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GIA Highlights one-of-a-kind Orange Sapphire from Greenland

What’s likely to be a more than one-in-a-million discovery, Greenland Ruby unearthed an oval 0.89ct transparent bright orange sapphire at the Aappaluttoq ruby deposit

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Greenland is honoured to be part of the latest edition of GIA Education Gems and Gemology. See link below, page 115, where Product Manager Martin Viala (MSc, FGA) speaks about the very unusual find.

“A transparent bright orange sapphire weighing 0.89ct and measuring 6.41 × 5.02 mm (figure 2) immediately caught our eye”. Says Martin Viala, product manager for Greenland Ruby, who also shares video of the original 1.07 g sapphire rough. This unusual gem was mined in late 2019 and heated in May 2022. Viala noted that it was a textbook example of a chromium trapped-hole (h●–Cr3+) chromophore." 


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