QUALITY SAPPHIRE GEMSTONES

ORIGIN MONTANA

SLICED POLISHED

STUNNING NATURAL FORMATIONS IN BEAUTIFUL COLOURS

TREATMENT-NONE

A beautiful sapphire which has been mined in Montana and sliced up to show the different colours in the core.

Sapphire is one of the two gem varieties of the species corundum. Although blue is the best known hue, the gem occurs in virtually every spectral hue excepting red as the red corundum is known as ruby. Sapphire may also be colorless, and it also occurs in the non-spectral shades, gray and black. Yellow and green sapphires have traces of iron that gives them their color. Pink sapphires have a trace of the element chromium and the deeper the color pink the higher their monetary value as long as the color is going toward the red of rubies. Sapphires also occur in shades of orange and brown, and colorless sapphires are sometimes used as diamond substitutes in jewelry. Salmon-colorpadparadschasapphires often fetch higher prices than many of even the finest blue sapphires.