A Brief Guide to Learn About Cultured Saltwater Pearls

By Gerald Gilbert 5 years ago

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Cultured saltwater pearls are regarded as one of the most valuable varieties of any conventional June birthstone. These pearls are very rare to be found. Where one freshwater mussel forms around thirty freshwater pearls, saltwater pearls only form one.

This makes them more expensive than other varieties of pearls. If you are looking to buy one, then check out this guide. Here, you will get all the important information related to its cultivation, type and characteristics about these pearls.

Way of obtaining saltwater pearls

To gather saltwater pearls, divers collect the mollusks and eliminate the organic gems present inside it. An irritant caught up inside the oyster stimulates the secretion of nacre and leads to the formation of a pearl.

Colors

Saltwater pearls are available in several different colors to choose from. These are creamy white, rose, white with greenish shade, yellow, silvery white, black, gray, black with metallic gray hue, green, bronze, and blue.

Characteristics of Saltwater Pearls obtained from different sources

  • Persian Gulf Pearls comes in rose or creamy white colors. They have a specific gravity of 2.68-2.74.
  • Gulf of Manaar Pearls comes in pale or creamy white color with stylish overtones of green, violet and blue. They have a specific gravity of 2.68-2.74.
  • Australian Pearls: comes in a silvery white and yellow color. They have a specific gravity of 2.67-2.78.
  • South Sea Pearls are mostly white in color but also available in gray, black, and yellow color.
  • Japanese Pearls come in white color with a little greenish shade. They have a specific gravity of 2.66-2.76.
  • Venezuelan Pearls: Colors of these pearls would vary from white, black and bronze. They have a specific gravity of 2.65-2.75.
  • Akoya pearls are grown in China and Japan. They have a size of 5 mm to 11 mm.
  • South Sea Pearls are larger in size with size ranging between 8 millimeters to 20 millimeters in diameter.
  • Tahitian Pearls range from 8 millimeters to 13 millimeters in size.

Conclusion  

The above information must have enhanced your knowledge about saltwater pearls. This would in turn help you make the right selection.