If you are a fan of gemstone jewelry and have some of these wonderful creations in your personal jewelry collection, you may be wondering how to safely clean them.

Silver jewelry is pretty easy -- you can use a treated polishing cloth or an appropriate chemical liquid cleaner. But gemstones can be harmed using these methods if you aren't careful. 

Firemountaingems.com has created a wonderful gemstone cleaning guide you can use to keep your gemstone gorgeous and shining. Gemstones require different cleaning methods based on their hardness and this chart lists the recommended cleaning methods for many popular stones.

When reading this chart, keep the following in mind. 1) Toughness is a material's resistance to breakage. The combination of hardness and toughness largely defines the durability of a gemstone. 2) A measure of a mineral's hardness and its resistance to scratching, invented by Austrian mineralogist, Friedrich Moh. The scale goes from talc (number 1) being the softest, to diamonds (number 10), being the hardest substance known by man. 

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