GRADING REPORT PYO046
- Identification: Natural Unheated & Untreated Sapphire
- Carat: 0.46
- Shape: Pear
- Measures: 6.10x4.00x2.39 (millimeter)
- Color Grade: Very Good
- Tone: M50
- Color Zoning: None
- Clarity: Free of Inclusions
- Cutting Grade: Very Good
o Brilliancy: 80%
o Depth: 59%
- Origin: Sri Lanka
- Treatment: None
Certificate No: IGI 250668808
Overall Grade: Very Good+
Comment: IGI decided on 'orange sapphire' with secondary yellow hue, though I'd thought it the other way around, orange yellow that is. In any case, our images represent the color 100% as seen in person, a vivid apricot color without any green, as so often with yellow. No inclusions, big face - no window, and the color is all-natural untreated, just as mother-earth has made it for us. Any vivid natural color in a clean untreated sapphire is a miracle of nature; one can appreciate this best if you have seen (and participated in) the back-breaking work that is required under a tropical sun to dig out even one such gem per day. It is understandable, seeing how many websites offer hundreds of gems, to feel that they are easy prey, that they can be picked up from the ground, but down at the mines a whole week's team work may pass without finding a single gem that does NOT require treatment to be called a gem. This here 6x4mm yellow-orange sapphire is such a rare find, and it comes to your doorstep, from the depth of Sri Lanka's mountain jungles, fully documented and certified as the best of the rarest: untreated, free-of-inclusion, window-less, flawless, and richly colored sapphire big enough even for a pendant.
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