Royal Blue Sapphire Quality

Understanding the color of Blue Sapphire is a tricky aspect. Each shade comes with its own quality variation. Amongst all, Royal Blue Sapphire gemstone is recognised by its medium to dark hue, saturation and tone. 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.

• 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, Australia. Recently, Africa has also emerged out as leading supplier of Royal blue sapphires.
  
  
  Blue Sapphire Mine
  
  

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• Color

  – The top quality Royal blue sapphires have 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 slight 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