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Beryls The Magic of Colours: Aquamarine Emerald Morganite

Beryls come in a variety of colors including green, blue, pink, yellow, and colorless. They belong to the same mineral family despite differences in color. Their color comes from small amounts of elements like iron, chromium, vanadium, manganese, and uranium contained within their crystal structure. Emeralds are green due to chromium and/or vanadium, aquamarines are blue from iron, and morganite is a pink variety caused by manganese. Beryls are popular gemstones valued for their brilliance, hardness, and beautifully saturated colors.

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Beryls The Magic of Colours: Aquamarine Emerald Morganite

Beryls come in a variety of colors including green, blue, pink, yellow, and colorless. They belong to the same mineral family despite differences in color. Their color comes from small amounts of elements like iron, chromium, vanadium, manganese, and uranium contained within their crystal structure. Emeralds are green due to chromium and/or vanadium, aquamarines are blue from iron, and morganite is a pink variety caused by manganese. Beryls are popular gemstones valued for their brilliance, hardness, and beautifully saturated colors.

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Beryls

The magic of colours

Color appeals to our feelings directly. It makes us happy and cheerful, livens us up or calms us down,
and has a magical or liberating effect.
And where is color more lastingly and more beautifully captured than in a gemstone?
In the fascinating world of precious stones, emeralds glow in the fieriest green imaginable.
Aquamarines sparkle in a whole range of blues from the light blue of the sky to the deep blue of the sea.
And the charming pink of morganite puts a spell on women the whole world over.
Yet how many people are aware of the fact that these gems, different as they are, belong to a single family?
Aquamarine, emerald and morganite are all beryls just like golden beryl, yellowish-green heliodor,
colorless cohenite and the rare red beryl.
Whether blue, green, yellow, colorless or pink, their chemical and physical properties essentially correspond;
it is only in their colors that they differ from one another so much.

So where does this diversity come from?


It is an exciting and very ancient story, which began millions of years ago when the appropriate pressure
and temperature conditions formed precious crystals in the centre of the Earth.
Beryls are beryllium-aluminum-silicates.
As pure beryl, they are colourless, but they are able on account of their structure to store various foreign
substances, and it is these which give rise to the various colours, turning a plain, colourless gemstone
into a green, yellow, pink or blue treasure.

Iron colours beryl in the most beautiful sea-blue hues, turning it into aquamarine,
one of our best known and most popular gems.
This gem not only shines in all the colours of water - fine blue shades which can complement almost any skin or
eye colour - ; a slight green shimmer is also one of its typical features.
Aquamarine is the favourite stone of many a creative designer and distinguishes itself by a whole series
of good qualities: even distribution of the colour, inclusions which hardly spoil the effect at all,
good hardness and a wonderful shine.

The emerald is closely related to the aquamarine. This most valuable of all the beryls is given the most beautiful,
intense and glowing green imaginable, namely emerald green, by chrome and/or vanadium.
Small crystal inclusions, cracks or fissures are not merely tolerated in this precious gemstone;
they are actually regarded as features of its identity. Connoisseurs refer to them affectionately as the jardin (garden)

Beryl behaves quite differently when there is manganese involved.


This element gives it a special feminine pink, turning it into morganite, without doubt the next best known representa
group after the classics, emerald and aquamarine.
Formerly, it was known rather plainly as pink beryl. It has only been called morganite since the year 1911, having b
named in honour of the New York finance expert and gemstone collector John Pierpont Morgan.
This gemstone loves generosity, since it is only from a certain size upwards that the beauty of its colour,
mostly ranging from a tender pink to a pale violet, is shown to its full advantage.

Small traces of iron, and a natural aura which emanates from minerals containing uranium, are sufficient to give a co
tone - the typical colour of the golden beryl. This gem has practically the same good qualities as its light blue cousin
Indeed, as a rule it is found in the same kind of deposit. Golden beryl holds a fascination with its fine spectrum of ye
to a warm golden colour. Unlike the emerald, however, it seldom has inclusions.

Iron and uranium together are also responsible for the fresh, stimulating greenish yellow of another beryl variety, the
The name goes with the colour very well, being derived from the Greek helios (sun) and doron (gift). So heliodor is a

Now and again, beryl is found which lacks these colouring substances. In such cases it simply remains a mere colo
it is more often referred to as goshenite after the place where it was originally found, Goshen, in Massachusetts.
Colourless beryl is rare, and has little significance as a gemstone. It does, however, have some historical importanc
spectacles. Even in ancient times, beryl was used to make glasses.

Originally, the name beryl came from India. It was derived from the Sanskrit word veruliyam, an old term for the ge
from which the Greek word beryllos later developed.
ful gemstone family to the full.

Beryls are popular gems, not only on account of their magnificent colours. Their appeal also lies in their high
brilliance and qualities such as their hardness (7.5 to 8), which makes them admirably well suited for use in
jewellery. The typical hexagonal beryl crystals with their often vertically striated surfaces are mainly found in the
gemstone deposits of South America and those of Central and West Africa. However, they also occur on
Madagascar, in Russia and the Ukraine, and in the USA. The skilled hands of gemstone cutters turn them into a
multitude of many-faceted shapes. In particular, beryls are well suited to rectangular or square step cuts, since it
takes a clear design to bring out the transparent beauty of this colour

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