mineral general info

Heliodor

Origin: Volodarsk - Volijn, Zhitomar Oblast, Ukraine
Sample size: 4.8 x 1 x 0.5 cm

Origin: Harris Claim, Wah Wah Range, Beaver County, Utah, U.S.A.

Sample size: 4.4 x 4.1 x 2.6 cm

Aquamarine

Origin: Waigon, Darra Pech, Kunar Province, Afghanistan

Sample size: 6.5 x 4.3 x 4.1 cm

Aquamarine on muscovite

Origin: Skardu Valley, Gilgit Division, Pakistan

Sample size: 6.7 x 5.8 x 5.3 cm

Aquamarine with schorl

Origin: Erongo Mtns., Usakos District, Namibia

Sample size: 6.0 x 2.0 x 1.5 cm

Aquamarine on muscovite

Origin: Nagar, Aliabad, Pakistan

ex. Marty Lewadny Collection

Sample size: 13.3 x 10.4 x 10.4 cm

Heliodor

Origin: Marimbia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
ex. Dr. Hermann Bank Collection (Idar-Oberstein)

Sample size: 23.5 x 2 x 2 cm

Aquamarine on albite

Origin: Shigar, Baltistan, Pakistan

Sample size: 13.9 x 4.7 x 4 cm

Aquamarine/heliodor

Origin: Nyat, Braldu Valley, Baltrstanm Pakistan

Sample size: 8.2 x 5 x 4.9 cm

Emerald on calcite

Origin: Coscuez Mine, Boyaca Dept., Colombia

Sample size: 4.4 x 4 x 3 cm (top), 4.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm (2nd row), 6.7 x 5.2 x 3 cm (bottom)

Emerald

Origin: Muzo Mine, Boyaca Dept., Colombia

Sample size: 3.1 x 1 .7 x 1 cm

Emerald

Origin: Wenshan, Yunnan, China

Sample size: 6.2 x 3.6 x 2.6 cm (top), 8.4 x 7.3 x 2.1 cm (bottom)

Origin: Wolodarsk-Wolynsky, Ukraine

Sample size: 4.0 x 1.1 x 1.0 cm

Emerald in quartz

Origin: Malipo, Yunnan Province, China

Sample size: 14.0 x 10.0 x 4.8 cm

Aquamarine on albite

Origin: Teston, Braldu Valley, Baltistan, Pakistan

Sample size: 11.7 x 10.0 x 5.9 cm

Heliodor

Origin: Adriamena, Majunga Province, Madagascar

Sample size: 7.5 x 4 x 3.8 cm

Heliodor

Origin: Marambaia, Padre Paraiso, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 9 x 1.5 x 1.2 cm

Aquamarine (etched)

Origin: Gilgit, Pakistan

Sample size: 6.9 x 2.5 x 2.4 cm

Red beryl

Origin: Wah Wah Mountains, Utah, U.S.A.

Sample size: 6 x 5.8 x 2 cm (top), 5.5 x 3.8 x 3 cm (2nd row), 4.4 x 4.2 x 1.6 cm (bottom)

Two flattened, hexagonal gem morganite crystals have grown side-by-side, and inside each of them is a sharp, hexagonal phantom ROTATED ON ITS AXIS by 30 degrees or so from the crystallography of the enveloping morganite!

Origin: Pal Alto, Aracui, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 4.8 x 3.4 x 1.7 cm

Scepter beryl with schorl

Origin: Aracuai, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 5.6 x 4.4 x 3.9 cm

Emerald

Origin: Coscuez Mine, Boyaca Dept., Columbia

Sample size: 3.3 x 3 x 2.3 cm (40 grams)

Bi-coloured beryl

Origin: Baha, Braldu Valley, Baltistan, Pakistan

Sample size: 2.6 x 2.2 x 2.2 cm

Aquamarine on quartz

Origin: Gilgit Division, Northern Areas, Pakistan

Ex Marty Lewadny Collection

Sample size: 5.7 x 4.3 x 3.5 cm

Aquamarine with muscovite

Origin: Skardu Road, Gilgit, Pakistan

Sample size: 21.2 x 12.5 x 6.8 cm

Aquamarine on muscovite

Origin: Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan

Sample size: 6.0 x 4.4 x 3.4 cm

Emerald on calcite

Origin: Muzo Mine, Boyaca Dept., Columbia

Sample size: 3.8 x 3.2 x 2.5 cm

Morganite

Origin: Minas Gerais , Brazil

Sample size: 8.3 x 5 x 3.5 cm

Aquamarine

Origin: Nagar, Northern Areas, Pakistan

Sample size: 6.2 x 4.7 x 3.3 cm

Red beryl

Origin: Violet Claims, Wah Wah Mountains, SW Utah, U.S.A.

Sample size: 7.9 x 4.9 x 5.5 cm (top), 4.6 x 2.8 x 2.5 cm (bottom)

Morganite with tourmaline and albite

Origin: Paprok, Kunar Province, Afghanistan

Sample size: 5.6 x 4.9 x 3.5 cm

Aquamarine

Origin: Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Sample size: 3.5 x 1.0 x 0.7 cm

Heliodor

Origin: Erongo Mtns., Usakos District, Namibia

Sample size: 2.5 x 0.9 x 0.8 cm

Aquamarine

Origin: Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 7.6 x 5.1 x 3.9 cm

Beryl on muscovite

Origin: Skardu Road, Gilgit Division, Pakistan

Sample size: 11.0 x 10.0 x 9.0 cm

Emerald with quartz

Origin: Coscuez Mine, Boyaca, Colombia

Sample size: 14.2 x 7.5 x 2.4 cm

Bi-coloured beryl (morganite/aquamarine)

Origin: Baha, Braldu Valley, Baltistan, Pakistan

Sample size: 2.4 x 1.7 x 1.2 cm

Emerald on matrix

Origin: Lao Cai Province, Vietnam

Sample size: 7.4 x 7 x 6.3 cm

Emerald on smoky quartz

Origin: Ellis Mine, Hiddenite, Alexander County,North Carolina, U.S.A.

Ex. Violet Dawson collection

Sample size: 4.5 x 3.1 x 2 cm

Aquamarine

Origin: Ekaterinberg, Ural Mountains, Russia

Ex. Violet Dawson collection

Sample size: 3.4 x 1.3 x .8 cm

Origin: Chivor, Boyaca Dept., Columbia

Sample size: 1.2 x 1 x 0.9 cm

Aquamarine

Origin: Mt. Antero, Colorado, U.S.A.

Sample size: 4.2 x 0.8 x 0.6 cm

Emerald

Origin: Muzo, Columbia

Sample size: 0.9 x 0.4 x 0.4 cm

Red beryl

Origin: Wah Wah Mountains, Beaver Co, Utah, U.S.A.

Sample size: 3 x 2 x 1.8 cm (top), largest 1.2 x 1.0 x 0.8 cm (bottom)

Morganite

Origin: Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sample size: 2.8 x 2.6 x 1.3 cm

Aquamarine on quartz, muscovite and albite

Origin: Skardu Road, Gilgit Division, Pakistan

Sample size: 7.3 x 5.8 x 4.8 cm

Aquamarine

Origin: Shigar, Baltistan, Pakistan

Sample size: 3.5 x 0.9 x 0.7 cm (top), 2.5 x 0.9 x 0.9 cm (bottom)

Emerald

Origin: Muzo, Columbia

Sample size: 1.2 x .3 x .3 cm (top), 1.2 x .4 x .3 cm (bottom)

Origin: Hotling, Jantland, Sweden

Sample size: 5 x 4 x 2.5 cm

Bi-coloured beryl (morganite-aquamarine)
Origin: Baha, Braldu Valley, Baltistan, Pakistan

Sample size: 2.3 x 1.5 x 1.3 cm

Emerald

Origin: Brumado, Bahia, Brazil

Sample size: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.9 cm

Aquamarine

Aquamarine with muscovite

Origin: Chumar Bakhoor, Nagar, Northern Areas, Pakistan

Sample size: 7.5 x 5 x 3.5 cm (top), 2.8 x 2.5 x 4.3 cm (bottom)

Aquamarine

Origin: Gilgit district, Northern Areas, Pakistan

Sample size: 0.7 x 0.8 x 7.4 cm

Aquamarine

Origin: Stak Nala, Gilgit District, Northern Areas, Pakistan

Sample size: 25 x 18 x 38 mm

Pale blue aquamarine on muscovite

Origin: Xue Bao Diang Mountain, Pingwu, Sichuan Province, China

Sample size: 4 x 3 x 1.2 cm

Aquamarine with minor muscovite on albite

Aquamarine with quartz

Origin: Nyet, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan

Sample size: 5.5 x 3 x 4 cm (top), 6 x 5 x 3 cm (bottom)

Aquamarien with quartz on albite matrix with micro spessartine

Origin: Manak mine, Nuristan, Afghanistan

Sample size: 4 x 4 x 4.3 cm

Aquamarine with schorl and muscovite, Ex. Giorgio Spiga

Aquamarine, Ex. KQ Minerals

Origin: Nagar, Pakistan

Sample size: 6 x 3 x 2.5 cm (top), 4.8 x 1.3 x 0.9 cm (bottom)

Aquamarine with albite and muscovite

Origin: Gilgit, Northern Areas, Pakistan

Sample size: 6 x 4 x 3.7 cm

Aquamarine with very dark-green elbaite

Origin: Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil

Sample size: 15 x 15 x 37 mm

8 Beryl on muscovite

Beryl on muscovite

Origin: Xue Bao Diang Mine (Xue Bao Ding Mine), Pingwu, Chengdu area, Sichuan, Southwest Region, China

Sample size: 8.5 x 8.5 x 4.8 cm (top), 5.2 x 3.8 x 3 cm (2nd row), 6.5 x 5 x 4 cm (3rd row), 4.8 x 7 x 3.3 cm (4th row), 7 x 8.3 x 4 cm (5th row), 8 x 5.5 x 7.5 cm (6th row), main crystal measures 4 cm across (7th row), 4.9 x 3.5 x 4 cm (8th row), 15 x 10 x 11 cm (9th row), 10.8 x 9.3 x 4.4 cm (10th row), 11.2 x 4.9 x 8.1 cm (11th row), 7.5 x 9.3 x 7 cm (bottom)

Origin: Volodarsk-Volynskii (Volodars'k-Volyns'kyy; Wolodarsk-Wolynskii), Zitomir Oblast', Ukraine

Sample size: 1.9 x 1.4 x 8.4 cm

Etched pale blue aquamarine on aquamarine

Origin: Medina, Pedra Azul (Fortaleza), Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil

Sample size: 6.6 x 4.3 x 5.4 cm

Aquamarine

Origin: Gilgit, Northern Areas, Pakistan

Sample size: 13 x 9 x 23 mm

Beryl on muscovite

Origin: Xue Bao Diang Mine (Xue Bao Ding Mine), Pingwu, Chengdu area, Sichuan, Southwest Region, China

Sample size: 3.7 x 2.6 x 4.8 cm

Beryl on muscovite

Beryl on muscovite with albite

Beryl on muscovite

Origin: Xue Bao Diang Mine, Pingwu, Chengdu area, Sichuan, Southwest Region, China

Sample size: 7 x 5.5 x 8.5 cm (top), 7.3 x 7 x 4.4 cm (2nd row), 8.8 x 5.2 x 6.3 cm (3rd row), 7.5 x 6.8 x 5.7 cm (bottom)

Emerald

Origin: Boyaca Department, Colombia

Sample size: 13 x 11 x 16 mm

Beryl on muscovite

Origin: Nagar, Hunza Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan

Sample size: 5.7 x 4.7 x 5 cm

Beryl (emerald) on calcite

Origin: Coscuez mine, Muzo, Vasquez-Yacopi Mining District, Boyacá Department, Colombia

Sample size: 7.2 x 5.4 x 4.7 cm

Morganite with albite

Origin: Corrego do Urucum pegmatite, Lavra do Urucum (Lavra do Tim), Galiléia, Governador Valadares, Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Southeast Region, Brazil

Sample size: 5.8 x 3.3 x 5.5 cm

Beryl on muscovite

Origin: Xue Bao Diang Mine (Xue Bao Ding Mine), Pingwu, Chengdu area, Sichuan, Southwest Region, China

Sample size: 9.1 x 6.7 x 5.7 cm

Photo courtesy of:

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

Aquamarine on feldspar matrix with minor schorl

Aquamarine with schorl and quartz on feldspar matrix

Origin: Erongo Mountains, Namibia, Africa

Sample size: 3.2 x 3 x 1 cm (top), 5.2 x 4 x 3 cm (bottom)

Aquamarine, apatite and schorl

Origin: Shigar Valley, Pakistan

Sample size: 3 x 2.5 x 1.7 cm

Etched aquamarine

Origin: Teofilo, Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil, South America

Ex. Dan Balan collection

Sample size: 5 x 3.5 x 3 cm

Aquamarine and scheelite on muscovite

Origin: Xuebaoding Mountain, Ping Wu, Sichuan, China, Asia

Ex. Dan Balan collection

Sample size: 9 x 7 x 3.7 cm

Heliodor

Origin: Zelatoya Vada, Tajikistan

Ex. Keith Hayes collection (KQ Minerals)

Sample size: 4.3 x 1.0 x 0.7 cm

Red beryl on altered rhyolite

Red beryl with topaz

Origin: Harris Claim, Wah Wah Mts., Beaver Co., Utah, Southwest U.S.A.

Sample size: 8.2 x 6 x 3 cm (top), 3.3 x 2.2. x 2 cm (2nd row), 4.1 x 2.1 x 1 cm (3rd row), 6.8 x 5.5 x 3.7 cm (4th row), 5.3 x 3.5 x 3 cm (5th row), 3.5 x 3.5 x 2 cm (6th row), 3 x 2.5 x 2.3 cm (7th row), 5.3 x 5.2 x 3 cm (8th row), 5.7 x 5 x 3.7 cm (9th row), 6.3 x 5.2 x 1.8 cm (bottom)

Red beryl on altered rhyolite

Origin: Harris Claim, Wah Wah Mts., Beaver Co., Utah, Southwest U.S.A.

Sample size: 5.5 x 4.7 x 4.3 cm (top), 5.5 x 4.5 x 2 cm (2nd row), 5.5 x 3.5 x 3 cm (3rd row), 5.2 x 3.3 x 2 cm (4th row), 4.3 x 3 x 2.4 cm (5th row), 2.7 x 2.2 x 1.6 cm (6th row), 3 x 2.2 x 1.5 cm (7th row), 3.1 x 2.7 x 1.5 cm (8th row), 5.5 x 3.5 x 3 cm (9th row), 3.7 x 2.6 x 2.5 cm (bottom)

Red beryl on altered rhyolite

Origin: Harris Claim, Wah Wah Mts., Beaver Co., Utah, Southwest U.S.A.

Sample size: 6.2 x 4 x 2.1 cm (top), 4.5 x 3 x 2.5 cm (2nd row), 3.6 x 3 x 2.5 cm (3rd row), 4.4 x 4 x 3.6 cm (4th row), 5 x 4 x 3 cm (5th row), 6 x 4.7 x 2.8 cm (6th row), 4 x 3.7 x 2.2 cm (7th row), 5.7 x 4 x 3.3 cm (8th row), 3.3 x 2.2 x 1.8 cm (9th row), 10.1 x 5.6 x 4.5 cm (bottom)