, its natural deposits often look as if they were the gates to hell. No wonder then the mineral was mentioned even in the Bible.

The beauty of this stone killed dozens of scientists. Everyone who attempted to find out what it was made of died painfully.

For many centuries, ladies had been using this stone to improve their looks. The price they paid was, however, extraordinarily high - it was their own lives!

Items made of this stone are a real treasure of Russia. One of the stone’s most amazing features is that anyone can carve a picture or statue of it with a standard kitchen knife. But to do that… one would have to move to Siberia and spend the rest of their lives learning the basics of craftsmanship.