Red and Yellow…Emeralds?

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Richard B. Drucker, GIA GG

History tells us that emeralds are green. Gemology tells us that emeralds are green. In the late 1990’s one company started campaigning to refer to red beryl as red emerald, to market the rare gem…

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