Sapphire Natural Grass Green Vivid with yellow and green flash

Cotton fibers from the stone packing cases may be photographed on the stone.  Fibers are noted looking through the stone (not inclusions)

Type: Sapphire Natural

Origin: Dak Lak, Vietnam

Weight: 1.15

Color: Grass Green Vivid with yellow and green flash

Cut: Oval (Foreign Cut -nugget-style)

Clarity: VVS

Size: 5.7 x 6.4 mm

Treatments: No Known Treatment - natural stone

Genealogy: Miner to Broker in Saigon. B1 cut in Saigon.

Hardness: 9

Source: Broker 1 Saigon

Comments: Great color green in this gem. It has never been heat treated or any other type of treatment now common.

It is a shame that the bulk industries cleaned this type of material out to alter it. This color is a popular target for the bulk industries focused on Be-Dispersion due to how the material reacts.

That means nearly overnight the Saigon supply disappeared in 2005 just after this piece was purchased.

Cotton fibers from the stone packing cases may be photographed on the stone.