Fancy Sapphires
Sapphire is often thought of as being synonymous with the colour blue: you can easily picture sapphire seas. However, sapphire is beautiful beyond blue, in every colour but red, red being the domain of the ruby.
Fancy Sapphire
All colored sapphires, other than blue are called fancy sapphires.
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FANCY SAPPHIRE
(This section updated January, 2002)
Although most people tend to think of sapphire as being blue, it actually comes in a kaleidoscope of colors.
Fancy sapphires get their unique colors from the iron, chromium, titanium and other trace metals present within the corundum, along with color centers.
Chanthaburi sapphire (Thailand) ...
Fancy Sapphires, Umba Valley, Tanzania
(Photo by ICA/Bart Curren)
Fancy sapphires
All the other colors of sapphires-violet, orange, green, yellow, brown and black and all colors in between-fall into the "fancy sapphire" category.
Additionally, some fancy sapphire is irradiated to produce intense shades of yellow or orange. This process, however, is not very stable. The temporary color produced by this method can quickly fade in light or heat.
The most valuable of the fancy sapphires is a orange-pink or pinkish-orange called "padparadscha" after the lotus blossom.
Fancy Sapphire
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Mined in East Africa since the 1950's, fancy sapphire comes in a vivid array of colors; there are in fact 67 different colors of fancy sapphire.
Sapphire in colors other than blue is often referred to as fancy sapphire. The most valuable sapphires have a medium intense, vivid blue color. The best sapphires hold the brightness of their color under all different types of lighting.
Other colored Sapphires are known as Fancy Sapphire. Purple colored Sapphire is the most popular Fancy Sapphire. The color is close to the blue Sapphires but is available in a much lower price.
Color enhancement of natural fancy sapphires with a new heat-treatment technique by A. Peretti and D. Günther, posted 18 July, 2002
AGTA and ICA join forces to announce bulk diffusion process on corundum by the AGTA, posted 26 July, 2002 ...
The most south-after color of fancy sapphire is the rare and beautiful padparadscha sapphire: a pink-orange corundum with a distinctive salmon color reminiscent of a tropical sunset .
Ramseyer at the University of Berne, Institute of Geological Sciences, Berne (Switzerland) have contributed to the design of fancy sapphires, ...
The best recent example of this is the sudden appearance on the market around the year 2000 of an abnormal quantity of the rare "padparashah" variety of fancy sapphire (its color is pink/orange).
Amethyst, topaz, opal, aquamarines, emeralds, rubies, amber, onyx, crystal, alexandrites, beryl, citrine, peridot, garnet, blue topaz, fancy sapphires, spinel, and other rare and exotic gems.
Hope Diamond: The world's most famous diamond, a fancy sapphire blue colour, weighing 45.52 carats. In the permanent display in the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC.
Non-blue sapphires are called "Fancy Sapphires" which come in a range of colors including: pink, purple, brown, black, yellow and green. Sapphires are a form of corundum (as are rubies), a family of minerals that are very hard and have high lustre.
The yellowish-green chrysoberyls (which jewelers sometime call chrysolite) come both from Ceylon and from Brazil. They are frequently found in papers of "fancy sapphires" or "fancy color stones," so called.
color is blue, and ancient Persian rulers believed that the color of the heavens was a reflection of the sapphire's color. This gemstone is also available in other colors like pink, orange, lavender, green and yellow - known as fancy sapphires.
 See also: Sapphire, Stone, Color, Gemstone, Gemstones
  
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