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Only precious beryl variety and part of the prestigious trinity of colourful precious stones with ruby and sapphire corundum, emerald has an unique place in history and has been highly valued for its extraordinary shades of green since more than 4000 years.
It became in use as a commodity money in the Fertile Crescent and decorated the powerful Pharaoh's sarcophagus.
The name emerald itself derives from 'zamarat' in Persian, meaning heart of stone, literally the most essential and highest spiritual value 'organ' the mountains can offer.

Here is a beautiful specimen of fine quality emerald, on matrix, from the most famous locality for this precious stone and main provider of fine jewellery-grade crystals: Muzo, in the Colombian Andes!

It displays several very green emerald crystals embedded in grey schist-included calcite, up to 2 cm long.
The main gem crystal, standing out from the matrix, is 0.6 cm long.

A great opportunity to obtain a good specimen of gem emerald on matrix from Colombia!

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Muzo mine, Boyacá, Andes, Colombia

Emerald in grey calcite (shist inclusions) - Muzo mine, Boyacá, Andes, Colombia - Height: 4 cm - Width: 3 cm- 25 g

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Paleogene, Eocene (56 - 33.9 million years)

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Cretaceous, Lower (145 - 100.5 million years)

Paleogene, Oligocene (33.9 - 23.03 million years)

Cretaceous (145 - 66 million years)

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Paleogene (66 - 23.03 million years)

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Antwerp Laboratory for Gemstone Testing (ALGT)

GEM-TECH Istituto Gemmologico

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