Gem: Sapphire
Weight: 0.47 ct.
Dimensions: 4.6 mm round
Clarity: VVS
Origin: Songea, Tanzania
Treatments: None, natural gem
Comments:
This blue gem is a unique kind of blue - Its a kind of medium strength blue, that doesn't close out the stone with darkness!! It's an OPEN blue, amazingly. Thats a hard thing to find. The pictures actually don't show it as blue as it seems in person. I suspect that the stone is actually very slightly bicolor - almost all blue, but there's a dash of green inthere somewhere, that shows up occasionally, and I would say especially iin strong sunlight it'll catch a little extra green. In more neutral or medium strength light, the blue is POPPIN.
It's a great size to be a solitaire, though it would also look good paired with some other earthy tones.
Jump on this open blue color while you can -- only one out of a great many sapphires gets this blue without darkening everything up.