Royal Blue Sapphire

Royal Blue Sapphire: Quality Factors

Understanding the color of Blue Sapphire is a tricky aspect. Each shade comes with its quality variation. Typically, sapphires that qualify as “royal blue sapphire” tend to display medium-strong to strongly saturated deep blue tones. But defining a gem’s quality is not just restricted to Color. Therefore, during the overall quality assessment, other important factors such as Origin, Clarity, and Cut are considered as well to determine the best quality Royal Blue Sapphire gemstone.

• Origin

  - Sapphires from Kashmir holds a special reputation therefore Royal blue Kashmir Sapphire is always considered the best. Next comes, the Royal Blue Sapphire Burma (Myanmar). Top quality, inclusions-free Burmese Royal Blue Sapphire is rarely found, hence, considered the second-best option. A limited amount of Royal Blue Sapphire also comes from the mines of Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Madagascar, and Australia. Recently, Africa has also emerged as leading supplier of Royal blue sapphires.
  
  
  Blue Sapphire Mine

• Color

  – The top-quality Royal blue sapphires have a deep blue hue, vivid saturation, and color consistency. Sometimes, it contains a slight purple overtone which is acceptable. But when the color becomes overly dark or slightly greyish blue, the gem lands into the category of Midnight Sapphire blue. The excessively dark Midnight Blue Sapphire stone due to their saturation and tone that reduces transparency.
  
  
  Color Variation in Royal Blue Sapphire

• Clarity

  – As a rule of thumb, the transparency of Royal blue sapphires usually follows the same logic as in other colored gemstones. The cleaner (i.e. no or few inclusions only) – the better. Although tiny, microscopic small inclusions are common and welcome feature in Sapphire mineral family.
  
  

  Royal Blue Sapphire with VS Clarity Royal Blue Sapphire with Good Clarity