Three-phase digitated inclusion in an emerald from Malipo, China
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Three-phase digitated inclusion in an emerald from Malipo, China

Three-phase (liquid, gas, solid) digitated inclusion (zigzag pattern) in an emerald from Malipo, China. 

Some Chinese emeralds have inclusions very similar to those regularly found in emeralds from various deposits in Colombia. 

Here we can observe a gas bubble in a liquid (probably brine) and a halite crystal. The other small inclusions around it are also three-phase. ⁠

  • Micrograph: Franck Notari, GGTL Laboratories Switzerland, 2025⁠

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