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Buy ruby but natural
ruby and maybe a star natural ruby, this are
almost always Burmese rubies.
A natural ruby set into jewelry
is not
only a beautiful gemstone, it could also be considered a high and long
lasting investment. Ruby
resources are dwindling on planet earth and
when purchase ruby it is easy to see this in
the prices. In market situations like this
people who try to play games with the stones
to boost profit such as heat treatment,
synthetic ruby and other not so funny things
come in. Burmese rubies have been the major
source of gemstones ruby over the few
centuries. In
recent years new mines were opened in Madagascar
but a natural ruby from those mines cant
match the quality of Burmese rubies or
Myanmar rubies.
A ruby jewel could be considered a very good
solution when you want to do your darling
something real good, beside of the other
stuff. Go and buy rubies make some nice
jewelry, give a gorgeous present and many
problems could be solved, ok but who talk
about money?
A good designed
ruby jewel can be very attractive and gets a high
level of attention, just think about a great ruby and
diamond ring around,
what could be a better
as
ruby jewelry ?
Loose rubies
could be another good investment since as
mentioned before a good natural ruby has a high value and this value
wont disappear.
The
natural star ruby version
is very special,
just the same like a great star sapphire.
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sapphires are the same minerals,
with a different inclusion which makes the color. The red color is sometimes enhanced by
heat treatment or a new synthetic ruby is created. If you
ever buy expensive rubies have them checked in a lab before
the money change hands. The first to do before
you buy rubies is take a magnifying glass (at least 10x) and
check for inclusions and cracks. A synthetic ruby has no
inclusions and no cracks. Also is there are some but it
looks to clean the probability that the stone underwent heat
treatment is very likely.
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Now this loose rubies
are mounted as a great ruby jewel, maybe as ruby rings
which are definitely appreciated by every women.
Could be in form of a gold and ruby ring or ruby and
diamond rings.
The ruby mine is the
place where this ruby gems are coming from and there
are many, most are in Mogok Myanmar,
more.
This
Gemstones are a form of the mineral
corundum,
the red color
comes from impurities by chromium. Rubies
are mainly mined in
Myanmar,
Madagascar and
Sri Lanka, the best quality is a Burmese ruby.
The best color is similar to blood, they
call it it "Pigeons
Blood Color" if the
color is ok and the cut excellent, clarity
fine and the right weight in carat its
getting real expensive.
Hardness is next
to diamonds, rubies have 9 on the
Mohs scale, diamonds
have 10. When buying a ruby it needs to be
very careful since very often people give
them some heat treatment to enhance clarity
and fill cracks with some materials, the
thing is the peoples who do this wont tell
this to the customers and demand high prices
since it looks good, but this is not
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natural, this is
manipulation as long as the customer is not
informed. The problem is after some years
the stone will turn "sour" ugly and
worthless because of this.
Cleaning ruby rings
or a ruby necklace should
simply be done carefully with soapy water and a soft
brush or cloth, avoiding harsh
abrasive chemicals
and ultra sonic jewelry cleaning.
As the color of life force itself, the blood red
of the ruby gemstone makes for striking, incomparable
ruby jewelry and they work just as well as a
gold ruby pendant or
diamond ruby bracelets.
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Open Air Natural Ruby Market |
Jewelry
shops selling ruby gemstone in the usual sense of the word
are absent at the main mining area in
Burma's Mogok.
Instead, ruby gemstone transactions take place everyday of the week
morning and evening in a huge public park. Three-hundred to
four-hundred people congregate in Htar park to inspect gems
either with the naked eye or by means of pencil light torch
or lens
Prospective buyers and sellers sit around on the
park benches or stand in small groups to conduct their
business. Htar means a copper tray - right picture- it is
the main form to display the ruby and this name for a trade
in
gems
originated many years ago when stones were displayed in
copper trays.
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Other
types of Ruby Gems are synthetic Ruby
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Ruby gemstones are among
the most precious gems, the others are
diamonds,
sapphires and emeralds. Diamonds are the hardest and
ruby is the second hardest gemstone; also acids wont
destroy a ruby, means it’s a real tough stone.
Since larger, good gem-quality ruby gemstones are rare,
a fine ruby may be much more expensive as a similar
quality diamond, people are trying to produce ruby
artificially as the do with other gemstone such as
diamonds.
Genuine
Rubies and sapphires
are basically corundum,
the crystal form of aluminum oxide. The difference
between a ruby and a sapphire is only the
color-producing mineral. Chromium makes a ruby red
and the higher the concentrations of chromium the
darker the red gets.
Corundum crystals
not containing chromium are sapphires; they come in
many colors including blue, purple, yellow, pink and
no color at all. Natural ruby gemstones (there are
also synthetic ruby gemstones) are found in Myanmar
or Burma, Sri Lanka and Madagascar. Ruby gemstones
with a excellent color and transparency are for
jewelry use, while the not so good rubies sometimes
are used –because of their hardness- for other
purposes such as thread guides for textile machines.
Burmese rubies are harder than steel, so it is also
used as bearing material in watches and compasses.
Burmese Rubies
also have good wave transmitting properties for
short wavelengths up to the visible light spectrum
and to the long, infrared wavelengths. This is the
reason why they are used in lasers and masers, a
maser is practically a laser but operates in a
non-visible microwave range.
Certain industrial uses need very top quality
ruby crystals of particular sizes and shapes,
here synthetic rubies come in. A synthetic ruby is
practically the same as a natural ruby, actually
even better since there are no impurities, some are
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