Nice lot of Cornflower Blue to Yellowish Green Sapphire Faceting & Cabbing Rough from Lodwar, Kenya! This lot is a mix of Faceting and Cabbing Rough with the lot being roughly evenly divided between the two. Most of the smaller material is very clean while the larger pieces tend to be gemmy but need to be cobbed & sawed up to take out all the Faceting Rough potential from the parcel. The color on this material is similar to what we typically sell from Nigeria and there really is no way to distinguish between the two from our general analysis on physical features.

We didn't clean and cob the lot up and therefore there are many stones in here with inclusions, feathers and/or silk that you will need to either cob or saw out. The price we have on this is reflective of the amount of time that was invested in cleaning the lot up and we don't think there is anywhere you can get this caliber material at a better price! 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 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.

1. Over the last few years we have seen Sapphire available through Tanzania similar to the typical material produced in Nigeria and Australia. This lot represents a sample of the material. We seem to have narrowed down the origin to Lodwar, Kenya; however, that is a major city in Kenya and the material is most likely produced in an area with close proximity to the location or quite possible not. We have also seen material similar to this produced in Burundi; however, the origin of that material is not certain either.