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Nearly every emerald reaches the market with surface-reaching fissures, and nearly every one has had those fissures filled. Oiling is not a scandal; it is the standing condition of the emerald trade, accepted for centuries on one term: the amount of filler present is graded, disclosed and priced.
Most sapphire on the market has been heated.