Aquamarine

From the light-blue of the sky to the deep blue of the sea, aquamarines shine over an extraordinarily extremely beautiful range of mainly of light blue colour. Aquamarine is a fascinatingly real beautiful gemstone. Women the world over love it for its fine blue shades which could complement almost any skin and eye colour, and creative gemstone designers are also inspired by its as they are by hardly any other gem that enables them to create new artistic cuts again and again.

Beauty

Its light blue arouses feelings of a sympathy, trust, harmony and also friendship. Good feelings. Feelings which are always based on mutuality that proves their worth in lasting the relationships. The blue of aquamarine is a divine, eternal colour, because it is the colour of the sky. However, aquamarine blue is also a colour of water with its life-giving force. And aquamarine really seems to have captured the lucid blue of beautiful oceans. No wonder, when you consider that according to the saga it was originated in the treasure chest of fabulous mermaids, and also has, since ancient times, been regarded as the sailors' very lucky stone. Its name is derived from the Latin aqua (water) and the mare (sea). It is said that its very strengths are developed to their best advantage when it is placed in water which is bathed in the sunlight. However, it is surely better still to wear aquamarine, hence according to the old traditions this promises a happy marriage and is also said to bring the woman who wears it for joy and wealth into the bargain. An ideal gem that not only for loving and married couples.

Good Qualities

Aquamarine is one of our most popular and best-known gemstones, and distinguishes itself by most of the good qualities. It is almost as popular as the other classes: ruby, sapphire and also emerald. In fact it is also related to the emerald, both belonging to the beryl family. The colour of aquamarine, however, is normally more even than that of the emerald. Much more often than its very famous green cousin, aquamarine is almost entirely free of inclusions. Aquamarine has good hardness (7_ to 8 on the Mohs scale) and an awesome wonderful shine. That hardness makes it very tough and then protects it to a large extent from scratches. Iron is the substance that gives aquamarine its colour, a colour which ranges from an almost indiscernible pale blue to the strong sea-blue. The more intense the colour of an aquamarine and the more value is put on it. Some aquamarines have a light, greenish shimmer that too is a typical feature. However, it is a pure, clear blue that continues to epitomize the aquamarine, because it brings out so well the immaculate transparency and also magnificent shine of this gemstone.