The ONLY Clean Beryl Gemstone from Rhode Island in Existence - Heliodor - 0.1 ct. VS - Cut by Scott Maier

Gem:  Rhode Island Heliodor Weight:  0.10 ct. Dimensions:  2.95 x 2.4 mm Clarity:  VS - some very fine silk (enhances brightness) and a few very hard to see inclusions.  Shows as eye clean Origin:  Narragansett, Rhode Island Discovered by:  Scott Maier and John Sassi  2009 Mined by:  Scott Maier Faceted by:  Scott Maier Treatments:  none Comments: in 2009 my then-mining-partner and I scoured a coastline in search of beryl, which he seemed to know about from old literature that was beyond my scope at that time (I was new to prospecting for crystals)  - But eventually, slowly, we scoured a long strech of coastline and actually FOUND a workable deposit of beryl -- it was the the FIRST discovery of beryl besides archaic references, and a single crystal recovered from a road cut during modern road workings. We mined several days a week sometimes, extracting small green and yellow crystals.  They were cool, but mostly they were pretty crusty.  Occasionally there was a translucent piece, or a