[Jewelry making - Article 00980] - [Orchid] To Be [beryllium] or Not To Be?

[alex yu]

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Dear Jewelers,

    The Be-treated sapphire (beryllium) has found its way into the market
    for a number of years by now. As a sapphire mining and cutting
    factory here in the largest China sapphire mine, we are not sure
    whether we should Be Treat or Not to Be Treat our sapphires in the
    days to come. 

    Be treated sapphires show stunningly beautiful colors in pink,
    yellow, golden and padparadscha and they are moderately priced. For
    us this has imposed disastrous effect on the natural fancy colors
    mined and cut by us. Due the yellow and pink sapphire accounts for a
    very tiny percentage among all stones mined, the cost for these
    natural stones is invariably higher. But for the customers, sometimes
    they will complain about the higher price on the natural fancy
    sapphires simply neglecting the fact that the other brilliant fancy
    sapphires are Be Treated stones. As a result, the natural fancy
    sapphire sales dropped and price damaged. 

    From time to time, we will also heat some of the yellows but never
    use beryllium treatment as we thought that would fall into the
    category of color diffused sapphire. 

    So please let me know in your jeweler's eyes which one makes more
    sense, the outstanding color or the natural label? 

    Been hard to make the decision whether to go Be Treatment on some of
    our yellow sapphires. 

    To Be or Not To Be? 

Alex
Neptune Gem
www.china-sapphire.com


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