by Red beryl, formerly known as bixbite and marketed as red emerald or scarlet emerald, is an extremely rare variety of beryl as well as one of the rarest minerals on Earth.
The gem gets its red color from manganese ions embedded inside of beryllium aluminium cyclosilicate crystals.
The color of red beryl is stable up to 1,000 °C (1,830 °F).
Red Beryl can come in various tints like strawberry, bright ruby, cherry, and orange.[3]
The greatest concentration of gem-grade red beryl comes from the Ruby-Violet Claim in the Wah Wah Mountains of mid-western Utah, discovered in 1958 by Lamar Hodges, of Fillmore, Utah, while he was prospecting for uranium.
Red beryl is very rare and has been reported only from a handful of locations: Wah Wah Mountains, Paramount Canyon, Round Mountain and Juab County, all in the south-western United States.
The narrow geographic range suggests that the specific conditions needed for its formation do not occur frequently.
This gem is a thousand times rarer than gold.
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The gem gets its red color from manganese ions embedded inside of beryllium aluminium cyclosilicate crystals.
The color of red beryl is stable up to 1,000 °C (1,830 °F).
Red Beryl can come in various tints like strawberry, bright ruby, cherry, and orange.[3]
The greatest concentration of gem-grade red beryl comes from the Ruby-Violet Claim in the Wah Wah Mountains of mid-western Utah, discovered in 1958 by Lamar Hodges, of Fillmore, Utah, while he was prospecting for uranium.
Red beryl is very rare and has been reported only from a handful of locations: Wah Wah Mountains, Paramount Canyon, Round Mountain and Juab County, all in the south-western United States.
The narrow geographic range suggests that the specific conditions needed for its formation do not occur frequently.
This gem is a thousand times rarer than gold.
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