Green sapphire can occur in colors ranging from light mint green to dark forest green. ![]() Perhaps it is because green has always been an important gemstone color ( emerald, tourmaline and tsavorite garnet are a few of the important green gemstones) and green sapphire is fairly rare. Green sapphire was once thought of as one of the less desirable colors, but has now become increasingly popular, though no one is quite sure why. The wide range of colors in corundum are caused by different impurities such as chromium, titanium and iron.Īmong the fancy sapphires, yellow has been especially valued, largely because of its place as one of the nine planetary gems of the Vedic astrological tradition. Other colors of sapphire are called fancy sapphire, the colors of which include pink, yellow, orange, green, violet and white. ![]() ![]() Blue is such an important color for sapphire that the term sapphire in the gem trade usually refers to blue sapphire.
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