Sapphire

Sapphire

Natural sapphire refers to a variety of corundum, differing blue hues. Although there are instances of this mineral with other colours. For example, yellow, green, pink, dark purple, black or colorless shade. There are minerals polychrome type, changing color, and star sapphires. Crystals with a color that is different from sky blue, belong to the category of fancy sapphires. The price of the mineral increases with increasing mass. This circumstance is due to the fact that the crystals of large size are extremely rare. Jewelry houses rarely offer products with stones over 5 carats.

In our catalog there are sapphires of different color varieties, and on their designated pages, you can find out more about the modern market trends, fields, color gradations, creating value, optical effects and methods of refining and diagnostics:

• Blue and blue sapphires
• Yellow and orange sapphires
• Pink sapphires
• Purple and mauve sapphires
• Padparadscha sapphires

Deposits of sapphires

The most beautiful jewelry specimens are put on the market of:

• India (Kashmir) - the field is closed
• Burma (Myanmar)
• Sri Lanka
• Madagascar

Blue sapphires of lower quality and dark color is mined in: Australia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Tanzania, Nigeria.