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Origin of Gemstone – Brazil
Carat Weight – 5.24 Ct
Appx Ratti Weight - 5.50 Ratti + (Indian Measuring System)
Approx Dimension of Gemstone – 12mm * 10mm * 6mm
Shape / Cut of Gemstone - Oval Cut
Color – Green
Treatments – None
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Oval Cut Natural Untreated Brazilian Emerald Gemstone. It is a very
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Jewels.
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The Muso emerald deposits are situated in the western foothills of the eastern branch of the Colombian Andes and are distant about 96 km.(60 miles ±) in a direct northwesterly line from Bogotá, the capital of Colombia. They lie about 8 km. by trail west of the small village of Muzo in the Department of Boyaca, and embrace about eight great open cuts, closely grouped, occupying a portion of a steepwalled valley, that of the Itoco, also called Quebrada del Desaguadero, an affluent of Rio Minero which empties into the northward-flowing Magdalena, the great artery of commerce for central Colombia. Though distant but 33 km. from La Dorada, the head of steam navigation on the lower Magdalena, they are inaccessible from that point, and may be reached practicably only from Bogotá via rail to Cipaquira or Nemocon and thence by mule for 2 1/2 days over an execrable trail, nearly impassable in the rainy season.
The region about the deposits is intensely tropical, characterized by excessive heat and high humidity, with a rank jungle growth that quickly obscures abandoned workings and makes exploration peculiarly difficult and costly. The region round about is sparsely inhabited by Indians who live in squalor and poverty — modified descendants of warlike aborigines, docile and peaceable, even servile, speaking a Spanish patois.
The region in general is unhealthful; the natives suffer from tropical anaemia, malaria, dysentery, and other complaints incidental to the latitude. Work in the mines, however, is reasonably safe owing to the excellent location of the workmen's quarters and the medical attention and sanitation enjoyed under recent management.
The geological relations of the emerald deposits are well exposed in the great open cuts made in exploitation of the emerald veins, but the surrounding conditions are almost completely hidden by dense junglegrowth. The emeralds are found almost entirely in calcite veins that traverse a black, carbonaceous, rather intensely folded formation consisting of thin-bedded shale and limestone.
(Acknowledgement to Joseph E. Pogue)
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