Aquamarine – WS1284

Aquamarine is a valued gem of ancient lineage. the name “aquamarine” is derived from the Latin word for seawater. Aquamarine is the birthstonefor the month of March.Like emerald, aquamarine is a color variety of the mineral beryl.Aquamarine's Refractive index: 1.577 to 1.583, Birefringence: 0.005 to 0.009,Specific gravity: 2.72 and Mohs Hardness is 7.5 to 8.0.The best gems combine high clarity with limpid transparency and blue to slightly greenish blue hues.According to folklore, aquamarine would bring victory in battles and legal disputes.Most of the aquamarine on the market today comes from Brazil, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Colombia, India, Russia, and several other countries. The gem was also credited with curing belching and yawning and was considered especially effective for curing ailments of the jaws, throat, stomach, liver and toothaches. Aquamarine was also used in ceremonies in the belief that it would bring rain when needed, or visit drought upon their enemies. Because of its flowing, peaceful energy, aquamarine has a strong ability to help move, protect, and purify your own energy and thus aid emotional healing as well as deepen meditative states. If you are learning to meditate, aquamarine can also help you access deeper meditative states as well as help you to get in touch with your own inner wisdom and source of power. Any gemstones that is not a diamond, ruby, emerald or sapphire is a semi-precious gemstone.Those four are considered precious because of the time it takes to create them, their rarity, and their quality or chemical makeup. Semi-precious does not mean it is less valuable than precious gemstones. Semi-precious gemstones are just usually more abundant, except some verities.This is a commercial based classification and was a distinction that marketers created years ago which gives the false impression that precious stones are more valuable than semi-precious stones.For example, a Tsavorite (green) garnet is more valuable than a mid-quality sapphire, many of them can be just as precious or rare as diamonds and rubies. There are so many semi precious gemstones in the world of gems but some of the more common ones are: alexandrite, agate, amethyst, aquamarine, garnet, lapis lazuli, moonstone, opal, pearl, peridot, rose quartz, spinel, tanzanite, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.There are approximately 200 varieties of natural gemstone known in the world today.