It required no heating or enhancement to improve it – in short, it was natural. When cut, the color closely resembled that seen in the finest canary Diamonds. The color however, was the real focus of interest it was a unique, sharp yellow, vastly different from the more orangish-yellow color of the yellow sapphires mined in the far east.
These crystals had the added bonus of being naturally clean and free of inclusions. Initially, the focus was on mining blue Sapphire which predominated closer to the surface but as the company mined deeper, an exciting development occurred – the deposit began yielding up crystals which contained both yellow and blue colors, with some of the yellows being a unique “canary yellow” not usually associated with yellow sapphire.īi-color Sapphire crystals from the Garbatula Mine being viewed in our offices. The blue Sapphire which was mined bore a close resemblance to the Australian Sapphires from Queensland and had a strong secondary green axis which tended to make the stones quite dark in tone. Our Sapphire Mine in Garbatula, Kenya in the 1970's The area was dusty, wild and remote, located about 80 miles northeast of Mount Kenya. We obtained the mining claim for the area from the Mines Ministry and Basil Zagoritis, the company founder began the herculean task of building a road to access the area and setting up a mining camp.
The company was just starting out on its first mining project and samples of dark blue sapphire from the area had been brought in by local tribesman from the area and looked promising. The Garbatula Sapphire mines in Northern Kenya were actually opened up by our company in the early 1970’s.
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