Aquamarine



         


Aquamarine is gemstone-quality blue beryl, closely related to the emerald. Aquamarines can be found in the United States in Colorado at the summit of Mt. Antero in the Collegiate Range in central Colorado. In Brazil, there are mines in the states of Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo and Bahia.

The biggest aquamarine ever mined was found at the city of Marambaia, Minas Gerais. It weighted over 110 kg, and its dimensions were 48.5 cm long and 42 cm in diameter.

See also: List of minerals

aquamarine

Aquamarine is also a color, a shade between green and blue.


Colors | List of colors

White Silver Gray Black
Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet
Pink Chartreuse Teal Cyan Azure Magenta
Aquamarine Beige Bistre Brown Cardinal Carmine Coral Crimson Emerald Gold Lavender Maroon Mauve
Navy blue Ochre Olive Peach Powder blue Purple Salmon Tan

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Aquamarine is also the unusual heraldic tincture of the Jewish Autonomous Region in Russia; it is shown as a kind of dark green.








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