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A number of individual
gemstones are famous in their own right, either because of their size and beauty or because of the people who owned or wore them.
Aquamarines
Diamonds
See
List of diamonds
Emeralds
Bahia Emerald
[2]
Carolina Emperor,
[3]
[4] 310 carats uncut, 64.8 carats cut; discovered in the United States in 2009, resides in the
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences , Raleigh, NC, US
Chalk Emerald
Duke of Devonshire Emerald
Emerald of Saint Louis,
[5] 51.60 carats cut; discovered in Austria, probably Habachtal, resides in the
National Museum of Natural History , Paris
Gachalá Emerald
[6]
Mogul Mughal Emerald , 217.80 carats cut; mined in Colombia and cut in the
Mughal empire in
Hijri year 1107 (1695–1696), resides in the
Museum of Islamic Art, Doha , Qatar
[7]
[8]
Patricia Emerald,
[9] 632 carats uncut, dihexagonal (12 sided); discovered in Colombia in 1920, resides in the
American Museum of Natural History , New York, NY, US
Opals
Pearls
Rubies
Sapphires
Spinels
Topazes
Tsavorite
Images
See also
References
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https://web.archive.org/web/20140705193815/http://smithsonianscience.org/2012/12/dom-pedro-aquamarine-to-go-on-view-at-the-smithsonians-natural-history-museum/
^ Allen, Nick (September 24, 2010).
"Judge to decide who owns 250 million Bahia emerald.html" .
The Daily Telegraph , UK . Retrieved December 31, 2010 .
^ Gast, Phil (2010-09-01).
"North Carolina emerald: Big, green and very rare" . CNN . Cable News Network (Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.). Retrieved 2013-10-08 .
^ Stancill, Jane (2012-03-16).
"N.C. gems to shine at museum" .
The News & Observer . The News & Observer Publishing Co. Archived from
the original on 2012-03-27. Retrieved 2013-10-08 .
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"Emeraude de Saint Louis – St Louis Emerald" . CRPG: Le Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques . Retrieved 8 February 2017 .
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"Gachala Emerald" . National Museum of Natural History . Smithsonian Institution. 2017. Retrieved February 8, 2017 .
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"A Magnificent Carved Emerald" .
Christie's . Retrieved September 27, 2010 .
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"The World's Largest Emeralds" . International Gem Society.
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"Patricia Emerald" . AMNH . Retrieved 2017-12-09 .
External links
Gemmological classifications by E. Ya. Kievlenko (1980), updated
Jewelry stones
Jewelry-Industrial stones
Industrial stones Related
List of precious stones by size