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Golden-tailed Sapphire - Chrysuronia oenone josephinae - Бронзовохвостый сапфир
Reserva Arena Blanca, Aguas Verdes, San Martín Region, Peru, 02/23/2018
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The grubbing starts as a bag of dirty rocks. The Sapphire Gallery buys dump truck loads of dirt, dries it then put it into one pound bags. They include one polished and cut sapphire in the bag. The "miner" washes the rocks to remove the dirt then sifts the stones up and down then left and right to move the heaviest stones to the center. After about twenty swishes, you move the box of gravel to the sorting table. You pick through the rocks to find the "glassy" and clear rocks. The raw sapphire stones look like quartz among brown and black rocks. After about 30 minutes of picking through the rocks, you take your findings to the gemologist and she will sort and weigh your spoils. Our best stones were 2mm in size. To turn the stones from clear and yellow to the brilliant blue, they have to be heat treated which is putting them in an oven at 500F for many hours. We paid the $6 per carat to have the best stones heat treated and mailed to us.
Sapphire Star is composed of hundreds of spires, a form that Chihuly originally developed in the late 1990’s for a project in his native Pacific Northwest. In this sculpture, each element changes from a rich opaque blue at its base to clear at its tip. This intentional application of color creates the dense blue core and radiant effect of Sapphire Star. When viewed at night, the artwork seems to hover above the landscape.
Sapphire African American Model Posing in Black Exotic Costume and Body Stocking Portrait Photoshoot Philly Studio Philadelphia B&W August 1994
A VIS deep-cover asset, codenamed Sapphire, had been compromised and captured by the rebel militia known as the Ligeria Liberation Army (LLA). Intelligence pinpointed Sapphire’s location at a house near the Ligeria-Nagonia border region. Due to Sapphire’s extensive knowledge of the LLA, a low-visibility rescue mission was authorized.
Team 7 was tasked with executing the rescue operation. After receiving their mission brief and formulating a plan, the team began preparing their gear and equipment for the mission. Each operator meticulously checked their weapons and communications gear to ensure everything was in perfect working order. Ammunition was distributed, and medical kits were stocked.
With every detail accounted for, Team 7 launched the high-risk rescue mission. Before departing, the team took a quick photo to mark the occasion.
To be continued...
Note: This story, including all names, characters, and incidents, is entirely fictitious.
Himalayan Golden Sapphire (Heliophorus brahma brahma (Moore, 1857))
Family : Lycaenidae
Jayanti Forest, Buxa Tiger Reserve
Butterflies of Bengal, India
Robb Gravett Ford Sierra Sapphire Touring Car.
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Discovering what had to be done to the crystal corundum (Al_2 O_3) to make the deep blue colour of sapphire was not an easy task. The addition of a percent or so of chromium (Cr^3+ replacing Al^3+) was known to create the purple-red of ruby; but what could be added to make blue?. Professor Auguste Victor Louis Verneuil (1856-1913), the French chemist who had grown ruby successfully in his laboratory before he announced his success in 1902, set out to make sapphire. To him, the obvious additive was cobalt - the origin of blue in many materials. This attempt failed as did his following trials with a whole list of impurities. He was forced to analyse the chemical composition of a number of natural sapphires to find that all contained very small fractions of iron and titanium oxides: less than 0.1%. However, the addition of neither of these oxides on their own produced the desired colour. Adding them together though did the trick! But it took another sixty years to find out how this worked.
Both iron and titanium can replace aluminium in the Al_2 O_3 structure of corundum. If Fe^2+ and Ti^4+ find themselves in neighbouring sites. A photon of the right energy (2.11 eV ~ 588nm) can cause the iron to donate an electron to titanium to produce Fe^3+ and Ti^3+. Since the crystal stucture allows adjacent Al sites in a different direction with a slighly larger spacing, there is another (weaker) absorption at a somewhat longer wavelength. These two absorptions can be separated by looking though a polarizing filter in different orientations to reveal the blue/blue-green dichroism of sapphire. These charge transfer transitions are hundreds or thousands of times stronger than the ligand field transitions in ruby, which explains why such small quantities of impurity iron and titanium are needed for sapphire colouration.
The narrower absorption band at 452nm is due to a transition in trivalent iron (Fe^3+) which, similar to transitions in ruby, is a result of the energy-level splitting by the crystal (ligand) field: the regular electic field produced by the charges on the surrounding ions. This can be accompanied by weaker lines at 460 and 470nm - as seen in the lower two of these spectra. Fe^3+ also produces a strong double absorption in the deep blue at 376 and 389nm which are only marginally visible in these spectra due to the low blue signal from the lamp I use. The very broad, diffuse absorption in the red and far-red is thought to be due to divalent iron (Fe^2+ , see Lehmann & Harder, 1970, Am. Min. 55, 98): these are strong in blue sapphires.
The three sapphires shown here were acquired by me in very different ways. The rectangular cut stone on the left was bought in a junk shop in Eastbourne, UK for 50 pence in around 1970. Thinking it was synthetic or a glass imitation (as did the seller), I was surprised to find when I looked at it with my visual spectroscope that it appeared to be a natural, iron-rich stone of the type often found in Australia. The beautiful and perfect hexagonal crystal (10.3 mm high) in the middle came from a small-holding in Northern New South Wales in 1991. We had called in after seeing a sign by the road advertising gemstones. The farmer had, apparently, used his tractor do dig and prepare a melon patch by the house in order to bring in some extra cash. Amongst the debris, he and his family found sapphires and have made a business out of it. He showed me this crystal as one of his prize findings but refused to sell until I produced my Zeiss loupe to examine it. Taking me to be an expert (!) he offered it for 50 Oz dollars. I took it! The synthetic on the right was supplied by the Gemmological Association of Great Britain when I first developed an interest in the spectroscopy of coloured gems in the late 1960s.
Photo ID: 62644 Far Sapphire
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I was asked to make a special anniversary gift... with no brief except that sapphires, the recipient's birthstone, would be preferred. Ack!! Luckily I had more than enough of these little brios on hand, so I turned them into this eternity pendant, symbolising everlasting love etc etc.
v.01 is an earlier version which I re-wrapped yesterday because the wire kinked so many times and I hated the endings. Now I wish the photos would not suck so much but I haven't had time to shoot in proper daylight.
Photo ID: 67977 Saga Sapphire
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Sapphire has been with us at Freshfields rescue centre since August 2013. Here is her profile:-
'Sapphire was originally brought into us as a stray from P.D.S.A., but was returned after two years because the people were no longer able to afford her and their two other cats. Sapphire is a glorious, sleek elegant black cat. She has a definite mind and dignity of her own and will not put up with much teasing, so we suggest she lives with older children! If there is room in your household for an affectionate, beautiful cat with lots of presence, please introduce yourself to Sapphire'
Sapphire is a stunning young cat, although sadly being black she may have a while to wait before being adopted. Is there anyone out there who could take her home for Christmas? More information about Sapphire can be found at:- www.freshfieldsrescue.org.uk/animals/detail/sapphire
Padparadascha color Syn. Sapphire, 2.29ct, 6.29x8.27x5.20mm. Custom Rectangular cushion.
I seldom cut synthetic stones, so this project was something of an education for me. My client requested a pad colored syn. sapphire. After contacting suppliers, I found that there was quite a variety of pad colored sapphires on the synthetic market. It turns out that different synthetic prodution methods yield different color ranges.
This particular stone is a Czochralski pulled synthetic sapphire. The surprise for me was that the rough for this stone cost me more per carat than the high-grade natural Brazilian amethyst I bought at Tucson this year -- and it wasn't the most expensive variety of syn. sapphire! (The most expensive are the hydrothermal synthetics -- they're more than double the price of this rough!). Whoever thinks all synthetics are cheap throw-away stones should think again...
This stone is going to be set as an engagement ring.
I've let my romantic side come out with this necklace! It's fine silver with a fabulous 8 x 6 mm, prong set, emerald cut lab sapphire. It's a beautiful deep blue with flashes of purple. It's on a 16 inch sterling chain.
Den of Imagination - Your Miniature Painting Service
We are a registered studio in Torun, Poland. We have been in line of work since 2008. Our still growing staff of painters and sculptors is ready to work on any project you can imagine!
We are credible, solid and reliable. We work best with large commissions and we guarantee fast service.
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Sapphire-spangled Emerald - Amazilia lactea bartletti - Сапфировая амазилия
Reserva Arena Blanca, Aguas Verdes, San Martín Region, Peru, 02/23/2018
Spot-vented Emerald (Amazilia bartletti)
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The heroes of these earrings are the precious Sapphire gemstones. These sapphires, in pink, are in a faceted tear drop shape and so create plenty of sparkle. The pink is in shades varying from pale to deep pink.
Each teardrop shaped Sapphire has been wire wrapped in 14k gold fill wire and then suspended on a gold jump ring. These jump rings full of sapphires are then in turn suspended from 14k gold fill hand forged ear wires. These are 8 sapphires per earring.
These are gorgeous richly coloured earrings that are guaranteed to make you feel very special.
Length from Ear Wire: 1 in (2 1/2 cm)
Truth be told, this head was an experiment. I wanted to get a new doll that was more mature and really different looking than any of my other dolls. I really liked my DWC-02 head and came across this DWC-01 head for sale, so I figured I would give her a try, if I wasn't crazy about her I could always sell her. Well, thanks to Jointed Love's faceup, I'm overjoyed and the experiment is a big success!