Je vous emmène à travers mes vidéos découvrir mon expérience acquise depuis plus de 30 ans a silloner le globe entier à la recherche de pierres précieuses, de rencontre mémorables mais aussi de difficulté parfois …
Its name comes from the latin “aqua marina”, meaning “water of the sea”, because of its seawater color, the dark blue is the most desidered color…like the ocean! Belongs to the beryl group, same as Emerald which is a deep green beryl. Aquamarines have been
This is a quartz, more exactly a transluscent chalcedony (itself a variety of cryptocrystalline quartz) which shows concentric bands sometimes containing opale. Comes in many colors, banded, forming concentric bands, more or less circular up to oval. Their formation is so far discuted : or
Found in 1821 by P.Ström and named “acmite” from the Greek “point, edge” in reference to the typical pointed crystals. But in 1835 Berzelius named it aegirine after Aegir, the Teutonic god of the sea. Richer in sodium than augite, it oxydizes itself, pruducing chlorite,
