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Aquamarine — specimen 0523, photo © NMNHS
Aquamarine — specimen 0523, photo © NMNHS

Aquamarine — specimen 0523

Origin

South Asia
Pakistan
Aquamarine — specimen 0523, locality map
Data

Weight: 1.44 ct; size: 12.70 | 5.11 | 3.90 mm; shape: octagon; colour: very light very strongly bluish green; clarity: eye clean; cut: excellent; treatment: none.
Notes

Very clean specimen; design ‘Octaelongatis 1’, excellent cut by Tan Pen.

Other specimens
Aquamarine — specimen 0245Aquamarine — specimen 0445Aquamarine — specimen 0522Aquamarine — specimen 0423Aquamarine — specimen 0063Aquamarine — specimen 0302Aquamarine — specimen 0424

More information from ‘Classification’

Aquamarine

A variety of beryl. Occurs mainly in granite pegmatites.


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