Ruby is a stone with a pinkish red color. It is also termed as a gem stone. Ruby is derivative from a Latin word Ruber, which means red. The appearance of it is like a crystal with a six sided prism. Ruby attains extraordinary power from its lovers over the centuries. It has been look upon as a symbol of love and passion, liberty, charity, pride and godly power. Ruby is a stone next to diamond when compared with the hardness and the pricing factor. It is one among the navagraha stones.

Ruby Gemstone fit in to the gemstone family unit of corundum. The most unadulterated form of corundum is colorless, but occurrence of trace rudiments adds color to a corundum gem. The reason of color in ruby is chromium. Ruby is derivative from a Latin word Ruber, which means red.

It is formed in a natural environment with an ideal mixture of aluminum oxide, right temperature, right pressure in the earth’s crust and extremely low silicon content is a necessary. This creates rubies very hardly obtainable gems in nature.

Ruby gems are found in a broad range of red like red, rose-pink, purplish-brownish red and dark deep red. The premium of all these colors being the pigeon blood red gem establish from the Burmese mines, appropriately accepted as Burmese ruby.

When you discuss on the cuts in ruby is not as important as it is in other types of stones when the pricing factor is carried only the color factor is given much importance. If the ruby is not cut properly and positioned in the right crystal direction then a gemstone would possibly offer a common look that will drag down the value severely. It is a demanding task to get a first-class cut, for a gem with the most excellent color and least amount of wastage without negotiating on the weight of this classy gemstone.

There has been a lot of big size rubies evidenced in history; though such large sizes are exceptionally atypical nowadays. Thus as the carat size of the gem raise so do its price per carat also increases. One of the premium Star Rubies exhibit would be at Smithsonian termed as the Rosser Reeves ruby in Sri Lanka, weighing 138.7 carats.

There is a complete choice of the kind and size of natural inclusions that are found in the natural ruby crystals. The kinds of addition in the ruby create it simple to recognize the derivation of the gem and thus have an effect on its pricing. Mostly, an integrated ruby will consistently attain a lower price than a clearer ruby of the similar color and size. 

The element composition of ruby gem is aluminum oxide (Al 2 O3). Its exact magnitude is 3.99 to 4.00 and refractive index series is 1.760-1.768 to 1.770-1.779. Ruby’s rigidity on Mohs scale is 9. It’s the next hardest stone after diamond.

Ruby mines are found in Burma which is now Myanmar, Thailand, Sri Lanka, South Africa, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tanzania, Kenya, Nepal and Vietnam.

Ruby gems are found in a broad range of red rose-pink, like red, purplish-brownish red and dark deep red. The premium of all these colors being the pigeon blood red gem establish from the Burmese mines, appropriately accepted as Burmese ruby

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