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Price level: How Clarity Affects the Value of Emerald Unlike most gemstones, clarity is not relatively important in determining value of emerald. It is defintely not as important as color. This is because inclusions are so common in natural emerald and are not thought to impede its beauty. Good clarity is still desirable, however to the extent that light is able to play inside the stone, and it is transparent. While perfect clarity is not necessary to make an emerald exceptionally valuable, an absolutely opaque emerald is not worth much: in fact even the best color of emerald, if it is completely opaque, can no longer be considered precious. Here are some illustrations of how different levels of clarity appear in emerald:
There are certain kinds of inclusions or impurities that make an emerald more valuable. One example is the 3 fold inclusions or garden inclusions found in a few Columbian emeralds.
If an emerald has been made into a bead or a cabochon, you know the clariy is poor. (For more info on different ways of cutting gemstones, see general gemstone information). As a rule, only the highest quality gems are faceted.
How COLOR affects the value of an emerald
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