Morganite is a beautiful pastel gem that is little known and underrated. This pretty pink gemstone is rarely seen offered for sale in standard jewelry stores. For those who do know about it, it is rare enough that the stone is normally considered as collector’s type of gemstone. Morganite is a pale to pastel pink member of the beryl family. While it is not a common gemstone, it is a gemstone that is much in demand. Because of its light color, it is not often seen in small sizes, but luckily many pink Beryl crystals are often medium to large, and so good-sized morganite gemstones are cut. As it always is with light-colored stones, the more richly colored specimens are in greater demand. Because of their greater depth, larger stones always show off their color better. The color of morganite is usually a soft pink, but warmer salmon pink tones are also common in this gemstone. It is colored by very small traces of the element manganese, which is incorporated in the crystal structure. Sometimes Morganite it treated with a light heating to remove the salmon or orangy tone, giving only the light pink color.