Country origin record

India

Country record supporting sourced Batch 1 gemstone locations.

Evidence statusPublished & sourcedLast reviewed August 17, 2026

Overview Gem relationships Sources

Evidence-backed overview

A country in the gemstone graph

Country record supporting sourced Batch 1 gemstone locations.

Bidirectional relationships

Documented gemstones

Occurrence and production are separate claims. A production label is date-bounded and does not guarantee quality, origin determination, or market value.

Historic production

Sapphire

Published locality records document this gemstone within the country.

Historic production documented

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Evidence[2]

Documented occurrence

Alexandrite

Published locality records document this gemstone within the country.

Production not assessed

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Evidence[1]

Within this country

Published places

Gemstone district

India Alexandrite Deposits

India is a documented Alexandrite source in laboratory origin research.

AlexandriteOpen record

Gemstone district

Kashmir Sapphire Region

Historic high-altitude source region associated with notable blue sapphire.

SapphireOpen record

Evidence ledger

Sources & verification

Sources are deduplicated across the geographic record. Current-production claims receive explicit review dates; a map point never substitutes for geological or production evidence.

[1]
Aaron C. Palke, Ziyin Sun, Nathan D. Renfro, and Shane F. McClure. Geographic Origin Determination of Alexandrite.
Gems & Gemology · 2019
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[2]
Aaron C. Palke, Sudarat Saeseaw, Nathan D. Renfro, Ziyin Sun, and Shane F. McClure. Geographic Origin Determination of Blue Sapphire.
Gems & Gemology · 2019
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