Sara recently commented when she came in recently that a friend had told her she just bought a pink sapphire. But isn’t a sapphire blue she exclaimed.

Actually sapphires come in blue, pink, purple, orange, yellow, green, gray, black and even clear colors. There are even  some sapphires that appear to have one color in natural outdoor lighting and a different color in artificial lighting.

Rubies and sapphires are made of the same mineral, called corundum. When a piece of corundum is red then it is called a ruby.  All the other colors of corundum are called sapphires.

Sapphires that are pink-orange are known as padparadscha.

The range of colors of sapphires make for an interesting choice especially for those born in September for which sapphire is the birthstone of that month.

Rusell Oshita, the diamonddude

The Diamond Specialists Inc.

Diamonds Hawaii