What is the mineral aquamarine made of?

Answer 1

Sapphire is formed from deep within the Earth. Every few years some very few geysers (mostly underwater or in caves) spout volcanic mineral, having that mineral take years to harden and condense, due to it not having much oxygen or sunlight, it becomes perfection.

Answer 2

Emerald, the green variety of the mineral Beryl, is the most famous and favored green gemstone. Its beautiful green color, combined with durability and rarity, make it one of the most valuable gemstones. Pure beryl is white; emerald's green color is caused by chromium impurities (and occasionally by vanadium impurities). Deep green is the most desired color in emeralds. The paler the color of the emerald, the lesser its value. Pale emeralds are not called emeralds, but "green beryl". They are sometimes heat-treated, in which they become aquamarine.

The finest Emeralds come from Muzo and Chivor, Colombia. Fine material has also come from Minas Gerais, Brazil and the Ural Mountains of Russia. Emeralds have also come from the Cobra and Somerset Mines in Transvaal, South Africa, and the Habatchal, Austria. In the U.S., the only significant Emerald deposits are in North Carolina. The most productive and famous locality there is Hiddenite, Alexander Co. Small amounts from North Carolina have also been found in Shelby, Cleveland Co.; Big Crabtree Mountain, Alexander Co.; and Franklin, Alexander Co.

Beryl is famous for its perfect, six-sided crystals. Crystals are prismatic hexagons, and usually occur individually. Crystals may be enormous. Some 30 foot long (about 8 meters), well-crystallized examples are known to exist. Also occurs in short, stubby crystals, and occasionally in tabular crystals and plates. Crystals are usually not terminated, and their bases are either flat or damaged. Even when terminated, they are rarely fully terminated like a bipyramidal hexagon.Also occurs in columnar aggregates and massive. Only rarely found in drusy or platy aggregates and as bundles of thin, long crystals.Crystals are usually striated lengthwise with very fine striations.),Chemical Formula: Be3Al2SiO6 Composition: Beryllium aluminum silicate, sometimes with some sodium, lithium, and cesium

Answer 3

Gemstones are mineral crystals that have the desirable characteristics of hardness, color, and clarity, and are usually formed underground through the effects of pressure and heat.

Answer 4

First a dinosaur's heart falls out, and is boiled in lava. 200 years later, it is sapphire.

Answer 5

Aquamarine is a blue to green-blue variety of the mineral beryl. It gets its color from trace amounts of iron in its crystal structure. Aquamarine is composed of beryllium aluminum cyclosilicate.

Answer 6

what is a sapphire made of

Answer 7

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