Types Of Sapphires Names

All of our sapphires are cut on our premises and are available loose or mounted in a custom setting.

Types of sapphires names.

All other gemstones are considered as being semi precious stones. These terms are based on old traditions from the west. This list can be seen on the extended gemstone list page. Examples of different types of garnets include pyrope almandine spessartine hessonite tsavorite uvarovite and andradite.

Yellow sapphire sometimes also called golden sapphire if intensely colored pink sapphire white sapphire describes sapphire that is colorless green sapphire purple sapphire orange sapphire black sapphire note that there are several other less commonly used variety names of sapphire. In addition to these varieties sapphires are available in a colorless variety called the white sapphire or colorless sapphire. Some more color varieties of naturally occurring sapphire stones are green sapphires orange sapphires purple sapphires and black sapphires. Its crystal structure may be a cubic or rhombic dodecahedron belonging to the isometric crystal system.

Garnet ranges from 6 5 to 7 5 on the mohs scale of hardness. Sapphire is a precious gemstone a variety of the mineral corundum consisting of aluminum oxide α al 2 o 3 with trace amounts of elements such as iron titanium chromium vanadium or magnesium it is typically blue but natural fancy sapphires also occur in yellow purple orange and green colors. We offer a vast selection of blue sapphires pink sapphires yellow sapphires white sapphires and other unique natural sapphires. Parti sapphires show two or more colors.