The ancient Greeks attributed the emerald many interesting properties. It symbolized the loyalty and unconditional love. This bright green crystal, they dedicated to the goddess Venus, the patroness of love and beauty. The Romans attributed the emerald healing properties. Nero watched the battle through a large emerald crystal, believing that the stone sharpens and improves vision.

In ancient times, emeralds often confused with other gemstones, such as jasper, sapphire or green Smithson each of these stones could be a certain phase of the crystal, the final stage of which is the formation of the most precious crystal - emerald.

Scientists are not taking into account the ancient legends, count the recent history of diamond production from 1568. That's when the Spanish conquistadors began development and production of diamonds in the mines of Muzo, which are still considered to be one of the largest fields in the world of green crystals. For many years, the Spaniards or by crook Scouting have enslaved the Incas location of underground tunnels that led to the places of production of emeralds. Finally, good luck helped the Spaniards to detect these fields and begin to develop them to the Spanish court. Emerald is a fairly rare stone, over the ownership of this crystal deposits waged a constant struggle that increases the value of an emerald and did not reduce her even after many centuries.

Since the forties of the Government of Colombia has transferred the emerald mines in the state property, as motivated by the mining of precious stones in the country, cases of physical violence. Then, in 1970, the government privatized the Muzo and Koskues and created to manage these mines joint venture, which is composed of Mineralco Agency and representatives of private companies, such as Esmeracol of Koskues, Tecminas Lrda of limp and Tecminas Lrda from Muzo.

From 1986 to 1990 Mineralco has attempted to implement a policy of "development and production of emeralds more traditional way." At this time in the territorial triangle formed by three large deposits were found new small deposits of emeralds. Contracts for the production and development of emeralds in these areas have been concluded for the next twenty-five years.

Just like diamonds, some really large top quality emeralds have their own names, and under these names they are known all over the world. The most famous and legendary considered emeralds Devonshire Emerald and Emerald Patricia. Devonshire Emerald was presented to the sixth Duke of Devonshire by Emperor Pedro I of Brazil in 1831. The raw crystal weighs about four hundred thousand carats. Weight emerald Patricia, who is in New York's Museum of Natural History, is six hundred and thirty carats. Five more major nameless emeralds found in Muzo, located in the vault of the State Bank of the Republic of Colombia, according to the experts their weight ranges from one hundred thousand to one thousand eight hundred carats, one of them weighs two hundred and twenty carats.

The Museum of Natural History in Los Angeles can see the emerald weighing one thousand nine hundred sixty-five carats. Smithsonian Collection in Washington, DC boasts several fairly large emeralds of high quality, one of which weighs eight hundred fifty-eight carats and is considered the most high-quality emeralds from the now well-known. Also, the museum has several magnificent emeralds have been found in North Carolina in the sixties and seventies.

One of the richest collections of emeralds considered Iranian royal treasury, in particular jewelry royal court. Large emeralds adorn the magnificent times and the Pahlavi crown, necklace and even a throne Nadir. The weight of the crystals is between one and a half to two thousand carats.

The most famous jewelry with emeralds considered Crown of the Andes, adorned with four hundred fifty three stones (one thousand five hundred twenty-one carats), including Emerald Emerald - green energy nature   Atahualpa (forty-five carats), named after the last emperor of the Incas. The crown was made in Colombia from a single piece of pure gold in 1593 in honor of the statue of the Virgin Mary in Popayan. In 1650, a jewel fell into the hands of the English pirates, but some time later was found and was the most valuable prize of the war of liberation from the yoke of Spain, led by Simon Bolivar in 1812. At the moment, unfortunately, the location of rare unknown.

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