PADPARADSCHA

The most sought after and the most expensive sapphire among the fancy sapphires is the Orange Sapphire.  It is also called the ‘Padparadscha Sapphire’, meaning ‘lotus flower’ in Sinhalese (the native language of Sri Lanka).

 

Padparadscha is a pink-orange corundum, with a low to medium saturation and light tone, originally being mined in Sri Lanka, but also found  in Vietnam and Africa.  Padparadscha Sapphires are rare.  This beautiful, fiery gem has a unique hue that is hard to describe.  But one could describe it as in between pinkish-orange to orangish-pink.


Color, brilliance, size and clarity will determine the value of these gemstones.  The rarest of all padparadschas is the totally natural variety, with no sign of treatment.