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Macondo Emeralds are so beutiful because their tone and color.
It is a vivid green hue, paramount to the quality of an emerald is a uniform and homogeneous distribution of color in the Stone.
Clarity of emeralds is marked by inclusions — typical features developed during their formation process inside the mountain veins.
Are different types of inclusions, which make each emerald stone unique, and also give indications as to its origin.
Fracture-filling treatments are widely approved in the gem trade for stones with inclusions.
95% of emeralds are treated with natural oils.
The purpose of treatment is to enhance the stone’s beauty and by moisturizing the stone with oils that will not affect its tone or its color.
The gem cutter’s art is arguably the most complex, but also the most important part of the process; it serves to highlight the color and brightness of the stone, by selecting the ideal shape and optimal facet count.
We place each emerald, or precious stone through rigorous inspection processes, initially managed in house or through our gemstone providers, if other than emeralds.
Then we send our emeralds to the gemological laboratory to be certified. This begins locally at the CDTEC or Zatralab Laboratory facilities in Bogota, Colombia.
