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Fire Beryl™ (Goshenite)

Introduction
 

	While most members of the Beryl family (commonly known as the “Mother of Gemstones”) such as Emerald or Aquamarine are famous for their colors, Fire Beryl™ is the highly collectable clear variety that displays a Diamond-like fiery brilliance.
Legends & Lore
	The traditional gemological name for this gemstone is Goshenite but at Thaigem.com we prefer our exclusive trademarked name Fire Beryl™. So named for its distinctive fiery brilliance, high luster and colorless purity, its easy to see why Fire Beryl™ has been long favoured as an everyday Diamond alternative. Naturally, at Thaigem.com our expert gem graders use years of skill and expertise to ensure that only the finest examples worthy of the name Fire Beryl™ are selected.

The name Goshenite is derived from the location of its first discovery, Goshen, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Fire Beryl™ is also known as White Beryl or Lucid Beryl.
 

Occurring in a variety of colors, transparent Beryl varieties such as Fire Beryl™ are an enduringly popular gemstone and have been used in Jewelry since antiquity. The ancient Greeks used Fire Beryl™ as lenses in the first spectacles and Fire Beryl™ was also used for fashioning crystal balls as some believed it to be a better conduit than Quartz.
 

Interestingly, pure Beryl is colorless, with traces of different metallic elements being responsible for this gem family’s great color range.
 

Since Beryl's color varieties are caused by metallic elements and pure Beryl is colorless, one could assume that Fire Beryl™ is Beryl in its most pure form. However, this is not technically correct as some metallic elements in natural Fire Beryl™ actually inhibit the colors that result from other metallic elements that may also be present.
 

Apart from Fire Beryl™, gemstone color varieties that belong to the Beryl family with specific names are Emerald, Morganite, Heliodor, Bixbite and Aquamarine.
 

Either faceted or cut as a cabochon to display Asterism (also known as the Star Effect this is a reflection effect that appears as two or more intersecting bands of light across the surface of a gem) or Chatoyancy (also known as the Cat’s Eye Effect this is a reflection effect that appears as a single bright band of light across the surface of a gemstone), Fire Beryl™ is an extremely durable (i.e. hardness of 7.5 – 8) gemstone that facets and polishes well.
 

Fire Beryl™ is famous for its perfect, six-sided prismatic hexagon crystals that usually occur individually. These are often enormous and some 30-foot (8 meter), well-crystallized examples are known to have existed.
 

While all Beryl varieties, including Fire Beryl™, can be faceted into various gem cuts, massive chunks of transparent Beryl, usually Morganite and Heliodor, are sometimes carved into ornamental figures.