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Beryl is a family of gemstone that include emerald, aquamarine, beryl (green), red, morganite (yellow), and heliodor (pink). Internal flaws in beryl gems can be hidden by treating the stone with oil (this is often not disclosed to the buyer).

Chemistry:

Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈ - Beryllium Aluminum Silicate

Class:

Subclass:

Varieties:

Aquamarine, emerald, heliodor, morganite, goshenite & red beryl (bixbite).

Color:

Green, blue to blue-green, yellow, greenish-gold, red, colorless and pink

Streak:

White

Luster:

Vitreous to dull

Diaphaneity:

Transparent to Translucent

2.6

7.5 - 8

Imperfect

Uneven to concohidal

Long prismatic to tabular cyrstals, columnar and radial aggregates, granular, massive

Luminescence:

Non-fluorescent

Frequency:

Abundant

Origin:

Magmatic in pegmatites and granites; hydrothermal in greisens. in cavities in rhyolite, in quartz veins; metamorphic in mica schists.

Occurence:

Keystone, South Dakota, USA; Namivo, Alto Ligonha, Mozambique; Pica, Brazil; Iveland, Norway; Antsirbabe, Madagascar.

Application:

Ore, cut as gemstones, as a mineral specimen

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