Category: sapphires

Family Finds Sapphires Stashed ‘in Socks’ in Late Grandma’s House That Sell for Fortune—Here’s How Much

Sapphires discovered hidden in a Derbyshire house have sold for 17,800 pounds at a Lichfield auction house in the UK on Monday, March 27. Yet the vivid blue stones have lain unseen for years—and may even have ended up in the bin! They were an example of the sparkling treasures found squirreled away at the…


Mountain Climber Finds 6,000 Gemstones Worth $340,000 on French Mountain Where Plane Crashed in 1966

In the decades after the 1966 crash of an Air India plane on Mont Blanc in Chamonix, France, the mountain’s ice and snow have been yielding bits of debris, such as photos, old newspapers, and in 1986 even a piece of a landing gear. Then in 2013, a French mountain climber in his 20s made…