Heat Treating

Heat Treating sapphires is a standard industry practice that improves the clarity and enhances the color of sapphires from Gem Mountain.  Most people prefer the darker color saturation and improved clarity and brilliance of a heat treated stone over the pale pastel color of the average rough sapphire.

Faceting

We Facet over 25,000 gemstones a year for Customers Just Like You who find Sapphires in our gravel.

Faceting is a grinding and polishing process (commonly called “cutting”) that creates a beautifully finished gemstone suitable for jewelry.  In addition to heat treating and faceting over 25,000 sapphires per year, we can facet your other precious and semi-precious gems.  We regularly facet garnets, topaz, amethyst, citrine and sunstone.