Aquamarine is a beautiful blue to blue/green colored variety of the mineral Beryl. Beryl is a beryllium aluminum silicate (Be3Al2(Si6O18)) that occurs in pegmatite formations over a wide range of geography. The color of the mineral specimen determines the gem name. Probably the most famous of the beryl gemstones is the green variety with chrome […]
In the beginning, before modern gemology, there were only four gemstones and they were named for their color. White (clear) were diamonds, red were rubies, blue were sapphires and green were emeralds. Then man became a little more educated and he found that all stones of the same color were not the same crystal shape […]
