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Natural Rough Sapphire Blue Corundum Milky White 52.10 kgs

Price: 15 million Dollars

Contact: Mr. +94 724525800 /+94 750758650

Location: Sri Lanka

Object- a boulder of natural sapphire (corundum family) wuth partially blue patches and white milky faces. The surface is rather water worn producing shining vitreous surface. The boulder has beenn transported to distance away from the source rock.

Properties –

Specie: Corundum

Cut and shape: rough, irregular

Colour: Partially Blue and milky white

Weight: 52.10Kgm (available data)

Transparency: translucent to Opeque

Measurements:

Length- 69cm (maximum)

Width- 26 cm (average)

Thickness- 40 cm (average)

Comments – the specimen is an exceptionally large for its type and rare occurrence for corundum. Partial whitish milky area contains ‘’Geuda’’ (variety of corundum) blue areas also display asterism due to milk inclusions in specimen. The corundum crstals aggregates, clusters in different sizes ands qualities have been recorded from Sri Lanka.

The specimen may produce several cobahon or facetted quality Sapphires in blue and other hues. Water worn boulder displays a pseudohexogonal habit and remnants of striations. The owner claims the origin as ‘’Balangoda, Sri lanka ‘’ which may tally with geological evidence.