Geuda is used to improve its colour by heat treatment.

It’s a semitransparent and milky appearance due to rutile inclusions. A common method is done by heating the sapphires in furnaces to temperatures between 500 and 1,850 ☌ for several hours, or by heating in a nitrogen-deficient atmosphere oven for 1 week or more. Sapphires can be treated by several methods to enhance and improve their clarity and colour.

Australia is a main parti-colour Sapphire producer.Īlso, White sapphire is a very popular stone to wear instead of Diamond as a 3rd hardness gemstone after diamond ( moissanite hardness is 9.5).Ī star sapphire is a type of sapphire that exhibits a star-like phenomenon known as asterism.Īlso, A rare variety of natural sapphire, known as colour-change sapphire, exhibits different colours in a different light. The name Drive’s from the Sinhalese word “ padmaraga” ” පද්මරාග“, meaning lotus blossom, as the stone is of a similar colour to the lotus blossom.Īlso, Sapphire can be found as parti-colour, bi-colour or fancy colour. Sapphires are mined from alluvial deposits or from primary underground workings.īlue Sapphire and Ruby are the most popular Gemstone in Corundum Family.Īlso, Orangy Pink Sapphire is called Padparadscha. Madagascar, Sri Lanka, and Kashmir produce large quantities of fine quality Sapphires for the world market. Sapphire deposits are found in Eastern Australia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, China, Vietnam, Madagascar, Greenland, East Africa, and in North America in mostly in Montana. Sapphire is a precious gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum, consisting of aluminium-oxide with trace amounts of elements such as iron, titanium, chromium, copper, or magnesium. WE REMOVE CERTIFICATE AND DETAILS OF SOLD STONES

Description Sunset Colour Natural Padparadscha Sapphir

Padmaraga stone