This is a parcel of silver to pale sea-foam green Brazilian Aquamarine crystals. This material is being sold as clean aquamarine lapidary rough but there are a couple of pieces that could be used as facet rough with some sawing and cobbing.

Most of these crystals are well-formed with clean faces and end terminations. Interestingly several of them show negative crystal hollows where other minerals formed within the crystal but have been weathered away. The pieces that look brown-tinged are only coloured by earth caught in the pits on the crystal faces and are not really brown.

This is the cleanest Aquamarine cabbing rough you will find for the money - it is pale but will make some very bright and transparent cabs as compared to some of the waxy opaque material that abounds. I was told this material has not been heated - if you prefer, careful heating may change the colour from green towards a more blue tone. Heating will not make the colour darker - it will only change the tone. I have not tried treating any of this material and do not know how it will react.

This parcel consists of 9 crystal pieces ranging from 4 carats to 14 carats. The smallest piece measures 14x11x10 mm and the largest is 35x6x4 mm.