The beautiful rich colors of sapphire, combined with their high brilliance and durability and rarity, make sapphire an elegant and fine choice for any piece of jewelry. Sapphires, formed hundreds of millions of years ago, have remained stable, full of color and extremely durable for all that time. Unlike other purchases you may make, a sapphire is timeless and permanent. One of the few perfectly intact mementoes which you can pass from one life to another. People generally think of a sapphire as blue, but they are found in a full spectrum of pinks, yellows, oranges, teals, lavenders, greens, grays, whites and everything in between.
Sapphires exhibit more colors with greater intensity than any other gemstone.
At Black Diamond Jewelry, we offer well cut sapphires of every color. Montana truly has the only mining sites in the Western Hemisphere which produce gem quality sapphires. Montana's sapphire discovery came in the late 1800s and they are now considered America's finest, most valuable gemstone. Yet, most of Montana's sapphires are sold only in Montana as overall production is small compared to other parts of the world. Sapphire belongs to the gem family corundum.