Gemstone Ruby

That means the real money with all of all kind of ruby jewelry, such as a ruby gemstone ring, ruby gemstone earring, necklace and ruby gemstones. A ruby gemstone pendant would also be not so bad and many other ruby gemstone gloom variants.

- Mogok in central Myanmar is somehow the Ruby Gemstone Capital

of the world, Mogok is about 120km north of Mandalay in central Myanmar and is the main mining area for Myanmar ruby gemstones.

 
Mogok is almost a synonym for ruby gemstone, ruby, gem market and ruby mining, ruby digging, ruby extraction, ruby exploration in Myanmar - Burma.

Beautiful Mogok Lake lies in the centre of town, with a hotel on a silt island and around. The area around the Chanthargyi Pagoda on a small hill provides a great panorama of Mogok Ruby Gemstone Town, the lake and the surrounding hills.
 

The people in Mogok are a showcase of the ethnic minorities in Myanmar - Burma. All kind of tribes like Lisus, Shans, Gurkhas, Kachins, Bamars, Chinese, Shan are there and try to get their share of the 'ruby cake'. Read more about Myanmar ruby here.

The best and most valuable ruby gemstones are of "pigeon blood" color, that is a rich red, usually they are mined in Mogok,  Myanmar or Burma.

The word Mogok comes from the Bamar Moegokesetwaing, meaning horizon. In Shan language it 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 three 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.

Ruby heat treatment is very common with ruby gemstones especially with ruby 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.

The ruby gemstone heat treatment melts the natural inclusions in a ruby. Means, it you don't see any inclusions its a good indication the the ruby gemstone 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 ruby gemstones 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.

When rutile needles align in a ruby 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 Chantaburi.

The inclusions ruby gemstone 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 the ruby gemstone 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.

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Jewelry shops selling ruby gemstone in the usual sense of the word are absent from 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.

- Other types of Ruby Gemstone are Synthetic Ruby

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. 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.

Ruby Raw Natural about 1000 carat.

Ruby is harder than steel, so it is also used as bearing material in watches and compasses.

Ruby gemstones 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 used as gemstones, but most for technical purposes.

uses for rubies besides jewelry - laser, watch bearing, other.
value of a raw ruby - depends of size, color and form.
wear ruby gemstone - jewelry, fashion.
what does a mined ruby mean? - money.
what does a real ruby stone look like - its red and shiny
what does it mean when a ruby has been heat treated - red color is better and more intense.
what does Madagascar ruby mean - ruby mined in Madagascar
what does ruby stone look like when found - red stone or cristal.
what does the ruby stone stand for - value.
what is raw ruby worth? - depends on size, color, clarity.
what is the best ruby gemstone? - "pigeon blood" color, intense red, little inclusion, size.
what is the use of ruby stone? - jewelry, laser, watches bearings +.
what jewellery is made up of ruby stone? - ring, pendant, bracelet, earnings and other. read above.
whats a better stone ruby or Safire? - its the same only different color.
where are rubies imported from? - Myanmar, Thailand, Madagascar.
which country has the best ruby stone? - Myanmar
which is more expensive ruby or diamond? - it depends on the quality, actually ruby are also much more rare than diamonds.
why are rubies good? - they look good, after cutting and polishing and are only second to diamonds in terms to hardness.
why is a ruby considered a solution? - because it looks good
why is a ruby red and a sapphire blue? - the color was made from inclusions during forming the gemstone.
Yangon rubies sellers? - At Bogyoke Market.