GREEN SAPPHIRE - SRI LANKA

A beautiful green Ceylon sapphire mined in Sri lanka that has been heat treated. Amazing colour.

Good luster

Grading VS 

  Sapphire   is one of the two gem varieties of the species corundum. Although blue   is the best known hue, the gem occurs in virtually every spectral hue   excepting red. Red corundum is a ruby. Sapphire may also be colorless,  and it also occurs in the non-spectral shades, gray and black. Yellow   and green sapphires have traces of iron that gives them their color.  Pink sapphires have a trace of the element chromium and the deeper the color pink the higher their monetary value as long   as the color is going toward the red of rubies. Sapphires also occur in   shades of orange and brown, and colorless sapphires are sometimes used   as diamond substitutes in jewelry. Salmon-color padparadscha sapphires often fetch higher prices than many of even the finest blue sapphires.