Interesting but are you sure? I''m in Europe and Aqua is "generally" considered to be a cheap stone - certainly not a collector''s stone. I''m not sure that I''ve ever seen anybody talk about a greener aqua and I''m surrounded by European gemstone junkies on a daily basis!!!
It''s not that great... I shoot ground up benitoite on a daily basis, and all that does is get me to normal.
I went for a bit of a bling-fest today and spent the morning playing with loose rocks in Hatton Garden and the afternoon looking at bling in N.ew Bond Street and I put the aqua question to a few people.
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The sea-foam colour is the most sought after shade in loose stones - the dealers are mainly selling to jewellers and not to the end customher. This shade is definitely on the greener end of aqua colours.
Popped into Asprey''s to have a look at their Daisy pendant (to die for: white gold pave daisies with pink sapphire centres and carved moonstone leaves) and took the opportunity to oggle their incredible emerald parure - the pendant was over £1 million GBP on it''s own.
The SA admired my e-ring and asked where I''d bought my ''emerald''. I told her it was a tsavorite garnet and she said that they didn''t really use garnets except as melee as they weren''t really precious stones - I pointed out that they had rather a lot of rubellite and aquamarine pieces and that tourmaline and aqua weren''t generally regarded as precious either. Her response was that aquamarine in particular was becoming very acceptable to their customers and they saw it as a "precious semi-precious".
I think you''re referring to the "maxixe beryl". It''s similar to aquamarine. They''re blue but they''re usually irradiated & some natural blue maxixe beryl looses its color when exposed to light for a long period... You can just try googling it for more info & maxixe beryl photos (some of ''em have nice blue color)
I don''t even care for the darker ones, still too grey, and if I''m going for a stone with a grey mask, I want it to sparkle and have fire and brilliance. I rather have a greyish blue spinel or a greyish diamond (a greyish blue diamond would be too expensive). I''ve seen zillions of aquas in my life, and some that deep dark Santa Maria color, and some so dark, they were almost sapphire dark, and they all make me go "meh." For a dark blue stone, I would rather go with a sapphire for the price since some of those Santa Maria''s can be very expensive. They all look like grey blue topaz to me.
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