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It is indeed a pleasure to showcase this one of a kind vivid green butterfly wing effect Colombian Muzo emerald, it has a carat weight of 1.46 Ct, this emerald has an exquisite vivid green colour, maverlous light dispersion and outstanding clarity, this emerald has only oiling treatment, it’s ideal for those who love to collect this kind of rare Colombian emeralds or to set it on 18k Gold. This emerald is a collector’s stone.

Gem: Colombian Emerald

Origin: Muzo, Boyaca, Colombia

Color: Vivid green

Dimensions: 6.75x6.66x4.98mm

Weight: 1.46 Ct

Price: 5460 USD

Treatment: F2

GOTA DE ACEITE / BUTTERFLY WING: NOMENCLATURE FOR THE FINEST COLOMBIAN EMERALDS

The finest and rarest emeralds are sometimes said to have an optical effect called gota de aceite. This term describes an aspect of emerald clarity that is associated with Colombian emeralds.

There is no better place to rediscover wonder than in a remarkable phenomenon that occurs inside the finest emeralds. That phenomenon is called gota de aceite (Spanish for “drop of oil,” pronounced “go-tuh day ah-say-tay”). A velvety interruption of the light passing through the emerald, the effect is prized by connoisseurs in the same way they value the velvety texture of a Kashmir sapphire. In both cases, the color of the stone is softened and the internal reflections are spread by numerous microscopic inclusions, reducing extinction and giving a liquid, velvety texture. Gota de aceite is associated with the Colombian emerald, and even in Colombian stones it is visible in only one in a thousand, mainly of fine quality.

The term gota de aceite is also known as the “butterfly wing effect” (efecto aleta de mariposa). Transparent irregularities in the internal crystal seem to be the result of changing and unstable conditions during emerald crystallization.

These conditions give rise to both raised hexagonal terminations as well as etched geometric depressions. After their formation, these growth structures are overgrown with more emerald. The growth structure and patterns thus formed are transparent and difluse the light within the faceted emerald in a manner reminiscent of a drop of thick oil, hence the name.

FIXED PRICE, THIS STONE IS ONE OF A KIND AND IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO BE FOUND.

For hundreds of years, the mines of Colombia have yielded many of the world’s finest emeralds. They were known to the Indian inhabitants prior to the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadors in the 1500s. After being introduced to emeralds in the spring of 1537 as a gift from the Boyacá Indians, over the following decades it was the Spanish who began to send them from what they called “New Grenada” back to Europe. Although emeralds had previously been known from Egypt and a small mining area in Austria (and perhaps from Central Asia), the material from Colombia was of much better quality. There are three main mining areas in the country – Muzo, Coscuez, and Chivor – located in two mountain belts 50 to 80 kilometers northeast of Bogotá.

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