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2.95 Ct. Blue Sapphire from Tanzania
This loose stone ships by Apr 19
Item ID: | S35220 |
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Dimensions (MM): help | Length: 9.5 Width: 7.06 Height: 4.46 |
Weight: | 2.95 Ct. |
Color: help | Blue |
Color intensity: help | Medium |
Clarity: help | Slightly Included |
Shape: help | Radiant |
Cut: | Radiant |
Cutting style: | Faceted |
Enhancements: help | No Enhancement |
Origin: help | Tanzania |
Per carat price: help | $900 |
I hold in my mind a vision of the sea at dawn, a quiet blue that takes shape within a gem, and I invite you to imagine that same hush captured in a single stone, a transparent 2.95 carat radiant shape blue sapphire that seems to keep a slice of sky within its heart. From The Natural Sapphire Company, this gem measures 9.50 by 7.06 by 4.46 millimeters, a presence that is both commanding and intimate. Its medium color intensity offers a poetic balance, not a shout of color, but a soft, earnest call that draws the eye and asks the heart to lean closer. Slightly included when evaluated at eye level, it is honest and real, a reminder that beauty often carries small marks of its journey. The radiant cut gives it a geometry that sings with facets, while an excellent polish lets those facets catch and return light like memories reflected on water. No enhancement has altered its original voice, it is as earth made it, pure and true, and its Tanzanian origin lends a wild, distant geography to the romance it inspires.
Imagine now the long and slow alchemy that brought this blue into being, a tale that began millions of years before language, when the world was young in ways our bones remember. Deep beneath Tanzania, where the crust was a living thing and the land was a theater of slow fire and patient pressure, mineral rich fluids wandered through fractures like traveling weather. Where aluminum met oxygen in just the right way, the seeds of corundum formed, and where whispers of iron and titanium threaded through that crystalline lattice, blue began to bloom. Time was the artisan, heat and pressure the steady hands that coaxed order from chaos. Crystals grew in quiet caverns away from light, each layer laid down like a verse in a long poem. Later, the earth breathed again, and tectonic sighs nudged these crystals upward, granting them the chance to greet the surface. Rivers, rains, and the slow polish of wind completed the work, but most of the shaping of this sapphire was a private act of the planet, done in darkness and patience, a creation story measured in geologic heartbeats rather than years.
When a cutter from our trusted atelier held this rough in hand, they read that ancient language and listened for the lines that would make the stone sing. The radiant cut was chosen to honor both clarity and color, to balance the stone as one balances a thought and a feeling. The result is a gem that throws a steady, lively fire across its angles, a conversation of light and depth that feels like laughter and hush in the same breath. At 9.50 by 7.06 by 4.46 millimeters, it sits on the finger with a presence that is noble and affectionate, enough to be noticed, not so large as to shout. Slightly included at eye level, it carries internal markings like the faint signatures left on a lovers palm, proof of a past and an authenticity that cannot be staged. Medium color intensity grants it a versatility that will pair with both day and night, with linen and silk, with vows spoken and promises kept. The excellent polish completes the experience, making every motion an occasion for light to dance, and because there has been no enhancement, what you see is the sapphire as the earth delivered it, honest and eternal.
To hold this gem is to carry a fragment of geological poetry, to wear a story that began in subterranean theaters and arrived in human hands as a polished promise. At The Natural Sapphire Company we cherish such gems because they are small absolutes, steady reminders of continuity, of depth, of longing fulfilled. Imagine placing this 2.95 carat radiant shape blue sapphire into a setting that frames its story, a ring that will make it the silent witness to shared mornings and whispered confidences. If you seek an engagement piece that speaks in images rather than announcements, a stone that will age alongside a life and grow in meaning with each telling, this sapphire answers in a low, confident tone. Contact us and let us describe how it will sit in the setting you dream of, how the facets will catch the light of your most treasured moments. We invite you to let this Tanzanian blue become part of your story, unenhanced, honest, and polished to sing, a reminder that some things worth giving are those that were formed slowly, under pressure, and brought to light with care.































