Color Change Sapphire Value, Price, and Jewelry Informa on

Finished version of Emerald Cut Color Change Sapphire by Daniel Stair

Color Change Sapphire Value

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Sapphire Value via Gem Price Guide

Kashmir Sapphire
Cer fied origin. Untreated material.

Average brilliancy of 40 to 60%. Add to 20% or deduct to 10% for other cu ng. Prices for ovals and cushions. Add 8% to 10% for rounds and pears. Add
to 20% for emeralds and marquis.

Top Grade: vB 5/6, 6/6. B 5/6, 6/6.

Top Grade 1 to 2 carats 2 to 3 carats 3 to 4 carats 4 carats plus

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Color Change Sapphire Informa on

DATA VALUE

Name Color Change Sapphire

Is a Variety of Sapphire
 DATA VALUE

Crystallography  Hexagonal (trigonal). Crystals common, o en barrel-shaped, prisms with flat ends, some mes bipyramidal; also massive, granular, in rolled pebbles.

Refrac ve Index  1.757-1.779

Colors  Usually, blue, bluish purple, and violet-purple. More rarely, green, yellow, and pink.

Luster  Vitreous to adaman ne.

Polish Luster  Vitreous to subadaman ne.

Fracture Luster  Vitreous.

Fracture  Conchoidal; frequent par ng

Hardness  9

Specific Gravity  3.99-4.10; usually near 4.0.

Birefringence  0.008-0.009

Cleavage  None

Dispersion  0.018

Luminescence  Natural color change sapphires: inert to strong red in LW, inert to moderate red to orange in SW. Synthe c color change sapphires: moderate orange to red
and SW, may fluoresce red in LW and mo led blue in SW.

Wearability  Excellent

Transparency  Transparent to opaque.

Absorp on The ferric iron spectrum dominates these stones. In green and blue-green gems, rich in iron, there are lines at 4710, 4600, and 4500 in the blue-green regio
Spectrum  lines at 4500 and 4600 may seem to merge and become a broad band. The three bands described are generally known as the 4500 complex and are very
dis nc ve in sapphires. Some blue Sri Lanka sapphires also show a 6935 red fluorescent line, and the 4500 line is very weak in these gems. Synthe c color
sapphires show a line 4740. See main Sapphire gem lis ng for more informa on.

Phenomena  Asterism, color change, chatoyancy.

Birthstone  September

Pleochroism  Very pronounced. See main Sapphire gem lis ng.

Op cs  RI: o = 1.757-1.770; e = 1.765-1.779 (usually 1.760, 1.768); Uniaxial (-).

Color change sapphires are those that change color between light sources.

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