9 - Aquamarine

ID	9
Mineral	Aquamarine
Location	Braldu Valley - Pakistan
Fluorescence	LW-UV: close SW-UV: close
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ID	289
Long ID	1:1:289:1
IMA Status	0 1
Variety of	819
Entry type	2
Description	A sky-blue to sea-green gem variety of beryl. It is mainly associated with granitic pegmatites.
Other Occurrences	pegmatites
Cleavage	Imperfect
Colour	Blue
Hardness (min)	7.5
Hardness (max)	8.0
Luminescence	Non-fluorescent
Lustre	Vitreous
About the name	The name aquamarine comes from aqua (Latin for 'water'), and marine, deriving from marina (Latin for 'of the sea'). The first reference in English to "Aquamarina" appears in Anselmus Boetius De Boot book GEMMARUM ET LAPIDUM HISTORIA (1609, in Latin). It was later cited in "A Lapidary History or History of Precious Stones" by Thomas Nicols, Cambridge (1652, page 114), where it states that the name was used by the Italians for blue-green varieties of beryl.
Streak	White
Crystal System	Hexagonal
key_elements	0

Aquamarine