1.75 ct Blue Aquamarine - Pear

At 1.75 carats, this aquamarine from Nigeria carries its blue color through a pear cut, measuring 12.4 x 6.7 x 4.6 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. Nigeria's gem fields rose to prominence in the 1990s and remain a significant modern source. Its color was brought up by heat, a legitimate and accepted practice that the trade discloses and we disclose here.

A genuine aquamarine at a size and price you can actually wear, the real thing rather than a machine-grown copy. Hand-selected and photographed by Caveman Gems in good light, shown as honestly as a screen allows.