Beryl

  
Heliodor
Origin: Wolodarsk-Wolynskiy, Ukraine
Sample size: 9 x 3 x 3 cm
 
Origin: Murzinka, Urals, Russia
Sample size: 7 x 4 x 3 cm
 
  
Heliodor
  
Green and bluish beryl
Origin: Padre Paraiso Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: 11 x 1.5 x 1.25 cm (top), 12.25 x 1.75 x 1.3 cm (bottom)
 
  
  
Morganite on albite with lithiophilite
Origin: White Queen Mine, San Diego County, California, U.S.A.
Sample size: 10 x 9 x 6 cm
 
  
Emerald and pyrite on calcite
  
Origin: Muzo Mine, Boyaca Dept., Columbia, U.S.A.
Sample size: 8.5 x 8 x 6cm (top), 1.3 x 1 x 0.75 cm (bottom)
 
  
  
Emerald on calcite twin
  
  
Emerald on calcite
     
 
  
Origin: Coscuez Mine, Boyaca Dept., Columbia, U.S.A.
Sample size: 2.7 x 2 x 1 cm (top/2nd row), 3.2 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm (3rd/4th row ), 2.5 x 1.3 x 1 cm (5th row), 1.4 x 0.5 x 0.4 cm (bottom left), 1.4 x 0.6 x 0.5 cm (bottom right)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
  
Aquamarine on muscovite
Origin: Xue Bao Diang Mine (Xue Bao Ding Mine), Pingwu, Chengdu area, Sichuan, Southwest Region, China
Sample size: main crystal measures 4 cm across
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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