0.46 ct Blue Aquamarine - Trillion

At 0.46 carats, this aquamarine from Mozambique carries its blue color through a trillion cut, measuring 5.7 x 3 mm.

Aquamarine is the blue beryl, colored by iron, and grows in larger clean crystals than its cousin emerald, which is why it cuts so bright. Mozambique's gem fields have reshaped the modern colored-stone trade. Its color was brought up by heat, a legitimate and accepted practice that the trade discloses and we disclose here.

A natural aquamarine small enough to wear every day and real enough to mean it, not a lab stone and not glass. Hand-selected and photographed by Caveman Gems in good light, shown as honestly as a screen allows.