Colombian vs. African Emeralds: What’s the Difference?
Humans have loved emeralds for millennia. Emeralds were mined as early as 1500 BCE, in Egypt, around Mount Smaragdus, in the so-called Cleopatra mines. In more recent history, emeralds were mined in India and Austria in the 1300s. While Egypt’s emerald mines are now defunct and completely in ruins, we still find a large number […]
