Occurence:
Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, India, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Tanzania, Afghanistan, Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, Malagasy Republic, Malawi, Pakistan, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), UnitedStates (Montana, North Carolina).

Appearance:
Sapphires are found in a variety of colors. People generally think of sapphires as blue in color, although they are also colorless, pink, orange, green, golden, yellow, purple and black.

Something Extra:
Sapphire is usually heat treated to produce, intensify or lighten color and/or improve color uniformity and appearance.

Sapphires were revered by ancient kings as protection from harm and envy. In the Middle Ages,
Blue Sapphire was worn in rings by the clergy because the color symbolized heaven. Magicians or
sorcerers valued Sapphire as a means to understand prophecies and to command spirits. Ground, it
was administered medically for eye diseases and the plague and as an antidote against poison.
Tradition holds that the stone tablets given to Moses were etched on Sapphire.