Super Cornflower Blue to Vibrant Yellowish Green Sapphire Facet Rough from Antan Nigeria! This is some lovely material we have and we have established mine direct links to bring it to you at ROCK BOTTOM prices! The material is running roughly 60% or so medium to top facet grade. Please note that many stones do have at least minor inclusions as this lot was put together of material that didn't fall into Top Quality Facet Rough for the Most Part. Most stones are VERY gemmy but will need to be oriented and cobbed to get top quality Facet Rough out. Many inclusions are cosmetic and should facet out or mask up with relative ease. This is one of the best values we currently have up and we are confident that our prices will not be matched on this material as most Nigerians in Nigeria are charging $10+ per gram for trashy Sapphire!

This material is a mix of colors as is indicative of the above pictures and most stones run from 2 to 5 or so carats! Overall our assessment is that this material is good to cut stones from about 1 to 2.5 carats with some stones that will cut larger. As a whole the material is generally a Royal to Dark Kashmir blue with many stones having the Greenish overtone down one axis and some stones having color banding common for Corundum. There are some neat bicolors in here with yellow and blue combinations and there are some very usual lemon greens in here like I have never seen before.

Please note the following: We just got a new shipment of this material in and almost all of it is already gone. In addition, production is at a standstill and prices at the mines have gone above what we are selling the material for at the moment. As a result of these events we do not know if we will be getting additional material in stock at the same price once this is gone. We have a limited amount of this material on hand so don't miss your chance to pick some up. Production is relatively low for this grade material and it takes us roughly 2+ months worth of mining to acquire 1 kilo of clean rough during the mining season much less the rainy season.  We auctioned off a few of these pieces on Ebay and were averaging about $10-25.00 or so per carat and our bidders have raved about the material! This is ideal material for resale and/or cutting! Please don't miss out on this as it will be quite some time before we get our next batch in if at all.

1. Nigeria is currently producing Sapphire at three different sites. This material is from Antan and we are hopeful of getting additional material from different locations as the demand for the rough becomes evident. We are currently working with mine holders in Tanzania to acquire some nice East African Sapphire Rough in the the future!