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  2. Gems of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka, geologically speaking is an extremely old country. Ninety percent of the rocks of the island are of Precambrian age, 560 million to 2,400 million years ago. The gems form in sedimentary residual gem deposits, eluvial deposits, metamorphic deposits, skarn and calcium-rich rocks. Nearly all the gem formations in Sri Lanka are located ...

  3. List of sapphires by size - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka 478.68 carats (95.736 g) Cushion Blue Anonymous owner [6] Logan Sapphire: Sri Lanka 422.99 carats (84.598 g) Cushion Blue National Museum of Natural History, Washington [7] Star of Asia: Burma 330 carats (66 g) Star Blue National Museum of Natural History, Washington [8] Star of Artaban: Sri Lanka 287 carats (57.4 g) Star Blue-violet

  4. Gemological Institute of America - Wikipedia

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    The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) is a nonprofit institute based in Carlsbad, California. It is dedicated to research and education in the field of gemology and the jewelry arts. [ 1 ] Founded in 1931, GIA's mission is to protect buyers and sellers of gemstones by setting and maintaining the standards used to evaluate gemstone quality.

  5. Sapphire - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka 392.52 carats Cushion Blue Anonymous owner Logan Sapphire [82] Sri Lanka 422.99 carats Cushion Blue National Museum of Natural History, Washington Queen Marie of Romania [83] Sri Lanka 478.68 carats Cushion Blue Anonymous owner Star of Adam [17] Sri Lanka, 2015 1404.49 carats Star Blue Anonymous owner Star of Bombay: Sri Lanka 182 ...

  6. Logan Sapphire - Wikipedia

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    The Logan Sapphire brooch, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. The Logan Sapphire is a 422.98-carat (84.596 g) sapphire from Sri Lanka.One of the largest blue faceted sapphires in the world, it was owned by Victor Sassoon and then purchased by M. Robert Guggenheim as a gift for his wife, Rebecca Pollard Guggenheim, who donated the sapphire to the Smithsonian Institution in 1960.

  7. Gemstone - Wikipedia

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    Serendibite was discovered in Sri Lanka by Sunil Palitha Gunasekera in 1902 and named after Serendib, the old Arabic name for Sri Lanka. Zektzerite was discovered by Bart Cannon in 1968 on Kangaroo Ridge near Washington Pass in Okanogan County, Washington, USA. The mineral was named in honor of mathematician and geologist Jack Zektzer, who ...

  8. Chrysoberyl - Wikipedia

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    Much of the chrysoberyl mined in Brazil and Sri Lanka is recovered from placers, as the host rocks have been intensely weathered and eroded. If the pegmatite fluid is rich in beryllium, crystals of beryl or chrysoberyl could form. Beryl has a high ratio of beryllium to aluminium, while the opposite is true for chrysoberyl.

  9. Black Star sapphire - Wikipedia

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    Black star sapphire is found in Thailand, Cambodia, Tanzania, Australia, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Laos and many other countries, although supply is growing continuously exhausted, and mine yields have decreased. [2] The mines on the Thai/Cambodia border were reported to be almost exhausted of clear high-value gems by the late 1990s.

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