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Aquamarine

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Aquamarine is gemstone-quality blue beryl. Aquamarines can be found in the United States in Colorado at the summit of Mt. Antero in the Collegiate Range in central Colorado.

See also: List of minerals


Aquamarine is also a color, a shade between green and blue. On a browser that supports visual formatting in Cascading Style Sheets, the following box should appear in this color:


{| style="margin:0 auto;" id=toc align=center |align=center| Colors | List of colors

White | Gray | Black
Red | Orange | Yellow | Green | Blue | Indigo | Violet
Aquamarine | Brown | Gold | Coral | Crimson | Cyan | Magenta | Maroon | Navy blue | Ochre | Pink | Purple | Tan


Aquamarine is also the unusual heraldic tincture of the Jewish Autonomous Region in Russia; it is shown as a kind of dark green.