Beryl
Origin: Thuong Xuan district, Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam
Sample size: 3 x 4 x 34 mm
Origin: Stewart mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California, U.S.A.
Ex. Marvin Pearce coll.
Sample size: 6 x 6 x 4.5 cm
Red beryl
Origin: Violet Claim, Wah Wah Mountains, Juab County, Utah, U.S.A.
Ex. Marvin Pearce coll.
Sample size: 6.5 x 4.5 x 4.5 cm
This is the variety of beryl known as "rosterite" or "vorobyevite". This name
is applied to cesium-rich beryls, colorless or slightly pinkish in colour,
like the example above.
Origin: Gorum-Dara, SW Pamir Region, Tajikistan
Ex. Marvin Pearce coll.
Sample size: 20 x 20 x 31 mm
Emerald
Origin: Crabtree mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Ex. Marvin Pearce coll.
Sample size: 6.5 x 6 x 2 cm
Specimen consisting of a gemmy pale blue terminated aquamarine crystal
measuring 22 mm in length perched aesthetically upon a snow white matrix of
crystallized
albite. There are numerous small red
spessartine crystals scattered about this
albite
matrix as well.
Origin: Shengus (Shingus), Gilgit district, Northern Areas, Pakistan
Ex. Tom Dwyer coll.
Sample size: 6.5 x 3.5 x 5 cm
Ex. Tom Dwyer coll.,
Aquamarine
Heliodor
Origin: Darrah Pech, Kunar Province, Afghanistan
Sample size: 25 x 15 x 30 mm (top/2nd row), 42 mm in height
(bottom)
Origin: Xue Bao Diang Mountain, 30 km north of Pingwu, Sichuan Province, China
Sample size: 5 x 4 x 8 cm
Bicoloured beryl (morganite/aquamarine)
Origin: Southwest Buspar Peak, Braidu Valley, Baltistan, Pakistan
Sample size: 8.0 x 5.0 x 3.3 cm
Aquamarine
Origin: Jaqueto Mine, Bahia, Brazil
Ex. Francis and Pat Benjamin collection
Sample size: 6.7 x 1.3 x 1.3 cm
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