Gemstone Guide2026-06-30
Aquamarine: Meaning, Colours, and the Honest Truth About the Sea-Blue Birthstone
Aquamarine is March's calm, sea-blue birthstone, and it is the most quietly sensible gem on the calendar. It is gem-quality blue beryl, the same mineral family as emerald, but with almost the opposite personality: tough where emerald is fragile, clean where emerald is included, and a fraction of the price. Here is the honest guide to what aquamarine means, why most of it is pale and the deep blue is rare, why standard heat treatment is fine but the dark Maxixe blue can fade, how to tell it from blue topaz and glass, and how to buy and wear the sailor's stone of the sea.
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