Is Aquadité® treated?

No treatment is applied to the Aquadité® we supply.

What will a laboratory report say?

Chalcedony with inclusions. Aquadité® is the trade name.

Is “Aquadite” the same as Aquadité®?

Yes. The accent belongs to the trade name; both spellings refer to the same material.

Where does Aquadité® come from?

From a single island in the Maluku archipelago, Indonesia.

Can I buy rough or beads?

No. We offer calibrated cabochons, one-off pieces and matched pairs.

How do I buy Aquadité® in Europe?

Exclusively through Noble Facets: send us shapes, sizes and quantities, and we prepare a selection. There is no minimum order.

Aquadité® – Copper Chalcedony, Exclusively in Europe

Sea-blue to peacock-green chalcedony scattered with native copper, found in 2022 on a single island in Indonesia’s Maluku archipelago.

Calibrated cabochons, one-off pieces and matched pairs for the European trade, from stock in Idar-Oberstein.

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Copper chalcedony from Indonesia

What is Aquadité®?

Aquadité® (also written Aquadite) is the trade name for a chalcedony from Indonesia with inclusions of native copper, cuprite, chrysocolla and malachite.

GIA described the material in Gems & Gemology in 2022 under the title “Copper ‘Confetti’ Inclusions in Chalcedony” and identified the inclusions by Raman spectroscopy and EDXRF. A laboratory report will name it chalcedony; Aquadité® is the trade name.

Noble Facets is the exclusive European distributor.

Data sheet

The key gemmological properties of Aquadité® at a glance.

The story behind the stone

In April 2022 a bulldozer clearing ground on an island in the Maluku archipelago split open a rock and exposed blue-green chalcedony flecked with copper.

Gem explorer Yianni Melas (@gemexplorer), who had earlier brought Aquaprase® to the trade, identified, documented and named the material and visited the site himself. The island holds three deposits, each with its own character of colour and inclusions.

The name. “Aqua” for the sea around the island and the colour of the stone. “Aphrodite” for the goddess born from the sea off Cyprus, the island that gave copper its Latin name, cuprum. Sea and copper in one word: Aquadité®.

Two Aquadité® cabochons with copper flecks resting on a rock

Every stone a small landscape

Colour

From sea blue to peacock green.
Copper

Metallic flecks of native copper – the “confetti” GIA described.
Warm accents

Red cuprite tones that bring warmth into the blue-green.
No two alike

Every pattern is unique. We offer one-off pieces and matched pairs.

Aquadité® or a look-alike?

In short: metallic copper flecks in a hard, durable chalcedony – that is Aquadité®.

Working with Aquadité®

Cabochons. The inclusions show best under a dome; faceting works against them.
Orientation is the design decision. Which side faces up decides the picture, so choose the stone for the piece.
Bezel rather than claw to protect the edges.
Never clean in an ultrasonic bath.
Directional light brings the copper to life, in the showcase and in photos.
Warm metals pick up the copper tones.
Unisex. Aquadité® works as well in men’s jewellery as in women’s.

What we supply

Calibrated cabochons in standard and fancy shapes
One-off pieces
Matched pairs

We supply finished cabochons only – no rough, no beads.

Terms: no minimum order. Availability and prices on request. Selections against your brief, with photos; documentation and European trade terms on request; viewings in Idar-Oberstein by appointment.

FAQ

Request Aquadité®

Tell us what you are looking for – calibrated sizes, one-off pieces or matched pairs – and we send you a selection with photos. Prefer to talk? WhatsApp or call +49 151 54926966.