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Sapphire Jewelry and Rings
We offer both natural sapphire jewelry and created sapphire jewelry in our designs. Natural sapphire jewelry is quite expensive and can be out of the price rance of most budgets. For a realistic alternative that is quite affordable, consider laboratory grown Sapphire jewelry. It is formed by a complex, time consuming process that duplicates the heat and pressurized conditions that cause beautiful Sapphire crystals to form in nature.
The Created Sapphire has the same physical and chemical properties as the natural gem with the bonus of being nearly Flawless. It is a genuine sapphire stone just created in a lab rather then being mined
from the earth. Saving you thousands of dollars and getting you the same beautiful gem. Finally, The rich look of Sapphires is affordably yours in all those rare colors of blue, pink, yellow, white and orange (padparashda).
Sapphire Jewelry by Style
Our collection of sapphire jewelry and feature many shapes of sapphire gemstones such as rounds,
ovals, emerald (rectangle), hearts, etc . . .
Sapphire Jewelry by Color
Sapphire is the birthstone for the month of September and for the Zodiac signs of Pisces, Taurus, Virgo and Sagittarius. Sapphire is considered as a gem for the 5th, 23rd and 45th wedding anniversaries while a star sapphire jewelry is given on the 65th wedding anniversary. Sapphire gemstone is the non-red variety of corundum (the red variety of corundum is
ruby). Its hardness is 9.0 on the Mohs scale; it is the second hardest natural mineral. Sapphire has been referred to as "Gem of the Heavens" Wearing sapphire jewelry is believed to promote innocence, harmony, truth, friendship and good health. It was also believed in ancient times that the gem of sapphire protects from evil and negative spirits and thoughts; it was worn during traveling, believing it will defend against illness of any kind.
Blue is the most popular color for sapphire jewelry, but they can exists in different colors, including yellow, green, white, colorless, pink, orange, brown, and purple. Padparadscha is the name for a rare orange variety of sapphire and it has a higher value than blue sapphires. Sapphires with inclusions of tiny flaws or rutile needles exhibit an optical property called asterism. In star sapphire jewelry, this is seen as the star shaped effect and is usually only seen in cabochon cuts. Heating very pale and colorless blue sapphires to high temperatures turns them an intense blue color. This treatment also improves the clarity of the stones by removing tiny inclusions.
A rare variety of sapphire that is known as color changing sapphire shows different colors in different light. Color changing sapphire jewelry is blue in natural light, and appears violet in artificial light. A similar effect is also seen in alexandrite type. Synthetic sapphire was first created in 1902 and is hard to distinguish from natural sapphires except by trained gemologists. Lab grown sapphires range in price a lot and smaller stones are frequently used in less expensive sapphire jewelry. Our collections offer laboratory created sapphire in our sapphire jewelry designs. It has the same physical and chemical properties as the natural gem with the bonus of being nearly flawless and has the best color. Saving your thousands of dollars and getting you the same beautiful gem. You can afford the rich look of Sapphires in all those rare colors of blue, pink, yellow, white and orange. It is available here in many shapes such as rounds, ovals, emerald (rectangle), hearts, etc.
Sapphire rings for man and women.
We have solitaires, elegant dinner rings, bold, wide band ring styles and more.
Sapphire earrings come in popular stud post and in leverback dangle designs.
Choose from our many styles of sapphire pendants
such as the classic elegant, basic simple, and accented fancy multi
gemstone. Earth's Treasure creates custom design Sapphire jewelry in white gold, yellow gold, or sterling silver.
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