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Obtained at Munich 2022 Group of Beryl crystals (emerald variety) with very sharp crystal forms, good terminations, transparent, with good luster and an intense color, on matrix.
La Pita mining district, Municipio Maripí, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department Colombia (2022)
Specimen size: 3.7 × 2.6 × 2.6 cm = 1.46” × 1.02” × 1.02”

MMZ26AP3: Beryl (variety emerald)

Obtained at Munich 2022 Beryl crystals (emerald variety) with very sharp crystal forms and very marked parallel growth, with good terminations, transparent, great luster and a very vivid, deep and uniform color.
La Pita mining district, Municipio Maripí, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department Colombia (2022)
Specimen size: 1.7 × 0.7 × 0.7 cm = 0.67” × 0.28” × 0.28”

TFL46AO8: Beryl (variety emerald)

Short prismatic crystal with a flat pinacoidal termination, finely beveled by the faces of a pyramid, between transparent and translucent. With inclusions, good luster and an intense green color.
Colombia
Specimen size: 2.3 × 1.9 × 2.3 cm = 0.91” × 0.75” × 0.91”

EFG26AN5: Beryl (variety emerald)

Beryl crystal (emerald variety) of good size, with well defined faces and edges and some minimal scratches on the upper termination. The crystal is shiny, translucent with transparent areas and of very intense color.
La Pita mining district, Municipio Maripí, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department Colombia
Specimen size: 3.3 × 2.3 × 1.9 cm = 1.30” × 0.91” × 0.75”

TQ66AF2: Beryl (variety emerald)

Parallel growth of two crystals with excellent terminal faces, a dominant pinacoid and small pyramidal faces. Both crystals are completely clear (gem quality) and have an extraordinary luster and color.
Chivor mining district, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department Colombia
Specimen size: 1.4 × 0.6 × 0.6 cm = 0.55” × 0.24” × 0.24”

MLX47AP3: Beryl (variety emerald)

Obtained at Munich 2022 Parallel growths of prismatic crystals of Beryl (emerald variety), doubly terminated, between transparent and translucent, with a very uniform green color, with three of the crystals clearly dominant. A gem quality floater sourced from the world's classic locality for the species, Muzo in Colombia. The color of the emerald is caused by chromophores like trivalent chromium or vanadium.
Muzo mining district, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department Colombia (2022)
Specimen size: 2.5 × 2 × 1.1 cm = 0.98” × 0.79” × 0.43”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 0.8 cm = 0.67” × 0.31”

TC22800TGS: Beryl (variety emerald)

Group of very sharp Beryl crystals (emerald variety), transparent, very lustrous, gem quality, and with a more intense and uniform green color than usual, not only in the La Pita area but in any other deposit. Very high quality.
La Pita mining district, Municipio Maripí, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department Colombia
Specimen size: 2 × 1.8 × 1.3 cm = 0.79” × 0.71” × 0.51”

MA87AJ1: Beryl (variety emerald)

Doubly terminated crystal with two different terminations, one of them polycrystalline, with pyramidal faces, and the opposite flat and slightly rough. The crystal is very transparent and bright, has an excellent color of the best quality for the locality.
Jos Plateau, Ropp District, Plateau State Nigeria
Specimen size: 5.7 × 1.2 × 0.8 cm = 2.24” × 0.47” × 0.31”

TG68AI3: Beryl (variety emerald)

Group of crystals with excellent terminations consisting of a dominant pinacoid and small pyramidal faces. The crystals are clear (gem quality) and have extraordinary luster and color.
La Pita mining district, Municipio Maripí, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department Colombia
Specimen size: 2 × 1.7 × 1.3 cm = 0.79” × 0.67” × 0.51”

D53R: Beryl (variety emerald)

It is not very well know but in the northwest of Spain, in the countryside, it is possible to find some reasonable Emeralds (opaque of course) such as this representative sample.
Emerald Deposit, A Franqueira, A Cañiza, Comarca Paradanta, Pontevedra, Galicia / Galiza Spain
Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.5 cm = 1.14” × 0.98”

SM150NB: Beryl (variety emerald)

Translucent prismatic crystal, of an intense green color, with small scaly coatings of Phlogopite and better transparency than usual in specimens from this deposit.
Emerald Deposit, A Franqueira, A Cañiza, Comarca Paradanta, Pontevedra, Galicia / Galiza Spain (±1985)
Specimen size: 4.8 × 2.5 × 1.9 cm cm = 1.89” × 0.98” × 0.75”

TS16L2: Beryl (variety emerald)

Miniature of prismatic crystals, two of them dominant, with perfect terminations on top, good transparency and intense green color, slightly zoned perpendicular to main axis. On the main crystal top termination we can see something similar to dissolution structures and inside the crystal some carbon inclusions. A luminous specimen.
La Pita mining district, Municipio Maripí, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department Colombia (01/2008)
Specimen size: 1.1 × 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.43” × 0.28” × 0.24”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.5 cm = 0.43” × 0.20”

TE90D6: Beryl (variety emerald) doubly terminated

This extraordinary specimen brings together all the features that any collector would dream of in an Emerald: perfection, intense color, transparency, doubly terminated, a large crystal, and on matrix. The matrix of a small amount of Pyrite on Calcite has a form, size and general look that sets the fabulous crystal off nicely. So in summary as good as the photos suggest.
La Pita mining district, Municipio Maripí, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department Colombia
Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.8 × 1.8 cm = 2.05” × 1.50” × 0.71”

MV51Y6: Beryl (variety emerald) on Albite

Sharp crystals with very well-defined faces and edges, one of them clearly dominant, with an excellent termination that shows the pinacoid and pyramidal faces. The emerald crystals are on a rocky matrix with small laminar Albite crystals and are transparent, very bright, and have an intense, deep, and uniform color. The specimen comes from a classic Colombian hydrothermal deposit formed in black shales and carbonate veins rich in organic material, where beryllium-bearing fluids interacted with chromium from the surrounding rocks, giving rise to the intense green color of the emeralds.
Chivor mining district, Municipio Chivor, Eastern Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department Colombia (2012)
Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.3 × 1.1 cm = 1.34” × 0.91” × 0.43”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.63” × 0.16”

MLF91AP3: Beryl (variety emerald) on Calcite

Obtained at Munich 2022 Two Beryl crystals (emerald variety) on matrix, with very sharp crystal forms and good terminations, transparent, with great luster and a very deep and uniform vivid color.
La Pita mining district, Municipio Maripí, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department Colombia (2022)
Specimen size: 2.6 × 2 × 1.6 cm = 1.02” × 0.79” × 0.63”

MLF46AP3: Beryl (variety emerald) on Calcite

Obtained at Munich 2022 Beryl crystal (emerald variety) isolated on matrix, with very sharp crystal forms and good terminations in which, apart from the dominant pinacoid, pyramidal faces are present too. This transparent and very lustrous crystal exhibits a very vivid, deep and uniform color.
Muzo mining district, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department Colombia (2022)
Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.5 × 1.8 cm = 1.34” × 0.98” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.5 cm = 0.20” × 0.20”

MFF96AP3: Beryl (variety emerald) on Calcite

Obtained at Munich 2022 Beryl crystal (emerald variety) isolated on matrix, with the Calcite crystals that are typical of the locality, with very sharp crystal forms and good terminations in which, apart from the dominant pinacoid, pyramidal faces appear too. The crystal, transparent and very lustrous, shows a very vivid, deep and uniform color.
La Pita mining district, Municipio Maripí, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department Colombia (2022)
Specimen size: 2.9 × 2.3 × 1.5 cm = 1.14” × 0.91” × 0.59”

MLA27AP3: Beryl (variety emerald) on Calcite

Obtained at Munich 2022 Beryl crystal (emerald variety) isolated on matrix, with the Calcite crystals that are typical of the locality, with very sharp crystal forms and good terminations in which, apart from the dominant pinacoid, pyramidal faces appear too. The crystal, transparent and very lustrous, shows a very vivid, deep and uniform color.
Muzo mining district, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department Colombia (2022)
Specimen size: 5.6 × 3 × 3.9 cm = 2.20” × 1.18” × 1.54”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 0.4 cm = 0.63” × 0.16”

TA96E4: Beryl (variety emerald) on Calcite

Very elegant with such transparent crystals. The main crystal is doubly terminated and has a good accompaniment of other smaller ones. They are all nicely positioned on the matrix of Calcite crystals. A clean specimen.
La Pita mining district, Municipio Maripí, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department Colombia (11/2003)
Specimen size: 5 × 4.5 × 2 cm = 1.97” × 1.77” × 0.79”

DX99Q8: Beryl (variety emerald) on Calcite

Sharp Emerald crystal, completely transparent, bright and with a deep and uniform color. Its termination is more complex than usual, due to the presence of the dominant face of a pinacoid and the faces of two pyramids, one of them bevels the edge between the prism and the pinacoid and the other bevels the corners showing triangular forms. It is on a matrix with a rhombohedral crystal of Calcite.
The sample is from the J.S. White collection, whose label we’ll send to the buyer. A definitive specimen.
The photo of this Emerald was published in the magazine ‘Le Règne Minéral’ number 98, on its front cover and on page 43. Also in the book 'Émeraudes, tout un monde!'
La Pita mining district, Municipio Maripí, Western Emerald Belt, Boyacá Department Colombia (12/2006)
Specimen size: 3.3 × 3.1 × 3 cm = 1.30” × 1.22” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.9 cm = 0.39” × 0.35”

MB68I5: Beryl (variety emerald) replacing fossil

Fossilization on emerald, in this case a Gastropod, is very, very, rare. On the surface of he fossil, with the recrystallization of emerald there are also small but easily distinguishable crystals of Pyrite.
Gachalá mining district, Matecaña Mine, Municipio Gachalá, Eastern Emerald Belt, Cundinamarca Department Colombia (03/2006)
Specimen size: 1.3 × 1.1 × 0.9 cm = 0.51” × 0.43” × 0.35”

TQ19H8: Beryl (variety emerald) replacing fossil

Even with its small size, the specimen is exceptional due the perfect preservation of the fossil. We must consider that fossilizations by Emerald, recently introduced, is quite extraordinary.
The specimen has been published in the book 'Garden of Emeralds', by L'École & Nicolas Bos, on page 31
Gachalá mining district, Matecaña Mine, Municipio Gachalá, Eastern Emerald Belt, Cundinamarca Department Colombia (03/2006)
Specimen size: 1.4 × 1.3 × 0.8 cm = 0.55” × 0.51” × 0.31”

BFR64AO6: Beryl (variety emerald) with Biotite

Beryl crystal (emerald variety) with distinct crystal forms, transparent, with good luster and an intense color, on a Biotite matrix. Without pretending to emulate the Colombian specimens, the emeralds from the Austrian Alps are the classic European reference for this variety of Beryl.
Habach Valley, Salzburg Austria
Specimen size: 3.9 × 1.9 × 1.4 cm = 1.54” × 0.75” × 0.55”

TRZ97AN6: Beryl (variety emerald) with Biotite

Beryl crystal (emerald variety) doubly terminated, with very sharp crystal forms, between transparent and translucent, with an intense and uniform color, on a micaceous matrix. This specimen comes from what is undoubtedly the most classic deposit for European emeralds.
Habach Valley, Salzburg Austria
Specimen size: 5.4 × 5.2 × 2.3 cm = 2.13” × 2.05” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.75” × 0.24”

ETT77ASN4: Beryl (variety emerald) with Biotite

Doubly terminated crystal of Beryl, emerald variety, with deep and uniform green color, translucent and bright, with striations on its faces and implanted on a matrix formed by Biotite crystals on a schist base. A very representative specimen of this old and classic Austrian site, from an old exchange in the Folch collection, accompanied by a typed card and handwritten notes that will be delivered to the buyer. The specimen has been photographed and published in the magazine ‘Paragénesis’, number 01/2025, page 108
Habach Valley, Salzburg Austria
Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.7 × 2 cm = 1.34” × 1.06” × 0.79”

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