🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Is this a Raw Sapphire? Or something else?

[detectit]

Know if this is sapphire? It's fractured. 3/4" long x 5/8" wide. Found in Maggie Valley, NC. in the 60's Thought was a sapphire. But they're blue.

 

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[fuss]

Though not Sapphire it could well be Corundum and testing its hardness is the simplest way to tell (see if anything can scratch it)

 

[Buckshotnc]

Sapphires don’t have to be blue, I find them in Western North Carolina in other colors ranging from pink to champagne color.

 

[opalboy]

Looks like a worn crystal of some sort!