Argentium® Silver White Sapphire Ring Handmade by Jewelry Artist Lisa Ramos. This design features a sparkling white sapphire set in sculpted Argentium silver, highlighting the brilliance and durability of sapphire.

Interesting Facts About Sapphire Gemstones

1. A sapphire is both the modern and traditional birthstone for the month of September.
2. Sapphires come in a variety of rainbow colors—yellow, pink, white, blue, and black—but not red.
3. Sapphires are credited in folklore as being sacred and conveying wisdom, prophecy, and divine favor.
4. In 1880, sapphire was first discovered in the Himalayas in Kashmir.
5. A sapphire is one of the four precious gemstones.
6. A sapphire gemstone is rated a 9 on the Mohs scale , which defines a gemstone’s durability based on a scale from 1 through 10.
7. The rarest color sapphires are padparadscha and cornflower blue.
8. A sapphire is a rock-forming mineral referred to as a corundum—a crystalline form of aluminum oxide containing traces of iron, titanium, vanadium, and chromium. Sapphires take millions of years to form.
9. The Star of Adam—an oval blue star sapphire weighing 1,404.49 carats—is one of the largest sapphires on record.
10. Most sapphires found in the United States come from Montana.
11. Blue is the most common color sapphire.
12. The most highly prized sapphire gemstones come from Kashmir, high up in the Himalayas.
13. A real sapphire will reflect the same color as the stone if you take a flashlight to the gemstone in total darkness—a fake sapphire displays other color reflections.
14. A mermaid sapphire is the color teal.
15. Only a diamond or moissanite can scratch a sapphire.