✨Birthstone of the month of May: Emerald ✨

💚Green jewels from the great beryl family! 🤍

💚Emerald gets its bright green colour from the tiny amounts of chromium Cr and vanadium V in its structure ✅✨

✨ The most famous source of emerald is still Colombia 🇨🇴. Brazil 🇧🇷 and Zambia 🇿🇲 are the main producers and also offer emeralds of very fine quality.

🥽🧪🥼 There are also some very fine synthetic emeralds (hydrothermal method and flux).

📸Photos:

(1) and (4) synthetic emerald hydrothermal method.

(2) and (3) Brazilian emerald and three-phase inclusions.

(5) Filling a fracture with oil. UV light gives a red colour to the emerald and a green colour to the oil.

(6) and (7) Rough emerald from Harvard Museum of Natural History @harvardmuseum and Musée de Minéralogie Mines Paris - PSL @mineralotech

(6) and (7) Emeralds set in Van Cleef & Arpels necklaces at the American Museum of Natural History @amnh

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