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Topaz Gemstone

What is the Topaz

Topaz is a trendy gemstone for its beautiful and very bright color varieties.

The variety called Imperial Topaz is the rarest and most beautiful.
This gem is mentioned by Pliny the Elder, who identified it with the island of Zabargrad (from the Greek Topazios) in the Red Sea. Topaz was also well known in the civilization of ancient Rome and before that among the Greeks.

Topaz, in its yellow variety, is usually associated with wealth. It is considered a gem of good luck towards goals of success and financial well-being in all its color variations.

blue topaz gemstone
blue topaz mineral gemstone

Topaz Mineral

Topaz is a mineral-based on aluminum silicate; it is an allochromatic gem, and if pure, it is colorless. The inclusion of other elements such as Manganese, Chromium, or Iron makes it colored red (scarce), pink, blue-green, light blue, pink-orange, yellow-brown, yellow-orange, or yellow. This gem is mainly formed in plutonic and volcanic rocks.

Topaz is a gem as rare as it is beautiful that stands out because it is very bright. The deposits with the most brilliant colors are found in Brazil. The Ouro Preto area, in Minas Gerais, is the world's largest source of the Imperial Topaz and Red Topaz varieties. There are also essential deposits in Sri Lanka except for the pink ones found in Pakistan and Russia.

blue topaz gemstone

What is the Topaz

Topaz is a trendy gemstone for its beautiful and very bright color varieties.

The variety called Imperial Topaz is the rarest and most beautiful.
This gem is mentioned by Pliny the Elder, who identified it with the island of Zabargrad (from the Greek Topazios) in the Red Sea. Topaz was also well known in the civilization of ancient Rome and before that among the Greeks.

Topaz, in its yellow variety, is usually associated with wealth. It is considered a gem of good luck towards goals of success and financial well-being in all its color variations.

Topaz Birthstone & Anniversary

Topaz is the gemstone of the month of Citrine.

Topaz is traditionally given as a gift for the 4th and 23th wedding anniversaries.

Topaz Quality Factor

Discover the quality factor of the Topaz

The beauty of Topaz depends on the quality of the raw mineral highlighted by the master cutter.

We can summarize in 3 points a good quality Topaz:

  1. Topaz has countless colors, hues, and saturation, making it a very used and appreciated stone in jewelry.

  2. This gem is highly prized for its brilliance, which is why it is the most prized semiprecious gem.

  3. Topaz usually has very few internal inclusions and therefore belongs to the category of eye-clean gems.

lodon topaz blue gemstone round cut

The Brief History of Topaz

Topaz boasts multiple citations in the Bible. In the book of Exodus, we find that Topaz was one of the 12 stones of Aaron's breastplate, placed in the foundations of the City of Jerusalem.

Among the famous Topazes, the Braganza Diamond stands out, famous for its beautiful, absolutely colorless white color. For centuries, it was thought to be a 1680 Carat Diamond!

It is said that the ancients, given the sunny brightness of the Topaz, avoided looking for it during the day. It is said that they sought this gem only at night, in the dark, when its glitter made it visible.

In astronomy, this gem is close to the Sun and Jupiter, which is called "the crystal of power". In Roman times they thought that Topaz was able to enhance and bestow good health.

Why we love Topaz

Topaz jewelry

Natural Topaz has its main characters in clarity and is used in jewelry with great success. It is placed among the most precious gems because it is well suited to be inserted into a high-quality jewel.

The Natural Topaz of yellow, clear or intense color, has its double in Citrine Quartz, even if it remains rarer and has different intrinsic characteristics. It is often called Topaz for commercial purposes, but it is instead just Citrine Quartz. To recognize a Natural Topaz, we have to turn it slowly and observe the flat faces of the cut; if the edge of the underlying face doubles, it is undoubtedly a genuine natural Topaz.
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Topaz

The Emerald is a gem universally recognizable for its green color ranging from pale to intense. It represents eternal spring, immortality, youth, and prosperity.

In his Naturalis Historia Plinio il Vecchio defines the Emerald the gem whose color gives joy and refreshment, just to remember one of the most ancient quotes.

Emerald, What is it?

Emerald is the noblest variety of the Beryl family which in the case of the Emerald are influenced by Chromium particles. Thus green is born.

Pliny the Elder, in his Naturalis Historia, wrote about this stone:

"There really is no other stone whose color gives joy and refreshment to the eye like this, since there is no greener more intense than its color".

topaz necklace jewelry
blue topaz mineral

How take care of Emeralds

The hardness of the Beryl / Emerald is very low whatmakes it very fragile. Wearing an emerald as a ring implies the need to be very careful because an inadvertent impact could damage or chip it.

The emerald must always be cleaned with a dampcloth, without chemical additives of any kind, nor must it ever be placed in anultrasound tank.

The crystalline structure could have micro surfacefractures through which the color could be irreparably altered. Its beauty isequal to its delicacy.

The Emerald Details

Emeralds can contain infinitesimal, very small inclusions but sometimes also very large such as to be visible even with the naked eye.

Since transparency, together with the intensity of color, represent the elements on which beauty and value rest, the rarity of thegem is classified by observation with the naked eye.

oval emerald
emerald gemstone

The emerald structure

It should be emphasized that absolute transparency of the emerald is almost impossible due to their crystalline structure.

There are studies that claim that the Emeralds were known 3,500 years ago in Egypt.

The Emerald cut

The Emerald cut identifies a type of square and/or rectangular shape with rounded corners that enhances the color of the gem due to the presence of stepped facets that give brilliance and therefore those beautiful reflections that it gives off.

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pear emerald

Emerald, other cuts

There are also other cut forms of cut such as round, pear or marquise ovals that are mediated by the cut of diamonds but with a number of facets subject more to the shape than to an always equal parameter.

We can say that the master cutter proceeds by eye, adapting the stone to the raw crystal.

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Emerald on the calendar

Emerald is the stone for the month of May.