Emerald

🔍How to identify Emerald

1. Green color with six-sided crystal shape
2. Hard: scratches glass and quartz lightly
3. Usually shows tiny internal cracks and inclusions

👯Often confused with

• Green glassbubbles, too clean
• Green tourmaline
• Peridot
• Green garnet
• Fluorite

🧪Real or fake?

• Emeralds are almost always treated with oil or resin; this is normal but should be disclosed
• A flawless, large green stone at a low price is a warning sign: it may be lab-made or glass

💰Is Emerald valuable?

Value depends on color and clarity; expert appraisal is needed.

Typical retail prices

Fine, clean, untreated emeralds cost far more than this range.

Typical retail ranges in US dollars, compiled from public dealer and marketplace listings in October 2026. Real prices vary widely with quality, size and origin. This is general information, not an appraisal.

What changes the price

• Color: vivid, slightly bluish green with strong saturation is the top grade
• Clarity: nearly all emeralds have inclusions ('jardin'); an eye-clean stone is very rare and costly
• Treatment: oiling or resin filling is routine; heavy filling lowers value, always ask for disclosure
• Origin: Colombian, Zambian and Panjshir stones command premiums; a lab report names origin and treatment
• Lab-grown and glass look-alikes exist, and a large flawless stone at a low price is a warning sign