Burmese sapphires are mainly produced in Myanmar, as the name suggests. This kind of sapphire is very popular in the jewelry market at present. The color of Burmese sapphire is particularly beautiful. Let's learn how to tell the truth from the false.

How to distinguish Burmese sapphires?

Sapphire is characterized by uneven color, parallel hexagonal cylinder, flat belt and different growth lines. Polycrystalline twins develop, and louver twins are common. Cleavage crack along double crystal plane. It has a strong dichroism. Sapphires from all over the world have their own characteristics in addition to the above-mentioned characteristics. Sapphire from Myanmar and other places is bright blue because of its titanium content, and contains filamentous rutile and fingerprint-like liquid inclusions. Filamentous rutile inclusions can produce six or twelve starlight, which is a high-quality gem variety.

Identification of true and false sapphire from Myanmar

1. The biggest feature of natural sapphire is uneven color. It can be seen that most of them are arranged in parallel hexagonal columns with flat growth lines. Artificial sapphires have the same color, and their growth lines are arc-shaped belts, and the body is often breadcrumb-shaped or beaded bubbles.

2. Natural sapphires also have obvious dichroism, one direction is blue, and the other direction is blue-green. Other gemstones have different colors from natural sapphires, so they can be distinguished.

3. The simplest method is hardness measurement. Natural sapphires can be traced on topaz, while other blue sapphires are difficult to trace on topaz.

Characteristics of Burma Sapphire Fake

At present, the commonly used sapphires in the market include blue spinel, zoisite, blue zircon and Dong Qingshi. These are some low-value crystal stones. When buying, the seller must be required to issue a nationally recognized appraisal certificate, which is the most secure way.

Synthetic sapphires are often very orderly, and many synthetic sapphires are clean and flawless, usually fakes. There are always some impurities in natural sapphires, but there are almost no impurities in clean sapphires. The color of synthetic sapphire is often dazzling, very superficial luster, and there is no deep feeling of natural color; Natural gemstones are high in color and not dazzling.