Macedonian ruby has a unique raspberry color.
Rubies come from what country.
In 2002 rubies were found in the waseges river area of kenya.
Although burma is now known as myanmar the industry still refers to these rubies as burmese.
Miners wash and screen the material and recover gems by hand.
Most burmese rubies come from the districts surrounding mogok and mong hsu regions in the north and north east of burma respectively.
Up to 95 of the country s gemstones including rubies are smuggled to peshawar a city in neighboring pakistan.
Rubies have a hardness of 9 0 on the mohs scale of mineral hardness among the natural gems only moissanite and diamond are harder with diamond having a mohs hardness of 10 0 and moissanite falling somewhere in between corundum ruby and diamond in hardness.
The ruby is also included on the macedonian coat of arms.
The rubies mined in afghanistan are renowned for their high quality.
However most rubies are categorized into certain types based on the country or region from which they re mined.
Rubies come from all around the world and are available in a range of different shapes and red shades.
Burmese rubies come from burma a southeast asian country.
Republic of macedonia is the only country in mainland europe to have naturally occurring rubies.
They can mainly be found around the city of prilep.
Sapphire ruby and pure corundum are α alumina the most stable form of al 2 o 3 in which 3 electrons leave each aluminium ion to.