What is the True Color of Aquamarine? How is it Heated?
OK, probably the most common misconception that people have is that Aquamarine should be just blue, usually they want dark blue. However, Websters dictionary defines Aquamarine as “a transparent blueish-green variety of Beryl. Blueish-green is the key phrase here. I would personally define Aquamarine as being blue in body color with sea green highlights. I define Seafoam as being green in body color with blue highlights. I think these colors are gorgeous and I sell them quite well, mainly because most of the jewelers that I am dealing with never see these colors and they like something different, a lot of them do not even recognize these colors as being Aquamarine. Almost all Aquamarine starts out life blueish-green and is heated to blue. Frankly blue is more marketable, at least commercially to the general public. There is some material that does come out of the ground blue, heated by mother nature I suspect. I do not know if it is because all of the Aquamarine is heated blue and mark
