Macedonian ruby has a unique raspberry color.
Rubies come from what country.
Sri lanka is a source of many colors of sapphire as well as ruby and star gems gems occur here in a gravel layer known as illam at a depth of up to 50 feet.
Pailin produces some of the world s finest sapphires but the country isn t a significant ruby source.
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.
In 2002 rubies were found in the waseges river area of kenya.
Miners wash and screen the material and recover gems by hand.
Republic of macedonia is the only country in mainland europe to have naturally occurring rubies.
However the country does not reap from its rich ruby deposits with most of the rubies being smuggled out of the country.
However most rubies are categorized into certain types based on the country or region from which they re mined.
They can mainly be found around the city of prilep.
Although burma is now known as myanmar the industry still refers to these rubies as burmese.
The rubies mined in afghanistan are renowned for their high quality.
Burmese rubies come from burma a southeast asian country.
Up to 95 of the country s gemstones including rubies are smuggled to peshawar a city in neighboring pakistan.
Most burmese rubies come from the districts surrounding mogok and mong hsu regions in the north and north east of burma respectively.