SapphireHere we have a beautiful and hard to find orange Sapphire from one of the most productive localities for the material in the world. This is a fine little sparkler and is virtually eye clean with a standard "Round" cut. The color is rather saturated and the stone has been heated to help increase the color, which is a perfectly safe and accepted practice in the gem world. Orange Sapphires are RARE and having a clean eye catching stone like this from

Specimen # BOL711B179

Specimen #PREH31134

the twins are beautifully intergrown with sharp

It’s rare to find a pair of intergrown twins like this from Tasna

but somebody was wise enough to preserve this amazing specimen and didn't ship it off to the cutting factory

Keep in mind that only a small percentage of specimens from Austria feature such gemmy attractive crystals on matrix like this

This locality dates back over a century to 1896 and is actually still active today

An incredibly large "room" of crystals was discovered

cream-colored Stilbite

This piece is a good

a very attractive example of these showy and interesting specimens

which was indicative of the pieces that came during this period