Some of the rarest Australian sapphires are from the Oberon area in NSW. This is a region in the Blue Mountains where patches of sapphires can be found here and there. Good ones are very few and far between so when a client brought in this 16 carat beauty that he hand dug one weekend I was mighty impressed indeed... it's good to know rippers can still be found! :-)
It was a flawless crystal with excellent colour and without doubt the best I have personally seen from this location. It was a superb sapphire in every regard, the type of stone gemcutters dream about.
We decided to cut the sapphire to get two gems orientated down the C axis for the royal blue colour I knew was in there.
I opted for my favorite Supernova Oval design which always works well in sapphires.
In the end we finished up with two gems 2.6ct and 3.44ct eye clean perfectly matched with a stunning royal blue colour that the pics only begin to hint at.
Two uniquely special sapphires from the Blue Mountains.
Some of the rarest Australian sapphires are from the Oberon area in NSW. This is a region in the Blue Mountains where patches of sapphires can be found here and there. Good ones are very few and far between so when a client brought in this 16 carat beauty that he hand dug one weekend I was mighty impressed indeed... it's good to know rippers can still be found! :-)
It was a flawless crystal with excellent colour and without doubt the best I have personally seen from this location. It was a superb sapphire in every regard, the type of stone gemcutters dream about.
We decided to cut the sapphire to get two gems orientated down the C axis for the royal blue colour I knew was in there.
I opted for my favorite Supernova Oval design which always works well in sapphires.
In the end we finished up with two gems 2.6ct and 3.44ct eye clean perfectly matched with a stunning royal blue colour that the pics only begin to hint at.
Two uniquely special sapphires from the Blue Mountains.
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