Heliodor

Beryl

7.5–8Hardness (Mohs)

Be₃Al₂Si₆O₁₈:FeChemistry

3Known origins & mines

Golden yellow beryl, "gift of the sun". Found in Namibia's Erongo mountains, Ukraine's Volodarsk-Volynskii pegmatites, Brazil and Madagascar. Ukrainian heliodor dominated the Soviet-era jewelry trade.

Known origins & mines

Teofilo Otoni Mucuri Valley · Brazil

Active mining · Major source

The eastern Minas Gerais pegmatite province around Teofilo Otoni is the world's principal producer of golden beryl — the heliodor trade capi…

Volyn Pegmatite Field · Ukraine

Active mining · Major source

Volodarsk-Volynskii chambers grew some of history's largest beryl crystals — golden heliodor and smoky quartz giants up to tons; wartime dis…

Murzinka Ural Mines · Russia

Historic mine · Minor occurrence

The "Siberian" color benchmark came from these 18th-century Ural miarolitic pockets that supplied Catherine the Great's court lapidaries.…

Mineral family: Beryl

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