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We have some 10k Gold Santa Maria Aquamarine Stud earrings coming up shortly - and the price will make you very happy. WHAT IS Santa Maria Aquamarine? Aquamarine is a light-toned and slightly-saturated blue to greenish blue variety of beryl. Its name, which means sea water, is derived from its pleasant marine color. Together with the emerald, aquamarine is among the most popular varieties of the species. One of the rarest and most expensive varieties of aquamarine are gemstones with a deeply saturated blue color beryl known as Santa Maria. They are named in honor of Santa Maria de Itabira, which is the site in Brazil where the first such stones were discovered in the 1950s. The original deposit is almost depleted, and today most of the Santa Maria colors are found in several sub-Saharan countries of Africa, including Mozambique, which in 1991 became the first known African source, Zambia and Tanzania. These gemstones are typically small, with polished gems of more than half a carat being quite rare. Such aquamarine is called Santa Maria Africana or Santa Maria Afrique, to distinguish it from the Brazilian variety.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 17:04:39 +0000

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