Ruby$11,800+1.4%Sapphire$86,000-0.4%Sapphire$11,500+1.8%Emerald$34,000+1.3%Emerald$13,200+2.6%Paraíba Tourmaline$42,000+4.7%Paraíba Tourmaline$13,000+3.1%Spinel$6,200+0.6%Cobalt Spinel$21,000+5.2%
WORLDWIDE LAUNCHFebruary 2027
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Aquamarine

AQUAMARINE

The blue of sea water

Aquamarine is blue beryl, coloured by iron. Large, clean crystals are found more often than in most species, so size is less of a constraint and colour decides almost everything.

The deepest blues set the price; the name Santa Maria, from a Brazilian mine, is still used in the trade for the most intense colour. Brazil, Mozambique, Nigeria, Madagascar and Pakistan produce. Much aquamarine is heated to remove a green tint.

SOURCE
Brazil, Mozambique
Also Nigeria, Madagascar and Pakistan.
VALUE DRIVER
Depth of blue
Pale stones are common; saturated blue is not.
TREATMENT
Often heated
Heating removes green; untreated fine blue is scarcer.
VAULT TRADE STANDARD

Only the finest aquamarine: intense, saturated blue, eye-clean, from 10 ct, untreated, with a top-four laboratory report.

NOT YET LISTEDAquamarine lists on CGEMX when real stones arrive, with real prices.