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the colorless beryl that's basically emerald and aquamarine without the makeup on.
means Goshenite is the pure, colorless variety of beryl — the same mineral family as emerald and aquamarine, but lacking the trace elements that give those stones their color.
from Named for Goshen, Massachusetts, where the stone was first identified — a 19th-century mineralogical naming in the long tradition of christening minerals after their type locality, with the standard '-ite' suffix that mineralogists hang on nearly everything they find in the ground.
- family
- Pure beryl, same mineral as emerald and aquamarine
- why colorless
- Lacks the metal impurities that tint its cousins
- old lenses
- Once cut into early eyeglasses and gemstone optics
- named for
- Goshen, Massachusetts, where it was identified
- hardness
- 7.5 to 8, tough enough for daily rings
for instance
sri lankan goshenite deposits — major commercial source in ratnapura district, sri lanka for faceted stones