Beryl Goshenite

Goshenite is the pure, colorless form of beryl. Goshenite is sometimes coated with a green foil to resemble an emerald. Goshenite derives its name from the town of Goshen in Massachusetts, where it was first found.

It is a hard and transparent gemstone. The gemstone is found in the regions of North and South America (especially Colombia), Northern Europe, East Africa, South Africa, and the Himalayan mountains in Asia.

Beryl is a translucent glassy mineral, essentially aluminum beryllium silicate, occurring in hexagonal prisms and constituting the chief source of beryllium. Beryl derives its name from the ancient Greek word "berullos" meaning crystal. The name Beryl as such originally is rooted in India. Based on the Sanskrit word "veruliyam", came the Greek word "beryllos". The beryl varieties get their rich colors and hues due to the different coloring elements. Aquamarine, Emerald and Morganite are all Beryls - just like Golden Beryl, gold-green Heliodor and colorless Goshenite. No matter whether blue, green, yellow, colorless or pink, their chemical and physical consistence is basically identical, they only differ in color.

Beryls are popular gemstones with high brilliance and hardness of 7.5. The hexagonal crystal structure Beryls with usually vertically striped surfaces are found in the South America, Middle and Western Africa, Madagascar, Russia, Ukraine.

The sea-blue color of Beryl comes due to iron and is the known as most popular gemstones, Aquamarine. Emerald is a valuable Beryl that owes its color to chromium or vanadium, which make it show the maybe most beautiful and brightest green of all respective gemstones coining a class all by itself, emerald-green. Manganese lends a soft pink, rose or peach color to the stone that is called Morganite. Small traces of uranium are sufficient to lend colorless Beryl a more or less satiated golden color - typical characteristic of Golden Beryl. Iron and uranium in combination are responsible for the fresh and invigorating green-yellow of another Beryl variety, of Heliodor. Goshenite is the colorless beryl that is found in Goshen in Massachusetts, USA.