SANTA ANA Debbie Kordon stared at the huge aquamarine crystal placed in a thin silver bowl and shout out laughing.

“42,000 carats!” she said, reading from the description of “Evolution Crystallized,” a beryl crystal from Brazil that’s as large as a plastic milk jug and is 42,222 carats, to be exact. “It’s like this piece of nature. It’s astonishing. It’s gigantic and enormous and gorgeous,” Kordon said. “The idea that it stayed whole and they found it is unbelievable.”

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