Sapphires, Sapphire Properties, Mining and History
Edwin Streeter: Precious Stones
Famous and Influential English Jeweler Edwin Streeter on Sapphires. He led a consortium against Baron Rodthschild for the rights of the Burma Ruby mines.
Corundum and Sapphire Mining Localities Mines
Mason County | Jencks Mine | North Carolina Corundum
George F. Kunz | Sapphires and Corundum | North America
Anakie Sapphire Mines | Queensland | Australia Montana Sapphires and 312 pound Sapphire of Jencks Mine Franklin N.C. 17th century Tavernier brought back the Hope Diamond from India. His take on Sapphire washings in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) A list of more recent Corundum and Sapphire localities (Afghanistan | Burma | Ceylon)
Sapphire References before 1600
More on SapphiresMore on Sapphire. We will add some more themes pertaining to sapphires here. Please bear with us as this is a labour of love, and very very time consuming.
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Oriental Amethyst = Pink SapphireImportant Sapphire References
Oliver Farrington was the curator of Geology of Chicago's Field Museum
of Natural History between 1894-1904. His Sapphires and Corundum chapter.
Castellani was a famous Italian jeweler in the 19th century Chapter on Sapphires
More on Sapphires -- External
Modern Jeweler has an excellent 4-page review article on Padparadscha Sapphire.
Pala Gems has an amazing article written by Dick Hughes on what constitutes a Sapphire what a Ruby and how colors can confuse you. A review article of the life of gemologist Robert Crowningshield , the one who wrote the famous 1983 Gem and Gemology Article about Padparadscha Sapphire, and later the 1989 article on the Hope Diamond.
Wikipedia on Sapphires.
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