Sri Lankan and Thai Sapphires are both historically famous and highly prized, due to their vivid colour and popularity with Royal families, and more recently due to their amazing quality coupled with both country’s responsible and transparent mining practices. Sapphires can be found in many different parts of the world. Iron is the main transition element for Yellow Sapphire, and chromium is to thank for Pink Sapphires.

The sapphire's saturation and shade of blue is determined by the concentration of those elements. When you find a Sapphire that has been coloured by iron and titanium, it will be Blue Sapphire. What makes Sapphires Blue? (or Yellow? or Pink?)

It's thanks to the chemical elements present in the earth at the time of the crystal formation, that we have the many vibrant colours and shades of Sapphires that we do, such as blue, pink, yellow, violet, green and orange. This means that in their ‘pure’ state of aluminium oxide they are completely colourless. These vibrant stones are part of the mineral family Corundum and are allochromatic gemstones. Sapphires are valued worldwide for their unique beauty, rarity, immerse hardness (durability) and the fact that nature produces them in a rainbow of colors.

Our in-house gemmologists are here to impart their gemstone wisdom, and answer your most asked questions about Sapphires!

Colour of sapphire