1.44 ct. Sapphirine
Color: Dark Grey-Blue
Clarity: Eye Clean
Origin: Near Kolonne, Sri Lanka
Cut: Round
Treatments: None
Measurements: 7 mm
Sapphirine is an uncommon silicate mineral that owes it's unusual name to the fact that its color range can overlap that of Sapphire. Though Sapphirine clearly falls into the 'rare stone' category, it is a relatively durable stone with a Moh's hardness of 7.5. This makes it one of the few rare stones which are capable of being used in jewelry and admired as more than a gem confined to a case or stone paper. These are rarely over a carat - this one is typically dark in tone, but is totally clean and will even show a touch of the copper/orange pleochroism sometimes visible in these. Rare as such.