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National Museum of Natural History [3] DeLong Star Ruby: Burma: 1930 100.32 carats (20.064 g) American Museum of Natural History [4] Garrard's Red Ruby Burma: 40.63 carats (8.126 g) [5] Sunrise Ruby: 25.59 carats (5.118 g) [6] Carmen Lúcia Ruby: Burma: 1930s 23.1 carats (4.62 g) National Museum of Natural History [7] Elizabeth Taylor Ruby
After the Second World War, ruby deposits were found in Madagascar, Mozambique, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, and Vietnam. [11] The Republic of North Macedonia is the only country in mainland Europe to have naturally occurring rubies. They can mainly be found around the city of Prilep. Macedonian rubies have a unique raspberry color. [12]
The mineral's rarity is due to zirconium and boron rarely interacting with each other in nature. The crystals are naturally hexagonal, but may also be euhedral or orthorhombic. They also may have no crystalline structure, but usually are accompanied by a crystalline structure. Until late 2004, only two had been cut into faceted gemstones. [8]
Individually, ruby-bearing zones can measure up to 20 metres in thickness and up to 200 metres in length. They may occur as single showings, but are usually found in alignments of multiple showings, with some of the occurrences such as The Ruby Island Line collectively up to 3.5 kilometres in strike length, and as much as 100 metres in width. [5]
[5]: 431–707 Sapphire and rubies are often found in the same geographical settings, but they generally have different geological formations. For example, both ruby and sapphire are found in Myanmar's Mogok Stone Tract, but the rubies form in marble, while the sapphire forms in granitic pegmatites or corundum syenites. [5]: 403–429
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Emerald of Saint Louis, [5] 51.60 carats cut; discovered in Austria, probably Habachtal, resides in the National Museum of Natural History, Paris Gachalá Emerald [ 6 ] Mogul Mughal Emerald , 217.80 carats cut; mined in Colombia and cut in the Mughal empire in Hijri year 1107 (1695–1696), resides in the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha , Qatar [ 7 ...
To get your hands on some rubies and/or diamonds of your own, you can visit Christie's for some gorgeous and less expensive pieces. If you like 'Antiques Roadshow,' take a look inside the show ...