What Is The Best Place to Buy Real Sapphires?: From Mines to Markets

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Introduction: The Sapphire Stone Hunt Begins

Imagine holding a genuine blue sapphire—its deep blue hue reminds us the depths of oceans. But where do you find these real blue sapphire? The journey to discover the best place to buy a genuine sapphire will be as fascinating as the gemstones itself. If you are a jewelry designer, a collector or going to search for investing in a piece as a sentimental treasure, this is crucial to understand about how this stone reaches to you, from where and it has come to the gemstone market. Here, we will guide you to make final decision about purchasing a natural and real sapphire stones.

Sapphire’s Secret Origins: Where Earth Meets Beauty

Sapphires aren’t just gemstones—they’re stories which are written by the mother Earth over millions of years. They are found in the most unexpected corners of the world. These stones went under intense pressure and heat. Normally they are found on the Earth part of the world where volcanic activity is active or once it has thrived.

Sri Lanka Sapphires (The Ceylon Legacy): This region is known for Ceylon sapphires.

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Sri Lanka is a treasure region for sapphires. The sapphires from Srilanka have intense brilliance, sharpness, clarity and variety of colors. They are mostly clean even in low color while having outstanding brilliance and luster. In the legendary mines of Ratnapura, the blue sapphires are extracted from the mines since ancient times from the ancient riverbeds. They are popular because of their blue hue globally.

Pink and Blue Kashmir Sapphires: The Kashmir blue sapphire is popular and a brand in sapphires with their velvety cornflower blue tone.

pink sapphire color of Kashmir Sapphire is quite unique

This sapphire is extremely rare and highly demanded in the market. The region has romantic touch while remaining as an iconic in the world of sapphires. Kashmir sapphires are also popular in other colors such as pink sapphires, purplish pink sapphire from Batakundi area in Pakistan.

Madagascar's Sapphires Spectrum: Madagascar is producing a large variety of sapphires from llakaka mines which is one of the largest sources of sapphires. Madagascar offers large variety of offering a rainbow of colors.

Australian Sapphire - Bold and Unique: Australia’s sapphires have often darker. They come from Queensland and New South Wales of Australia. These sapphire stones are popular for their unique greenish blue prized for their unique color profiles. They are known as teal sapphires.

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Beyond the Mine: How Sapphires Make Their Way to You

The journey from mining sapphires and than coming to the market is a process. This involves many steps about bringing steps to reaches its full potential.

In form of Raw Stones: These sapphires are brought to the market in form of raw stones from the mine. Wholesale gemstone dealers sell them as it is which are bought by gemstone cutters or lapidary artists.

Cutting and Polishing: After bringing sapphires from the mine, these rough sapphires are cut and polished into beautiful stones which are usually ready for fixing in jewelry. Faceting or lapidary work on sapphires is an art. This art enhance the natural features of the stone by increasing maximum brilliance, clarity and luster.

Sapphire Jewelry: The final cut sapphires are set into engagement rings, sapphire earrings, sapphire necklaces, rainbow sapphire jewelry or other ornaments.

Where to Buy Real Sapphires: Your Insider’s Guide

Knowing where to buy real sapphires is half the battle. The gemstone market is vast. You will find lot of options from your local market to international global gemstone and jewelry markets. How you can approach these markets, here is briefly described.

Local Gem Markets: Going to mining area for getting gemstones is tiring expedition and require lot of money to spend on expenses. These markets are also the most busy markets and would like to sell in wholesale most of the time. These markets mostly focuses on raw stones display though they also sell cut stones. However, these markets need your expertise and keen eye to understand the natural sapphires. One can find lot of scammers also if you are not expert.

Online Gemstone Wholesalers or Retailers: This is a digital age now and it has made people easy to buy sapphires online than ever before. Websites like Folkmarketgems collect sapphires for you, test them, pass them and then present you after getting certifications from the lab. They do home work for you and always build reputable sources to get genuine stones. These market spends time and money to reach the main source in order to make surety of getting 100% natural stones. They also keep with them initial gemstone identification tools with them to take first look in order to observe Guinness of the stones.

Global Trade Fairs: You can also get natural gemstones from events like the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show or the Gemstone shows from Germany or France or Bangkok. Good quality stones are displayed in these events from the reputable sources. One can also get opportunity to meet online retailers or dealers in these events.

Luxury Jewelry Stores: Fine gems jewelry can be bought from luxury stores like also.

How to Ensure You’re Buying a Genuine Sapphire

There are so many options to understand sapphires but how can you be sure whether you're buying a real sapphire? Here is mentioned some tips

Gemological Certificates: If you are going to buy genuine sapphires, you can ask certificates from the popular laboratory such as Gemological Institute of America (GIA) or the American Gem Society (AGS). The certificates will tell you the exact story of the sapphires such as what is treatment done, what is their origins, color etc. Some under developed countries will hardly have international labs however they must have GIA alumini labs or their local government labs which can be reached to get certifications.

Gemstone Identification: If you are a reseller, you should keep with you basic tools for gemstone identification such as UV Light, Polariscope etc. They tell you the basic identification of sapphires. You must know that how they are used and in what way. Learn about basic gemstone identification here...

Ask the Right and As much as Questions: While purchasing a sapphire, you should inquire after its origin first, treatments applied on it or whereabouts of the seller. You should prepare as much as questions to get right answer. Knowledge is key to cope up with sapphire market.

Buying Sapphires from Folkmarketgems: A Journey into Authenticity

When it comes to purchasing genuine sapphires, quality and authenticity are key factors to keep in mind. At Folkmarketgems, we understand the importance of obtaining a gemstone that should not only be a beautiful but also it must be real and natural. Folkmarketgems take proud to offer a wide range of diverse sapphire stones collections which is available in a multiple colors, all carefully cut and polished by our skilled gemstone artisans.

Our Commitment to Genuine Sapphires

At Folkmarketgems, we are proud in providing 100% genuine sapphires gems. The stones are being sourced directly from mine and reputable markets while ensuring its authenticity and market value. Our skilled gemstone cutters and lapidary artists work on bringing out the natural beauty of raw sapphires while focusing and achieving its brilliance and clarity. If you are going to buy sapphires from Folkmarketgems, you can be confident that you are buying a 100% natural sapphires. We have faith on transparency and disclosure of information about the product. In case of market accepted treatments such as heat treatment is fully disclosed in the product descriptions.

A World of Sapphires: Folkmarketgems Global Collection

Our collection is consisted on the stones around the globe, featuring real sapphires from some of the most renowned sources such as below :

Kashmir Sapphires from Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Australia
Madagascar
Tanzania
Burma (Myanmar)
Sapphires from Afghanistan
Thailand Sapphires
Tajik Sapphires
Hunza Pakistan Sapphires

What type of Sapphires, Folkmarketgems Offers?

Folkmarketgems offer variety of sapphires in color, type of stone and quality. Here is listed below:-

Raw Sapphires for faceting
Rough Sapphires for Lapidary artist such as making and creating cabochons, tumbles, beads, carving
Raw Sapphire crystals for crystal collectors, wirewrapped jewelry, designing raw sapphire jewelry
Raw Sapphire Crystals for pendants making
Faceted Cut Sapphires for designing gemstone jewelry such as engagement rings, earrings, necklaces and so on
Star Sapphires
Sapphire Tripeche Cabochons for making jewelry or for collections
Sapphire cabochons, tumbles beads,
Sapphire Jewelry
Sapphire Crystal Pendants with Silver Sterling Hooks

Explore Our Sapphire Collection

Whether you are looking for a blue sapphire or something more unique, Folkmarketgems has a diverse range of sapphires which suit your taste. Our stone collection is sorted out to include only the natural sapphires, each one a telling the story of the Earth and pointing out to the Earth's natural beauty.

Discover our variety of natural sapphires today and experience the assurance that comes with knowing your gemstone is truly genuine.

Conclusion: The Sapphire of Your Dreams Awaits

From the lush green mountains of Kashmir to the busy sapphire markets of Sri Lanka, the world of sapphires stones is always diverse. By understanding and having knowledge about where these gems come from and how they reach the gemstone market, you should have deep knowledge to get a sapphire that speaks to you—one that’s as genuine, real and unique as the sapphire exploration journey you took to find it.

So, whether you’re in the gemstone market for getting a stunning and deep blue sapphire or an romantic pink stone, remember that the best place to buy authentic and real sapphires are those that offer not just a gemstone, but a piece of the Earth’s history.