Pearls are found in the soft tissue of living mollusks, a contrast to most other gemstones that are dug up from deep within the earth. The curative power and the astrological power are quite ...

a gleaming emerald stone. The pièce de rèsistance, though, is the giant elephant pendant that transforms into a brooch. “It felt natural,” Scheufele says, and not just for etymological reasons.

Experts describe the emerald as one of the largest and purest ever ...