Colombian Emeralds

Emeralds are known worldwide for its beauty and quality, in addition to its great value, making them highly sought after worldwide. Many of these gems are from regions in Africa and are displayed in the most prestigious stores in big cities such as Paris, New York, Milan and more.

But the higher quality Emeralds in the world are extracted from a South American country, Colombia's emeralds are mined more beauty and quality in the world, for this reason has been given to know this country, apart from its export of coffee, now is a major exporter of emeralds.

But we can define an emerald?, Here we will see shortly, we could define the diamond as a pure carbon (C) with minimal amounts of other elements such as nitrogen (N) and boron (B), as much influence on the color and certain properties.

Its lattice is strongly linked by homopolar bonds, which provide physical and optical properties very special and high. Crystallizes in the regular cubic or octahedral in ways such as: the dodecahedron, the tetraquisexaedro, the tetraquisoctaedro and Disdyakis dodecahedron, also in buckets and buckets pyramids. Twinned crystals are frequently found as the union of two octahedra.

Colombia supplies 55% of the global market for emeralds, followed by Brazil with 15%, Zambia 12%, Zimbabwe and Pakistan 5% 5%. In terms of quality, Colombia has the world's finest emeralds.

A color identifying Colombia as well as three of its flag, is green: that of the vast prairies, mountains and nature reserves, the green painted by many of their fertile landscapes and framing rivers, streams and waterfalls, the green the Amazon jungle and the thick jungle bordering the shores of the Pacific Ocean.

In Colombia also identifies a bright green that is not noticeable to the naked eye and is swallowed by the mountains of the Cordillera Oriental between the departments of Boyaca and Cundinamarca. It is the green of emeralds, the most famous in the world.

Even with the quality and beauty of Colombian emeralds, now quite sure there are different ways by which we can buy directly extracted from the emerald mines in Colombia. Through internet we can now purchase these emeralds with full confidence that they are genuine Colombian emeralds.

Different pages on the internet are offering a variety of Colombian emeralds, Colombian mined and distributing them as important in countries like the U.S., where they are highly prized in these gemstones.

Then they are served the options at your hand and pocket, to refer to the best quality emeralds and beauty, such as Colombian, is just a matter of surfing the net and choose the Emerald of predilection, so that it reaches home directly from Colombia.

Besides this, remember that you will find a catalog with a variety of stones and designs, which will cause you to take a tour of the shop as if it were present in it.