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It is indeed a pleasure to showcase in this occasion an ultra rare Colombian Mercaderes sapphire, it has a very beautiful lilac purple colour along with its excellent clarity and crystal, it shows a magnificent dispersion of light, the fancy emerald shape is perfect, making it an elegant stone for a pendant or ring, this is indeed the opportunity to get a very special and unique gemstone. If you’re the kind of user who loves very rare sapphires, this is certainly the perfect time to get one of the most scarce and rare sapphires around the world, the Colombian sapphire, we strongly recommend to set this beautiful stone on a pendant.

Gem: Colombian sapphire

Origin: Mercaderes, Cauca, Colombia

Colour: intense purple

Shape: Fancy emerald

Dimensions: 4.64x5.71x3.16mm

Cut/Polish/Symmetry: Excellent, master cut

Weight: 0.80 Ct

Treatment: None

Final price: 800 USD

Due to the exceptional rarity and beauty of this sapphire along with the extremely low production and extraction of these stones, its price is FIXED, it’s certainly a very rare stone which won’t be found anywhere but in Colombia.

SALES POLICY

Lunariagems offers 7 days full refund and return policy for all buyers.

Our Gemstones look very similar to the ones in photos, we use the best cameras available at the moment to capture their true color and nature.

Our Colombian sapphires are ethically sourced using artisanal techniques, only collected from the river beds, by “guaqueros” or independent miners, This deposit continues to produce in small quantities, with most material extracted from riverbeds using picks and shovels. Independent miners collect year-round and go to Bogotá to sell the material. The corundum mines of Colombia are located in the southern part of the Cordillera Central, specifically in the Mercaderes - Rio Mayo region. These corundum occurrences are found in the alluvial deposits of the Rubi, Guabo, Paloverde, Limoncito, Chenequeta, Cocal, Monteoscuro, Monserrate and Honda streams, where the material from the Granatifera Tuff is eroded. The corundums show surface features indicating transport, corrosion and mechanical abrasion. These materials are not likely to be cogenetic with the lamprophyric host, but are possibly crustal fragments accidentally incorporated into the eruption magma. The presence of rutile and almandine - pyrope as crystalline inclusions within the corundums, and the existence of augite, kyanite and hercynite suggest a metamorphic origin possibly associated with the granulite xenoliths found in the Granatífera Tuff.