Unboxing Emeralds: Gemologist vs. Geologist

Today, we're diving into the gemology & geology behind the world's most popular color gemstone! Join Rebecca and Brittany as they check out trapiche, emerald slices, emerald jewelry, and even lab grown stones. Get science facts from 2 perspectives! Explore emeralds from Colombia, Panjshir, & Brazil. Learn the secrets behind how they form and how you can spot a synthetic. Plus, find out where they've been mining emeralds for over 2,000 years!
00:40 - Emerald in Matrix
03:16 - Trapiche Emerald
04:32 - Brazilian Emeralds
05:21 - Emerald slices
07:31 - Panjshir Emeralds
09:12 - What is an Emerald Cut?
09:42 - Type I vs Type III gemstones
11:38 - Synthetic Emeralds
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[@gems]

We wanted to kick off May with an "emerald extravaganza" so we looked at rough emeralds, loose stones, slices, trapiche, jewelry and more. It was hard to pick a favorite. Let us know which you liked best!

[@Jadeddoxy]

They were all pretty cool ngl!

[@reikiwithcary2682]

Are you kidding? ALL OF THEM!

[@princenhel4461]

the sapphire is have a price?

[@pirwzy]

Emeralds are my favorite, particularly the red ones from Utah.

[@OrAngeAnArchy]

I love the progression of the stones (from mixed rock to refined) and transitioning from one person's expertise to the other.

[@seazestyt]

I am a gemcutter so I have cut many emeralds so I was blown away with the emerald from Afghanistan, quite exceptional piece. Trapiches is one of my favorites due to its uniqueness needless to say the size and clarity of this trapiche is a rare finding.

[@a.mazurkiewicz9060]

👀🇨🇦

[@abduallah9222]

What about the emerald from pakistan ? They are best and cool too and i have too

[@SunriseOpportune]

"All the green of nature is concentrated within the Emerald.” -St. Hildegard of Bingen

[@junesilvermanb2979]

The Sibyl Of The Rhine

[@AmaraJordanMusic]

So few people know of her; she was amazing!

[@FeralFelineFriend]

The one thing I loved about geology besides licking rocks to test what mineral they are. A lot of my teacher's and professor's stories where convaluted ways they stole giant chunks of minerals from caves. Something about it just cracks me up.

[@baboono6138]

I study geology and we do all kind of illegal and kinda dangerous things to look at rocks. Everyone in my class has been electrocuted at least once while going under a electric fence and some guy a few years ago got his arm broken by a big bloc that fell when a cliff was hit by lightning

[@frozenyogurth]

I love how every subtype of scientists (be it geology, chemistry or zoology) are their own very specific breed of weird. It's the best. You will have the best time with these types of people 😂😂

[@baboono6138]

@@frozenyogurth we should stop fighting and come together as a bunch of crack heads

[@anthonyprice5708]

One of my professors uses the term "geology" as a verb. He claims the true meaning is "to trespass in order to look at cool geo features". So everytime we hop a fence to look at an outcrop, we call it "geology-ing".

[@MandyJane123700]

I kinda love the inclusions in emeralds. Makes them look like they glow.

[@tebbydear90]

yes! it's what makes them my favorite stone

[@BeeBait]

My 7 yr old nephew and I really enjoyed this! He is a "rock nerd" and wants to learn about garnets now, as they are his birth stone! We will await more of these videos, they are extremely informative!

[@gems]

That's great! Be sure he checks out our recent garnet video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIemomqjjsSsiK8

[@BeeBait]

@@gems thank you, I was looking through and writing down all the ones to watch! I think I'll make a playlist for him!

[@lonelyronin2428]

Aye, garnet crew!

[@Sunshine27234]

I am a Geologist about to start my trainig as a Gemologist. I believe I have the perfect base for further education and a completely different perspective on rocks, minerals and such. I am so happy to have found this channel!

[@Buttholeshots]

The geologist picked THE PERFECT nail polish color

[@brianhudson7822]

Another winner! When I am showing emerald I show how what is mediocre clarity in diamond is PHENOMENAL clarity in an emerald. It always seems that people want to compare everything to a diamond. This has always helped my clients warm up to treatments. I also explain that the amount of oil used to treat an emerald is so minute that it cannot be weighed. My hat is off to this channel for making education in gemstones so accessible. Bravo!

[@rogerhargreaves2272]

Loved the Trapiche, but the Panshir Emerald was stunning, almost like Tsavorite Garnet. The inclusions or Jardins in Emeralds are unique to the stone, that’s what I love, plus of course, their rarity. Thank you for sharing.

[@LordGertz]

I've never been a big fan of emerald gems but an emerald specimen in its matrix is beautiful.

[@Jane-ev5fx]

Thank you so much for explaining the Brazilian vs Columbia formation of emeralds! Great explanations! I have never heard of a better explanation of the formation of a trapiche emerald, and I am a geologist and GIA graduate gemologist!!! YOU GUYS ROCK!!!

[@gems]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@luball416]

It’s Colombia :)

[@blackswan5830]

Jane, What's your opinion abt Pakistan Swat's emerald ? How would you rate them ?

[@imari2305]

Welcome Brittany. Both my daughters are born in May and I've always wanted to buy them each an emerald. The trapiche emerald reminds me of an eye. I've never seen or heard of it before. All are just beautiful.

[@GeoEmperor-]

It is an absolute pleasure watching and learning about all the amazing rocks and minerals in your collection! Thank you for sharing so much Passion and Joy about Earth Science!! You are all Beautiful people and you make the world Brighter everyday!!!

[@marz0909]

Proud Colombian, I LOVE emeralds. My favorites were the Trapiche and the slice, aside from the ring Panshir, of course. Thanks for reminding me of the richess of my beautiful Colombia.

[@fantaverage3850]

I love how informative Brittany is! Definitely would love to see more of this duo!

[@flamencoprof]

Thanks for a very interesting presentation. I had no idea that emeralds were commonly not "perfect" clear gems. However, I can see how they might be valued for the character of the "imperfections".

[@chrism9294]

Years ago I saw courses offered in gemology and wanted to take them but my schedule didn’t allow it. I’m going to have to look into it again because I clearly find all of this fascinating.

[@nunyabiznes4471]

Fascinating video! Thank you for putting it together. I love gems, minerals, fossils it’s great seeing exquisite specimens and listening to experts explain them!

[@jlm1567]

Imperfections is what makes emeralds so pleasing to look at

[@HoboMinerals]

I love these ladies! So glad this channel has had such fun people to bring us informational content!! ❤

[@Zantetsukens]

Really love the Afgan one, the color and clarity is almost fantasy.

[@fionna909]

Im a rising geologist in college and i love this video! Its so informative and cool to learn about minerals and gems from both a geologist and a gemologist. The two aspects are very interesting!!

[@ThatOpalGuy]

I love emeralds a lot, but Brittany is the real gem here.

[@thegatesofdawn...1386]

Wow! I've seen several cloudy emeralds. The Afghanistan one is crystal clear. Beautiful.

[@lonelyronin2428]

I'm not sure how I got here, or why. But I do like when people of two different, yet similar professions come together to talk about/ bond over something similar about their professions.

[@harleyv1969]

Thanks for the tons of information ladies, keeping it classy as always 👍💯😍 'She blinded me with science ', loved it!!

[@rockcrazygal5166]

I absolutely love your videos. So informative Thank you ladies 😊

[@triggeredmother1558]

Brittany is so cool you should bring her back, also rebecca and brittany seem to get along really well

[@karphin1]

My daughter was in Afghanistan in 2004, as a civilian with ISAF. She gave me two deep green emeralds from the Panjshir Valley. Total carat weight, 15 ct. there is a fair amount of “jardin” in them, but there is some light in them. Got them set (they are oval, faceted, but have little “pavilion”). Wondering if they are worth much?

[@teddyanarchist1162]

Your daughter mimics your ancestors

[@darius1709]

@@teddyanarchist1162 💀💀

[@Crispr00]

@@teddyanarchist1162 THIS WAS KFNDODKDKKDKD

[@usumalcolm]

@@teddyanarchist1162 ooh pffft I about choked, I betcha she didn't catch that roast tehehehe

[@parisinthe30sx]

@@teddyanarchist1162 because you know her ethnicity? That comment says more about you than them.

[@mamacass8970]

Loved this love both geology and gemology I’m so glad to came across y’all 💚

[@darkgreenkid296]

Very stylish guest, trapiche emerald suits her too.

[@dawnmorning]

Glad that u talked about treatments and how important non and minor oiling can increase value. Great video.

[@gems]

Thanks!

[@fazalwahab289]

I'm from Panjshir, and the mining of Emerald has started again for about 3 months now. Hopefully we'll get to see some great quality in the markets soon.

[@Matty8x8]

Rebecca has such a beautiful voice! I could listen to her all day long

[@TheMurpleMan]

I could listen to y'all talk rocks ALL DAY. That was great!

[@timsexton]

Curious disciplines made more interesting together. Great idea! #1 by far was my favorite as the processes, interaction & layering were frozen in time. The pale jade nail polish presents nice on camera. Cheers !!

[@Jwine95]

i love how many layers of science overlap. I have a bachelors in physics and biochemistry, but it can be applied in both of these fields because it is the fundamental mechanics of the formation and properties of these stones.

[@AnonymousRaimon]

Oooh do tsavorites next! Or maybe heat treatment in corundum, that should be quite fun to see old and new techniques that the market uses around the world. Great content, rlly fun to see a more geological perspective as a gemologist myself!

[@jacksprat9972]

Great video. You two make a good team an compliment each other with your A+ knowledge. Please make more videos together.

[@homesteadaquarius]

Beautiful Emeralds! Fantastic information! Thank you!

[@aarifer3990]

I like how the geologist's nails are a greenish color

[@Lillyluvsanime]

I wonder if Colombian emeralds are the reason for Bruno Madrigal's vision glass being that bright green.

[@admin5086]

Wonderful information presented and amazing specimens!!!

[@gorgeouscosmos1774]

Your channel the best! And I especially loved the video on gemologist vs geologist view. Please do feature more such gemologist vs geologist videos on sapphire and Ruby.

[@bhutjolokia6990]

Those are beautiful gems!!😍😍 You both picked my favorites!! I bought some low quality emeralds with plans of cabbing them, they are pretty even as low grade. Awesome video!!👍😁

[@GarbageGobblr]

So glad I saw this video I just purchased a marvelous Zambian emerald specimen and I can’t wait to see it in person emerald is by far my favorite stone and my birthstone

[@emeraldblader4509]

i normally don't watch videos like this but something made me feel like i had to watch this

[@PhillipH-san]

Hank would love this channel

[@sstarjoyy]

This was everything I wanted in a youtube video. Please keep these type of videos coming! 🤩

[@confederatetearsaredelicious]

There is a KZbin channel about rocks. I've seen everything. Good for you

[@lasenoradelacruz]

As a stone enthusiast, I really appreciate your channel! Thank you!!!

[@earthexpanded]

Wow, great channel. Looking forward to learning a lot from each of you! Big fan of hexagons in geological features. :D

[@marionbradley6236]

This is perfect except I didn't see a reference to Zambian emeralds. Also, does JTV have any Trapiche emeralds for sale? I didn't see any on the site. Thank you so much for a fascinating video!! Love it! ❤❤❤❤❤🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

[@nhragold1922]

Geology is a beautiful thing!

[@FrankLeeNacty]

Wish I found this channel a few years ago over reading books and buying/selling gemstones and jewelry. Amazing information, new fan.

[@gems]

Welcome aboard!

[@coitmorrison1323]

Crabtree Emeralds of western North Carolina is a nice dark green stone...

[@allieeidam2173]

Just found your channel with this video ❤️ would love to see more Gemologist vs Geologist with specific gems again!

[@gems]

Welcome! There will be more soon!

[@Paglavc1]

Sheldon Cooper: "Geology isn't a real science!!" - i only write this as a joke, i love geology. :D

[@xCorpsemourne]

This was fascinating to watch. Gemstones have always been interesting to me. . . Emeralds are my favorite gemstone and I actually have been searching/wanting an emerald for my wedding ring rather than diamond.

[@Bennett_Cerf]

My grandmother had an emerald engagement ring and always got compliments on it (only problem is they’re more expensive.)

[@archishman4073]

9:12 ❤ three gems in that scene :p

[@parisinthe30sx]

Love this video. Please do one on the many kinds of opals!

[@demothesis02]

This was so awesome. Genuinely loved the whole video. Thank you both!

[@John081590]

I love trapiche emeralds.

[@NataliaJuliaNowak]

They should have mentioned about Zambian emeralds.

[@JEM871]

😂 Brittany’s reaction at 10:20 👀

[@AlexDuWaldt]

Wow, very enjoyable. Such great knowledge about a truly beautiful aspect of our planet.

[@tommunyon2874]

A girl in my third grade class in Los Alamos, whose father worked at the Scientific Laboratory., outdid everyone else for show-and-tell when she brought in magnificent samples of synthetic gems. It was only years later, when I had learned about LASER light production, that I had some insight as to what the synthetic gemstones might have been used for. One thing about my hometown is that there was no shop-talk in public. We might have known where our parents worked, but had only the merest inkling of what actually went on at the Lab.

[@danman3669]

Simply gorgeous stones! Love em

[@orenjaffe599]

So glad I found this channel, what an absolute gem (surely no one has made this joke before) ;)

[@NinaNooneknows]

This was very interesting, especially the difference in color! If you have the time, do you have a more detailed explanation of how to spot synthetic emeralds? Should we be wary of any big pieces, even low quality, being sold for pocket money?

[@movingforwardfco1587]

Arizona has them as well. I found some when hiking in a canyon down in the wash. There was beautiful pieces with the grey around the emerald with this in black and white stripped wall. No one believed me but it was true. Crazy ya can just stumble across such beauty when you dare to go off the beaten path.

[@shigefaizal]

I would like to know more details about those two gemstones called Carmeltazite and Aquaprase. Thank you. 😊

[@PTExp]

Wow, how much would a trapiche like that be worth? Looks like 3 ct or so?

[@zebnemma]

Okay cool to leran a new thing. I didn't know it was called "inclusions". But personally I like gems that are not perfectly clear, inclusions make it look like there's frost or ice on the inside and I have always been fashinated by the structure and estethic of ice! Cool to know what it's called in gems! Now that I'm thinking about ice, is ice formed similarly as a gem is but faster? I mean it's called "ice crystal" too so...

[@karengarcia8587]

All those emeralds shown here are so pretty and unique looking.😀💎💚 It's very fascinating to know how they get their green color🟢, where they're form and to see them both raw from the stone🪨 and cut/turn to jewelry.💎📿 Thanks for teaching us about them and nice video.🙂👍👩‍🏫🟢

[@kroberts8866]

The Nazari and Safi were working on reestablishing the water dam to be able to harvest in Panjshir properly. Unfortunately it never got rebuilt and all the clean emeralds we ran across on tour were always shattered and too brittle. A real tragedy under the scope.

[@hassaneshaghpour531]

I learned a lot and enjoyed watching and your excellent explanations. Good luck, 😍😍😍

[@latinogott]

For anyone that loves emeralds this is a really fun informative video. The two ladies phenomenal. But talking about Emeralds a little history could have been given to the audience like The emerald ship the Atocha found near Key west in Florida and also explains to the viewers about the inclusions called Jardins. Just the two factors. Other than that fantastic. Kudos to you both :)

[@gems]

Thanks for the suggestions! We try to pack as much info as possible into each episode, but we will definitely be covering even more about emeralds in the future.

[@coreygibson1467]

Loved listening to super smart chicks.

[@MeMyselfAndUs903]

@7:11. Where do I find the retailers you mention and what is JTV?

[@taramccormick4042]

emeralds have been my favorite stone as long as I can remember to the point as a kid I was disappointed that I wasn't burn in may don't ask why I couldn't tell you it just has but I love that I got to learn so much about my fav stone

[@Cate7451]

The trap each at was awesome ❤

[@EKimatH]

How interesting! Do you have any recommendations for resources to learn about chrysoberyl-esque stones, cat eye, tiger eye, especially the ones that are synthetic or imitation? How does that happen?

[@OregonSilverStacker]

I never really cared about rocks and gems and minerals and stuff like that until I started gold prospecting and now I find all kinds of cool Rock on the River

[@user-bv9vl8jm4r]

Good thing that music was playing throughout the whole video. I could almost hear them clearly.

[@a.mazurkiewicz9060]

I am a student at the gemmological association of Great Britain. I love this Channel. 👀

[@KalishKovacs]

The oiling thing is interesting, I have some screens that I look through to view a slurry refining process. And they get debris on them from time to time, and wiping them clean leaves micro abrasions that give it a haze when its dry. So I wipe INOX over them which fills the abrasions and makes the screen clear. Same principle as Oiling Gemstones.

[@DayTrripperr]

you guys have a great gig doing this show. kinda jelly. fellow geologist here

[@Vestal8]

Go Brittany!!!! You rock the whole world

[@jedihope6464]

So cool !!

[@HigginsHobbies]

The girl in the white t-shirt, her smile is upside down . Lol. . The girl in the black shirt seems very cool and really knows what she is talking about. Me and my son love watching videos and reading books about geology and we have even gone out of state to dig for different minnerials. We think this is a very interesting video, me and my 8yr old enjoyed it .

[@robintraina217]

thank you for all the info.

[@gemstonelover3098]

Thanks for a very interesting and very informative video. Thank and love you ladies.

[@wendylow5748]

I loved this educational video, thank you ladies you did an awesome job. I'm subscribing!

[@gems]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@marioalfonso3214]

Let talk about north America like Montana and Alaska They have really nice mines of almost everything except lition

[@Lillyluvsanime]

I was looking at y'all's site and saw that you don't have Painite on there. I was wondering if you would cover that one at some point? Painite is one of my favorites.

[@gems]

We’d definitely like to feature it in the future. We’ll see about adding to the site. Thanks for pointing that out!

[@Liza-ix4hu]

Please make a video more about RED EMERALD, RED BERYL BIXBITE 🙏🏻❤️

[@gems]

While it wasn't the only gem variety featured, red beryl is the star of our Gems of Utah video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6nSnYauh8uVosU

[@junesilvermanb2979]

The traditional classification in the West, which goes back to the ancient Greeks, begins with a distinction between precious and semi-precious; similar distinctions are made in other cultures. In modern use, the precious stones are emerald, ruby, sapphire and diamond, with all other gemstones being semi-precious. This distinction reflects the rarity of the respective stones in ancient times, as well as their quality: all are translucent with fine color in their purest forms, except for the colorless diamond, and very hard, with hardnesses of 8 to 10 on the Mohs scale. Other stones are classified by their color, translucency, and hardness. The traditional distinction does not necessarily reflect modern values; for example, while garnets are relatively inexpensive, a green garnet called tsavorite can be far more valuable than a mid-quality emerald. Another unscientific term for semi-precious gemstones used in art history and archaeology is hardstone. Use of the terms 'precious' and 'semi-precious' in a commercial context is, arguably, misleading in that it deceptively implies certain stones are intrinsically more valuable than others, which is not necessarily the case.

[@ironbrutesrage]

Emeralds are my favorite