Sri Lankan Sapphire Adventure

On my date, me as a jewellery designer making some research about coloured gemstones in Dubai, I found that The King Salomon and more sacred important people of the history considered The Ceylon Sapphire as the most beautiful and precious sapphires in the world, The King Salomon & Friends asked for Sapphires and their servants embarked the journey to Sri Lanka to bring them their favourite sapphires on the world (Very special, right?), so when you read something in the bible and the sapphire is involved in your reading, probably the origin of the sapphire is Sri Lanka

Then, I felt really captivated by that history, besides I realized that Sri Lanka is really close to Dubai, and I said, why not? There is no reason to abandon the idea of ​​going to sri lanka, hey, I just can go!

Sri Lanka: The Gem Island

My first impression of Sri Lanka is its impressive trees because of the large roots they have that tend to come out of the ground and cover a large space in the place where they are planted.

People's eyes tend to be very big and food very spicy, especially the treatment of women is very respectful and the nobility is very noticeable, however, in a moment, when things got to be serious and bussiness really started, I had to adopt the " Indian fashion style" which is very comfortable (I must accept it) that way I did achieve to feel myself more appropriate for the environment there, because

American fashion is very different to them, in Asia the way we women show our femininity style is through our manners, our sweetness, our subtle essence, the strength of our confidence as a woman is very important to feel respected.

Buying Sapphires From Sri Lanka

Firts, it's important to take a trip from Colombo that is the capital city to Ratnapura that is the place of mining

Already being in Ratnapura, there are lots of shops, where you can buy lost sapphires and lots of sapphires as well.

In this place you just can feel impressive because of the wide range of colours the sapphire has so you can choose and acquire your favorite tone, in this place you discover that the most beautiful tone is not the dark tone of blue sapphire because there is the "medium tone" which is so soft, so velvety plus very very bright! In contrast to the darkest tone that is a bit expensive but doesn't shine a lot like the "medium tone" which is the normal tone for it, therefore speaking wisely the therm "medium tone" is incorrect, why? Because this tone is the normal tone of the stone, and when you watch a stone like this, the name is Ceylon Sapphire, it has no comparison.

There is also cutters inside the shops, so that when the miners have the rough stones just send them to be cut immediately and start the work. The stones produced there are cut immediately and sold immediately. I did pay the trip to go to Sri Lanka to avoid the middlemen, you can imagine from Asia to South America probably a few hands could touch the Sapphires, as a jeweler I don't like the looks of people who have no intention of buying, I take care of the precious stones that I have as something very precious, because in fact it is

Sapphire Mining

As we can cleary know, The Sapphires that King Salomon and more important people wore in ancient times, are the Ceylon Sapphires, therefore Sri Lanka is the oldest deposit of Sapphires.

It's impressive how abundant the gemstones are there, the abundance of stones is so great that it is very easy for miners to find them.

When you are on the road you can also watch miners taking precious stones from the rivers (there are rivers in abundance) besides the places that are specifically designated for mining where there is an environmentally friendly manner to extract the gemstones from earth, only natural materials such as wood and ferns from the region are used in the structure of mining spaces.

What I like most is that they don't have the need to destroy the planet on a large scale like how it is to find diamonds, I also like that miners are generally normal people who are working hard and not huge companies that are in charge of monopolizing the system and darken it a little by inflating prices, perhaps sapphires are not as popular as diamonds, but I feel comfortable with that, I like to know that my money is well directed.