White Sapphire

This 5.00 mm round Natural Sapphire, weighing 0.60 carats, impresses with its exceptional clarity, with no visible inclusions. Its pure white color and natural brilliance are enhanced by the professional heat treatment practiced to intensify its beauty. Native to Sri Lanka, this sapphire is renowned for its superior quality. Gemologically, sapphire is a member of the corundum family and has a hardness of 9 on the Mohs scale, making it ideal for durable jewelry. It is known for its thermal stability and scratch resistance.

All corundum gemstones are known as sapphire with the only exception being the ruby-red colored variant which is called ruby. However, the name sapphire is widely used for blue gemstones, but this blue is not to be understood as the color of clear sky, but all shades of blue up to very dark blue and even black.

Sapphire comes in a wide range of colors and shades.

Sapphire is a mineral that occurs as Al2O3 single crystals. The color is determined by impurities such as Fe2+, Fe3+, Cr3+, Ti4+ or V4+.It has a hardness of 9 on the Mohs scale, after diamond.

The rocks where sapphires have been found are called pegmatites, which have been transported by erosion processes and deposited in alluvium in the beds of flowing streams. The most important sapphire-producing countries are Sri Lanka (old name Ceylon), India, more recently the USA, Australia and Nigeria.