There truly is a different color of sapphire to suit anyone’s taste!Ĭolor has the greatest influence on a sapphire’s value, and preferred sapphires have strong to vivid color saturation. The fancy sapphire colors are: pink, orange, yellow, green, purple, and violet. Sapphires that are not blue are known as fancy sapphires, and may be any color-except red (which is a ruby). In general, the more intense and uniform the color is, the more valuable the stone. Sapphire is generally known as a blue gemstone but surprisingly it comes in a wide range of colors and quality variations. Red corundum is known as ruby and all other colored corundum (including colorless, or white sapphire as it is known in the trade) is sapphire, although blue is the most well-known. A durable stone that’s designated as a birthstone for September, it captures jewelry buyers with its practicality and aura of romance.Ĭorundum is the mineral species that includes both sapphire and ruby as varieties.

Sapphire is one of the Big three of jewelry colored gemstones-the other two are ruby and emerald. This sapphire from Kashmir has an intense velvety blue color. Comprehensive CAD/CAM For Jewelry Certificate

Black sapphire