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Sapphire Var Padparadscha

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Sapphire Var Padparadscha

Floater

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Description
Locality: 
Umba River, Tanga Region, Tanzania (United Republic)
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.1 × 1 × 0.4 cm
Description

Here we have a truly outstanding single crystal of Padparadscha Sapphire with a weight of incredible 3,14 carat. The crystal is developed as a floater and shows fantastic orange and slightly pinkish colour coming from traces of iron and chromium which makes this kind of sapphire that rare. This gem has definitely facetting quality and should be high valued for quality and rarity.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Sapphire

Variety Of: 

Corundum

Formula: 
Al2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Hardness: 
9.0
Formula: 
Al2O3
Hardness: 
0.0

Padparadscha

Variety Of: 

Sapphire

Formula: 
Al2O3
Hardness: 
0.0
Hardness: 
0.0