Blue Sapphire (Neelam) Price Guide

Blue Sapphire is considered to be one of the most powerful, beautiful and influential gemstones. Blue Sapphire (also known as Neelam in Hindi) is a precious gemstone and therefore has a good command and value in the market.

If you wish to buy Blue Sapphire for any particular reason, the most important thing you must keep in mind before making a purchase is that you are buying a real and authentic gemstone at a fair price. Therefore, it is highly recommended that before buying, you must acquaint yourself a little knowledge about how Blue Sapphire pricing is done and how it can vary in the market. Just like the other gemstones available in the market, the price of a Blue Sapphire stone is dependant on four major parameters which are also commonly known as the 4C’s i.e. colour, carat, clarity and cut. However, there are other factors also which heavily influence and cater to the pricing of Blue Sapphire such as the origin place of the gemstone, rarity and demand in the market.

Therefore, to make your purchase of a Blue Sapphire stone an easy process, we bring you the following important factors which you should always consider and keep in mind before buying it.

Origin

While pricing a Blue Sapphire gemstone, origin plays a big role. A certified and authentic Blue Sapphire from a particular origin will always cost high as compared to the ones from an undefined origin of place, even if you can see no big difference in the quality of both the gemstones.

Generally, the most highly priced Blue Sapphire stones are from Kashmir (India), Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and Burma (Myanmar) as the best quality stones with good clarity and colour are mined from these regions. The value of these stones will always remain higher as compared to the ones with the origin of Russia and Thailand.

A Sri Lanka (Ceylon) originated Blue Sapphire is extracted from the popular mines of Ratnapura which are known to be producing the most qualitative and finest gemstones all around the world. Blue Sapphire stones from Sri Lanka are of supreme quality. The price of a Ceylon Blue Sapphire can range from Rs. 2000 per carat to Rs. 32,000 per carat.

Kashmiri Blue Sapphire is one of the most popular and wanted Blue Sapphire gemstone because of its superior colour, highest quality, rarity, good clarity and transparency and its soft and velvety sheen and texture. All these factors contribute to the high pricing of the stone. Generally, the cost of an original and authentic Kashmiri Blue Sapphire can range between Rs 1.25 lakh per carat to Rs 10 lakh per carat.

Colour

Blue Sapphire comes in a variety of shades of blue ranging from pure blue to greenish-blue to violet blue. Thus, the colour of a Blue Sapphire stone heavily influences and contributes to its pricing in the market. The color should have bright and vivid hue and should be attractive to look at. The richer and darker shades of Blue Sapphire stone are heavily priced for their premium quality and colour. Dull and pale colored stones stand very low on quality scale and are not recommended for astrological purposes. Ideally, the color of Blue Sapphire stones should be ‘True Blue’ with benchmark of ‘Cornflower Blue’ i.e. without any secondary tinge of Purple or Violet.

Carat

While wearing any gemstone, it is important to know how many carats (ratti) is the ideal weight of the stone as the power of gems is entirely dependent on its weight and size. Ideally, it is said and observed that one carat for 12 kgs is perfect that is a 60 kg person should wear 5 carat of Blue Sapphire ring/pendant. The price per carat of the Blue Sapphire increases with the increasing carats.

Clarity

One of the most important and significant factors that play a big role in the pricing of the Blue Sapphire gemstone is the clarity and transparency of the stone. Most natural Sapphires have more or less visible inclusions like silk, included crystals, fingerprints and color bands. A Blue Sapphire stone with clear, smooth, shiny, gliding texture with no fine lines and cuts will be sold at a higher price in the market as compared to the ones with fewer lines and impressions.

Cut

The cut is also very important while fixing the price of a Blue Sapphire gemstone or any other gemstone as well. The cut and finish of the stone depicts the quality and sheen of the gemstone and therefore the more finished and smooth the gemstone, the more pricing it will have in the market. Highly faceted gemstones are more expensive than the poorly cut stones due to the extra stone wastage, labor & other costs incurred in the process. A finely cut Blue Sapphire looks bright, illuminates colour and can cleverly conceal the inclusions.

Certificate

If you buy a gemstone from a reputed and trusted gemstone expert, then they will surely give you a certificate from a reputed laboratory. This certificate will ensure the quality, origin, color and cut of the stone.

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