List of sapphires by size


This is a list of sapphires by size.

Sapphire

Sapphires are a precious gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum, consisting of aluminum oxide with trace amounts of elements such as iron, titanium, chromium, copper, or magnesium. It is typically blue, but natural "fancy" sapphires also occur in yellow, purple, orange, and green colors; "parti sapphires" show two or more colors. The only color corundum stone that the term sapphire is not used for is red, which is called a ruby. Pink colored corundum may be either classified as ruby or sapphire depending on locale.
Commonly, natural sapphires are cut and polished into gemstones and worn in jewelry. They also may be created synthetically in laboratories for industrial or decorative purposes in large crystal boules. Because of the remarkable hardness of sapphires – 9 on the Mohs scale – sapphires are also used in some non-ornamental applications, such as infrared optical components, high-durability windows, wristwatch crystals and movement bearings, and very thin electronic wafers, which are used as the insulating substrates of special-purpose solid-state electronics such as integrated circuits and GaN-based blue LEDs.
Sapphire is the birthstone for September and the gem of the 45th anniversary. A sapphire jubilee occurs after 65 years.

List of sapphires

SapphireOriginDateSizeCutColorLocationRef
Star of Pure LandSri Lanka2023StarPurpleAnonymous owner
Star of AdamSri Lanka2015StarBlueAnonymous owner
Black Star of QueenslandAustralia1938StarBlackAnonymous owner
Star of IndiaSri LankaStarBlue-grayAmerican Museum of Natural History, New York
Queen Marie of RomaniaSri LankaCushionBlueAnonymous owner
Logan SapphireSri LankaCushionBlueNational Museum of Natural History, Washington
Star of AsiaBurmaStarBlueNational Museum of Natural History, Washington
Star of ArtabanSri LankaStarBlue-violetNational Museum of Natural History, Washington
Star of BombaySri LankaStarBlue-violetNational Museum of Natural History, Washington
Ruspoli Sapphire
Stuart SapphireSri LankaBlueTower of London
Bismarck SapphireMyanmarTableBlueNational Museum of Natural History, Washington
James J. Hill SapphireCornflowerNational Museum of Natural History, Washington