5325 Carat Pink Emerald

[Ninama]

This is the Largest carved or faceted Pink Emerald in the World, carved in 1991 by the Master European gemstone carver, Manfred Wild of Idar-Oberstein, Germany. This 5325 Carat Porcine (Pig) has faceted Red Ruby eyes and was carved from a large piece of Pink Emerald rough from Brazil. "Pinky", as he is affectionately known by the Press throughout the world, has appeared on the cover of many magazines and numerous articles have been written about this record setting world famous Pink Emerald. Pinky is currently celebrating the good luck and good fortune of Chinese New Year during 2007 which is the Year of the Pig.

Gemstone Type: Natural Pink Emerald
Reference#: ODA112
Weight: 5325 Carats
Size: 10 inches x 3.8 Inches
Price Per Carat: $ N/A
Shape & Cut: Carving
Color: Pink
Tone: Rich
Country of Origin: Brazil/Germany
Clarity: Opaque
Enhancement Code: N
Retail Price: $2,750,000 USD

Your Price: $2,500,000 USD

 

[colormyworld]

And to think all these years I thought emeralds were green. I really MUST take some gemology classes. Perhaps this is some other type of Beryl

 

[DiamanteBlu]

WOW! That piggie is gorgeous! Thanks for posting it!

BTW, Emeralds are also red! Cherry Picked sent out an email to their customers a month or two ago. I tossed it but I'll see if I can find the link for some pics.

Pink emerald's chemical name is morganite [after JP Morgan, no less!]. Both pink and green emeralds have the same chemical composition: Be3Al2(SiO3)6 - like all beryls.

"Beryl occurs in white, green, blue-green, greenish yellow, blue, yellow, and pink colors, with a vitreous luster. The gem varieties includes emerald, (green beryl), aquamarine (blue beryl) morganite (pink beryl), heliodor (golden emerald or golden beryl), bixbite (red beryl) and goshenite (clear beryl). It usually contains some alkali ions (Na, Li, K, and CS), it may contains Manganese (believed to give it color in red beryl, just as lithium and cesium have been described as the color donors in Morganite or Pink Beryl) and perhaps small amounts of Iron, Calcium, or chromium. Beryl occurs in white, green, blue-green, greenish yellow, blue, yellow, and pink colors, with a vitreous luster. The gem varieties includes emerald, (green beryl), aquamarine (blue beryl) morganite (pink beryl), heliodor (golden emerald or golden beryl), bixbite (red beryl) and goshenite (clear beryl). It usually contains some alkali ions (Na, Li, K, and CS), it may contains Manganese (believed to give it color in red beryl, just as lithium and cesium have been described as the color donors in Morganite or Pink Beryl) and perhaps small amounts of Iron, Calcium, or chromium." from Red-Emerald.com.

 

[colormyworld]

Emeralds are not red or pink. They are GREEN !!!!

I think some vendors come up with this kind of stuff just to generate some kind of buzz or hype for the product they are selling.

That is a very nice looking picture. BTW

 

[Ninama]

Date: 12/23/2007 11:09:15 AM
Author: colormyworld
Emeralds are not red or pink. They are GREEN !!!!

Like diamonds are white and sapphires are blue?

The History of Pink Emeralds

Pink Emeralds have a rather interesting past that includes some mystery, intrigue and at times, nomenclature and historical controversies. Depending on with whom you speak, you will probably get a slightly different version of exactly where these precious gemstones were first discovered and how they were first named. Regardless of the story version, what is clear is it seems that the gemstone was first discovered on the planet in the late 1800’s. Probably the first found crystals being called Vorobievite, Worobieffite and Rosterite, though the majority of references began to use the modern mineral term, Morganite around the early 1900’s when it was first discovered in the United States, in California, in the Pala pegmatites and was thrust into greater public awareness. At this point in time, the mineral find was attributed to geologist George Kunz who re-named it Morganite at around the turn of the century. It was also rediscovered for what may be “the fifth” of the so claimed “first time” discoveries, and this time in Madagascar around 1908.

Regardless of the name and its actual time of discovery, the exact chemical composition of the mineral is clearly known to be Be3Al2Si6O18. Beryllium-Aluminum Silicate or Beryl as it is sometimes called, like almost all gem and mineral varieties, can be found in almost every color of the rainbow. The Chemical composition of beryl is beryllium (14%) aluminum (19%) silicate (67%), usually containing alkali ions, other minerals, water, and gases. The green colored beryl is usually known as Green Emerald yet the very lighter green stones continued to be called Green Beryl. Some of the older mineral dealers to this day refer to the pink variety of beryllium-aluminum silicate as, Pink Beryl. The pink colored beryl is derived from a natural coloring agent within the stone which is due to the trace element Manganese +3.

 

[colormyworld]

No I would say this is more in line with saying there are blue rubies.

A beryl that is pink is morganite or maybe pezzeolite. Red would be bixbite. Emeralds are GREEN.

 

[LadyAmythyst69]

Calling Morganite "pink emeralds" is just retailers way of making that stone sound more appealing to consumers.

Personally I wish they would just call them all Beryl and leave it at that!

 

[DiamanteBlu]

Date: 12/23/2007 9:35:55 AM
Author: DiamanteBlu
WOW! That piggie is gorgeous! Thanks for posting it!


BTW, Emeralds are also red! Cherry Picked sent out an email to their customers a month or two ago. I tossed it but I'll see if I can find the link for some pics.


Pink emerald's chemical name is morganite [after JP Morgan, no less!]. Both pink and green emeralds have the same chemical composition: Be3Al2(SiO3)6 - like all beryls.


'Beryl occurs in white, green, blue-green, greenish yellow, blue, yellow, and pink colors, with a vitreous luster. The gem varieties includes emerald, (green beryl), aquamarine (blue beryl) morganite (pink beryl), heliodor (golden emerald or golden beryl), bixbite (red beryl) and goshenite (clear beryl). It usually contains some alkali ions (Na, Li, K, and CS), it may contains Manganese (believed to give it color in red beryl, just as lithium and cesium have been described as the color donors in Morganite or Pink Beryl) and perhaps small amounts of Iron, Calcium, or chromium. Beryl occurs in white, green, blue-green, greenish yellow, blue, yellow, and pink colors, with a vitreous luster. The gem varieties includes emerald, (green beryl), aquamarine (blue beryl) morganite (pink beryl), heliodor (golden emerald or golden beryl), bixbite (red beryl) and goshenite (clear beryl). It usually contains some alkali ions (Na, Li, K, and CS), it may contains Manganese (believed to give it color in red beryl, just as lithium and cesium have been described as the color donors in Morganite or Pink Beryl) and perhaps small amounts of Iron, Calcium, or chromium.' from Red-Emerald.com.

How strange! I did not notice the quote posted twice. Sorry!

 

[DiamanteBlu]

Whether you call it pink beryl [of which great specimens are quite rare], morganite or pink emerald - the fact remains that the piggie is one spectacular specimen! It would look great on my desk!

 

[DiamanteBlu]

Date: 12/23/2007 11:40:42 AM
Author: colormyworld
Emeralds are GREEN.

That''s what I though too until I got the email from Cherry Picked!

 

[DiamanteBlu]

Found it!
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I got this email from CherryPicked.com today. How cool are these! From Utah, no less!

"Imagine how Dorothy and her companions might have reacted had their journey to the fabled Wizard of Oz''s "Emerald City" brought them to a red instead of a green megalopolis. Surprised, I''d think!

In fact, most people are surprised to learn that Emeralds lead a double (color) life. Indeed, the most rare type of Emerald is the Red Beryl commonly called, Red Emerald.

In 1904, Maynard Bixby discovered Red Beryl in the Thomas Range located in Juab County, Utah. Bixby thought it might be a new variety of beryl, but the raspberry- red color did not correlate with any beryl known to exist at that time (green, blue, pink, yellow, and clear/white).

Ranging from orange-red to purplish red, Red Beryl occurs in hexagonal crystals, which is typical of Beryls. Red Beryl is found within the host Rhyolite. These Rhyolites ordinarily lack gem minerals therefore the presence of Red Beryl suggests some very unusual conditions for gemstone formation.

If size matters to you, prepare to be disappointed. The average faceted Red Emerald is only .15 carats. That should put most of the rare Red Emeralds being presented here into perspective for you.

One trusim that pervades the world of Red Emeralds is that typically the finest richest red colors are also the most highly included and just as green Emeralds exhibit extensive inclusions and "jardin" so too do Red Emeralds. Finding clean material is nearly impossible. And just as green Emeralds are oiled to maintain luster, so too are Red Beryls (though the ultra rare super quality 2.30 below is another story altogether.)

CherryPicked is pleased to present a connoisseurs selection of rare Red Beryls for your considerations and in doing so, we will also shed some light on one of the finest Red Beryls in existence; The Libbie Red Shield."

Here are a few links to the descriptions from the private gallery with the pic below. Enjoy!

http://www.cherrypicked.com/Gallery/Score.aspx?ItemID=1997http://www.cherrypicked.com/Gallery/Score.aspx?ItemID=1999http://www.cherrypicked.com/Gallery/Score.aspx?ItemID=2004http://www.cherrypicked.com/Gallery/Score.aspx?ItemID=2005http://www.cherrypicked.com/Gallery/Score.aspx?ItemID=2008http://www.cherrypicked.com/Gallery/Score.aspx?ItemID=1998http://www.cherrypicked.com/Gallery/Score.aspx?ItemID=2000http://www.cherrypicked.com/Gallery/Score.aspx?ItemID=2002http://www.cherrypicked.com/Gallery/Score.aspx?ItemID=2009

And . . . drum roll, please . . . the Libbie Red Shield - 2.30 carats

 

[DiamanteBlu]

And why is it that I can't edit my post to break up the URL's?

 

[colormyworld]

Very pretty beryls CP has.
I can go one better though. I have the only orange tsavorites in all the universe. Very Rare and expensive. At least that is what the vendor said when I bought them.

 

[DiamanteBlu]

Can you post a pic? I'' LOVE to see it! [I''ve been collecting stones since elementary school - I love minerals - yes, strange, I know, LOL!]

BTW, I did make another post with those links in clickable form and now I don''t see it. I guess it was not meant to be. You''ll have to chop up the links yourselves.

 

[colormyworld]

Well see that is the thing. When ever I take a picture it ends up looking just like a hessonite. I can''t explain it.

 

[Linda W]

Surfing on the home shopping channels, I see that too. They see here is a red emerald or a pink emerald, blah blah blah. I feel like calling them up and telling them how stupid they are. ha ha ha ha ha. Oops, that isn''t very nice of me is it?????

Linda

 

[DiamanteBlu]

Date: 12/23/2007 4:17:29 PM
Author: colormyworld
Well see that is the thing. When ever I take a picture it ends up looking just like a hessonite. I can't explain it.

Oooooh, that sucks. I have the perfect solution. Looks like we will need to get together, then.

I'm in the Boston area. Are you nearby or at the other end of the earth? LOL!

If you are not nearby I'd love to hear the specs and even if the pic is crappy that is OK with me [you probably missed the posts I made of some of my stuff - lots to be desired as far as the photography quality goes].

 

[colormyworld]

I am not to far from you as the WWW goes. I live in the SE US. Come on down.

I would enjoy looking at your posted pics. Can you put some links up of pics posted here?

 

[Harriet]

colormyworld, I beat you. I have raspberry tsavorite.

 

[chrono]

Sounds just like those green amethysts sales pitch.

 

[DiamanteBlu]

Date: 12/24/2007 7:16:15 PM
Author: colormyworld
I am not to far from you as the WWW goes. I live in the SE US. Come on down.


I would enjoy looking at your posted pics. Can you put some links up of pics posted here?

Here ya go!
Diamond Rings thread.

 

[LembeckGems]

ll the pink morganites sued everybody hew could for the right to call morganite pink emerald. and won so he claims. he can call it anything he wants. the piggie is nice and it's morganite.

from every dealer's point of view, i can tell you. it's complete and utter nonsense. why not call aquamarine blue emerald. because there's no chromium or vanadium.
we had blue emerald. chromium and copper. copper bearing emerald. it was blue.






so this pink emerald stuff is complete bs. no dealer would pay more than 500 bucks for that pig. generally the bigger the morganite the less per carat it's worth.






red emerald. bixbite does look like emerald. with all due respect to reggie miller (cherry picked) it is NOT commonly known as red emerald. that is more super BS.






get me a certificate where it says bixbite is emerald.






let's ask ourselves this. why is GREEN beryl NOT classified as emerald. hmmm??? We're accustomed to retail stores treating "privates" as rubes to be marketed. when dealers start doing it I find it particularly annoying.

my final thoughts. what a load of crap. I can just see the eyes of every dealer, gemologist and gem lab on 47th street rolloing at the idea of a morganite being a pink emerald.






steve lembeck






edward lembeck & bros.






every gem has a destiny

 

[EstateJeweler]

As others have said; there is no such thing as a pink emerald. A "crafty" jeweler will sometimes refer to Morganite as Pink Emerald since they are both part of the Beryl Family of stones. Calling a Morganite a Pink Emerald is (in my opinion) very deceptive. I wouldn''t call an Aquamarine a blue Emerald and I won''t call a Morganite a Pink Emerald.

Interesting Fact: Morganite was named after the famous banker J.P. Morgan.

 

[EstateJeweler]

Sorry, I just read Steve''s post and realized that my comment was a bit redundant. I even thought of the same Aquamarine analogy! I guess that great minds think alike