Made Emerald Info

Simulated Emerald

This Emerald Jewelry is made with Emerald Simulant. An emerald simulant is a lab-created gemstone that beautifully resembles the visual qualities of the highest quality mined emeralds available.

Emerald simulants are especially created for the use of jewelry. It's qualities make it perfect for emerald gemstone jewelry. Our emeralds have a beautiful deep emerald green color, high reflective index, crystal system, hexagonal structure, great transparency and a great hardness of 6.5-7.0 on the scale of mohs.

Unlike natural emeralds mined from rock, our emerald simulants are lab-created gemstones. They are Pure Gems: free from natural imperfections, free from conflict and free from any forced labor.

All lab-created emerald simulants used by Pure Gems are high quality lab-created gemstones that simulate the best AAA premium quality emeralds from the top 10% of gemstones. They have only slight inclutions, are rich green, have a very high brilliance. This makes Pure Gems Emerald Jewelry beautiful and long lasting.

Simulated Emerald Color

The universal method for assessing the quality of any gemstone such as Emerald is the 4 C's grading method by the GIA. The 4 C's stand for Color, Clarity, Cut and Carat. By using the independent 4 C's method we prove that the exceptional quality of our lab-created emerald simulants. We start with the emerald color.

All our lab-created emerald simulants have the perfect emerald color. It's Pure Green color that has been evenly distributed color. Its color tone is not too light and not too dark. The gems have vivid color saturation and a high level of transparency.

Simulated Emerald Clarity

99% of natural emeralds have inclusions (flaws/imperfections) due to their natural forming process. Our Jewelry's emerald simulants are very clear and beautiful; created for near-perfection. They fall into the best emerald category 'type 1' of (near) inclusion free gems, comparable to IF or VVS on the diamond clarity scale.

Simulated Emerald Cut

The quality of the cut into a particular shape depends on the emerald’s angles, proportions, symmetrical facets and finishing details.

Our Emerald Simulants have been cut to near-perfection by master craftsman. With the use of highly advanced technology they have been cut into one the most popular emerald shapes. They achieved exceptional brilliance and reflection.

Simulated Emerald Carat

Our emerald simulants have huge carat sizes ranging from 0.7ct all the way to 5ct and higher. If these same carat gems were mined natural emeralds with the same color, clarity and cut, they would cost many thousands of euro's per gemstone.

All Emerald Simulant Jewelry by Pure Gems contain these emerald simulants of superior quality and optical beauty. Only a gemstone expert could detect the difference between the two. Besides their superior quality, our emerald simulants are much more affordable than natural emeralds and 100% conflict-free.