As the new year dawned, Sri Lanka was googled so much for a story of the biggest 'Star Blue' sapphire in the world found in Sri Lanka valued at $100 million or more, hitting the scales at an ...

From Princess Diana's engagement ring to the Star of India, the September birthstone has lived up to its legendary reputation as one of the world's four major precious gemstones. Best known for its ...

Subash Karunarathne, chairman at Subash Gems in Pelmadulla told The Island yesterday that he purchased the 99-carat Blue Sapphire for Rs. 430 million because it was a nature’s masterpiece, and it ...

The world’s largest corundum blue sapphire cluster, ‘Queen of Asia’ recently discovered in Sri Lanka, remains unsold and has been brought into the country, National Gem and Jewellery Authority ...

The Persians believed the Earth stood on it, God supposedly carved those ten commandments into tablets of it and now Kate Middleton is sporting it on her ring finger. Meet the blue sapphire, gemstone ...