How to choose the perfect emerald: the most important thing.

Emeralds continue to maintain a confident leading position in the search for natural stones individually for our clients.

And this is perhaps the most difficult and time-consuming work among the "flower garden".

To understand why, let's break down the pricing of an emerald, the difficulty of selecting it, and learn how to read international gemological laboratory certificates correctly.

When buying an emerald, we pay attention to the four most important parameters on which the final cost of the stone depends:

✅ Color

The brighter and richer the shade of the emerald, the higher the price per carat.

Did you pay attention to the variable palette of stones in the jewelry?

Usually, emeralds are selected by color to visually create a monochromatic canvas, but the idea of ​​decorating here was the opposite. (Insta - muzo) Emeralds worked in different shades.

Emeralds are the most difficult stones to select when buying online.

If you don't have the necessary vision, getting into the shade of green you need is almost impossible. After all, the camera cannot convey the real color of the emerald.

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Hundreds of hours have been spent on this project. Expensive equipment, even in a detailed examination of the stone, cannot unequivocally answer the categorization of color.

And imagine if a person shoots it for you indoors using a phone, without the necessary lighting, in a hurry and wanting to sell it. What is the probability that the stone will be visually distorted? And most likely for the better than it really is.

Don't take risks.

✅ The cost of an emerald also depends on its purity.

But! Almost all emeralds have inclusions. This is the only stone in which the "natural forest inside" does not repel, but on the contrary can add value to the stone.

Why such visible fragility?

Emeralds are mined using gentle dynamite.

Yes, the rock is blown up, and traces remain on the emeralds inside.

The hardness of an emerald is not the most ideal. On the Mohs scale, the total is 7.5. While a diamond has 10. Accordingly, the method of extraction will always leave its mark on a natural emerald.

If you have a crystal clear emerald, you are lucky. After all, this is 1% of all raw materials.

✅ Deposit

The highest quality emeralds come from the following countries:

Colombia, Zambia, Russia, Afghanistan, Brazil

It is believed that the highest value stones are mined in Colombia, in the Muzo region. It is hard to imagine that the Indians fought for the Colombian mines with the Spanish colonialists from the second half of the 16th century. Perhaps the value has developed historically ...

Seasoned collectors are more likely to lean towards Muzo emeralds as their supply is limited and they have 500 years of history behind them.

But, for an equally beautiful stone from Zambia or Brazil, you will be asked for 60–70% less than for a Colombian one.

✅ The last and very important characteristic that affects the cost of an emerald is ennoblement

Emeralds are ennobled in 99%. More often, to “smooth out” the inclusions and increase the strength of the stone.

That is, when choosing your emerald, pay attention to the type of refinement. It is wonderful when the stone is improved with the help of cedar oil. Emeralds ennobled with resin cost much less.

The method of refining and the degree are always indicated in the stone certificate like this:

• insignificant (translated from English - "negligible"),

• minor (translated from English – “insignificant”),

• moderate (translated from English - "moderate"),

• significant (translated from English - significant).

Emeralds without oiling are extremely rare.

And when documents say “No oil” or “No indications of clarity enhancements”, this means that the emerald was not ennobled, that is, the stone was not purposefully improved by a person.

And this is a huge rarity! But, keep in mind that the margin for such emeralds ranges from 20-50%.

Being guided by the pricing of emeralds on your own, you will be able to purchase a really good stone.

And to pick up and deliver the emerald to the customer - trust the professional.

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