by Elsa Vanier | Oct 11, 2012 | Gems, Metals and Materials
It was when I saw this beautiful collection of green and gold-coloured stones at the National History Museum in New York that I had the idea of paying tribute to a little-known stone: chrysoberyl. Its strange name comes from the Greek khrusos (golden) and...
by Elsa Vanier | Gems, metals and materials
The term comes from the Latin citrus which designates the lemon, by reference to its colour. But then it is a very ripe lemon because the citrine is of a yellow a little ochre and only the citrines known as "lemon" are adorned with a yellow acidulous, lemon. Its...
