Myanmar Ruby Gemstone Rubies Gem & Natural Mogok Rubies

right. Loose ruby gemstones are easy to find at Mogok, Myanmar, theworld capital of ruby mining, Many are gem quality for beautiful jewelry. Smaller rubies are also traded at the Bogyoke market in Yangon Myanmar every day. There is a lot of business with ruby jewelry and ruby gem there. Buy rubies is the idea at the open market between the covered blocks.

Most ruby gemstone

shops in Myanmar are in Yangon's Bogyoke market, there are also several jewelry shops elsewhere in Yangon city in particular placed in the Yangon hotels and some ruby shops are at the gem museum in Yangon. Also elsewhere in Myanmar you always can find a ruby for sale. Buying rubies in Myanmar is for sure the best at Yangon at the places indicated above, if you are a adventurer you could travel to Mogok and buy some rubies directly from the mine, the problem is how to determine the quality and how to get the right paper for legal export, don't try illegal gem export. If they catch you, very likely, even if the stone is quite small, you go to prison and this is real bad. Myanmar prisons are some of the worst in the world, your health is worth more.

Burmese Ruby has been mined

for several hundred years and rubies in general for about 10,000 years, maybe more. In certain cultures, supernatural power have been interpreted into ruby stones, some even thought the red color came from fire inside the stone. Ancient Hindus believed that rubies could make water boil, and early Greeks thought the crystals could melt wax. After a diamond a ruby is the next hardest. In other cultures (Myanmar or Burmese and Native American), it was commonly believed that a ruby was protecting a person who wear it because of its blood-like color and naturally also as ruby jewelry.

A natural ruby is usually of high value, heat treated stones are of low value. Synthetic rubies are another version mainly used in industrial application, laser and watch bearing. Until recently the best rubies were mainly mined in Myanmar - Burma, more.

Even a Myanmar Ruby

or Burmese ruby is difficult to find cut and polished of sizes over around 6mm means prices are constantly rising, the market is somehow similar to jade. Ruby rings are still in high demand  most of the time together with some diamonds.

The hunt is after ruby gem and there are always people who try to find ruby gems all over the world. Using new exploration methods and cutting edge technology they are quite successful, read more.

A ruby gemstone in Madagascar

is 'harvested' the artesian way. There is a lack of investment capital in Madagascar due to the political instability -a small clan with strong connections to France run the country. France is one a strongest supporter of  Africans looting their country. Lebanese have have most of the legal and illegal precious stones business in west Africa under

their control. In Madagascar the ruling clan on power controls almost everything which brings money via export.

A ruby is not only a beautiful gemstone, it also be considered a very high and long lasting investment since the ruby resources are dwindling on planet earth. In recent years only in Madagascar new ruby mines opened and their output is very little because of only minimal investment into ruby mining. A ruby ring could be considered to be a very good solution when you want to do your darling something real good, beside of the other stuff. About rubies much has been said bet this is eternal true. Gemstone like rubies are so attractive and gets a high level of attention, just think about this great ruby and diamond ring around, what could be a better ruby jewelry ?

means a cold place with early sunset. According to legend, three Shan hunters lost their way in the jungle and as they made camp under a large fig tree, they found many fine rough rubies dislodged by a landslide from a nearby hill. They gathered many of the ruby gemstones and took them back to their sawbwa (prince or chief) of Momeik 45 kilometers from Mogok.

The delighted sawbwa ordered a village to be built where the ruby gemstones were found called Thaphanbin or fig tree and since that time valuable gems, mainly rubies, have been mined in the area where Mogok now stands. In 2005 there were over 300,000 people living in the area made up of Lisus, Shans, Gurkhas, Kachins, Bamars, Chinese and Shan, almost all of them make a living from the gemstone business. The town has a number of living examples of the ‘rags to riches’ success story. Some are immensely wealthy.

These lucky ones are no doubt a source of inspiration and act as an incentive to the many  thousands of miners who are hoping to strike it rich. There are over 1,000 ruby mines within an area of approximately 4,864 square kilometers around Mogok. The soil containing gravel and other substances is mixed with water, conveyed to wooden receptacles containing a series of metal sieves and washed thoroughly with copious amounts of water. The gravel and other solid matter are then carefully examined and ruby gemstones are collected. A ruby's coloring comes from the presence of iron and chromium in the crystals.

What about some beautiful ruby beads as body decoration.

People don’t always go for cut and polished precious stones, often gemstone beads are preferred for certain purposes those are just the right body decoration. Most used are semi precious beads those have a good market and a sustainable selling and buying is almost for sure. Some of the most the best selling items are jade beads since they look good and usually are not very expensive also plenty of different colors are available with jade. Real precious stones beads are rather seldom since beads are always used in a larger amount such as in a chain and that gets quickly expensive when more than 10 are used.

Probably the most used precious stones in bead form are pearls that are the nature of the item. Tanzanite, aquamarine, and amethyst are probably the most used semi precious stones beside of lower priced jades. For almost all fashion clothing and not only fashion clothes different colors are demanded for this task again jade is probably the most versatile because of the different colors available but for certain purposes ruby beads or sapphire beads are ideal, it really depends on the occasion to wear them and the color.  Jewelry made using the best fitting gemstone can really enhance the overall appearance significantly.

Heat treatment melts

the natural inclusions in a ruby. Means, it you don't see any inclusions its a good indication the the stone has been heat treated. Ruby have very often flaws and cracks which are hidden with all kind of tricks, by applying special oils, waxes and resins. Myanmar or Burma rubies do fluoresce under ultra-violet light and some top quality rubies will also fluoresce in daylight. A good way to find a synthetic ruby is their very strong fluorescence. Ruby heat treatment is very common with rubies especially with stones that would not normally be of gem quality. The whole simply means take a low valuable ruby into the oven, apply extreme pressure on it and out of the oven comes a perfect ruby matching the most valuable.

A star ruby forms the star when rutile needles align

this can display a six-ray star, known as asterism, a cat's eye effect is also possible in rubies but this is very rare.

Myanmar or Burma "Pigeon blood"

red ruby gemstones are usually the most valuable. Thai rubies usually are Myanmar rubies, either imported from Myanmar or -mostly- smuggled. The main trading place for Myanmar rubies are Bangkok and Chanthaburi. The inclusions a ruby contains can indicate the place where they come from. Myanmar or Burma ruby very often have inclusions of rutile, olivine and Spinel.

Ancient Hindu's referred to rubies as the Lord of Gems and for centuries it has been mixed up Spinel. Red Corundum is called the ruby, other color of corundum is a sapphire. Rubies are second in terms of hardness only to the Diamond. The best way to clean your ruby jewelry is with a toothbrush soap and warm water, do avoid chemical cleaners as this could have an adverse effect on any oils used to treat your gemstone, however it is also safe to use a steam or ultra-sonic cleaner.

Diamonds might

be the girl’s best friend, but nothing beats a piece of ruby jewelry, its red, its real red, what does that So whatever the occasion, ruby jewelry can mark the occasion with a touch of heart and soul giving that person a timeless treasure, ruby gem.