The rich green of an emerald is “the intense colour of life itself” and reminiscent of the spring season, a fresh, calming hue that has come to symbolise rebirth, harmony and a strong affinity with nature. In Roman mythology “Venus” the Goddess of beauty was associated with green and green is still regarded as a holy colour to Moslems across the world today.

Man has worshipped emeralds for many 1000’s of years. They were mined near the Red Sea by the Egyptian Pharaohs (Cleopatra’s Mines) and the South American Aztecs and Incas mined what they considered to be a “holy” stone (Pre- Spanish conquest) but the oldest emeralds have been discovered in Zimbabwe.