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[AGBF]

I never expected to post on this forum. I don't believe I ever read anything here before! I am very grateful to Pricescope for allowing this forum to exist, however, because I could really use some help from its members now!

As some of the people posting here know (I recognize the names of people who post regularly on Rocky Talky and The Colored Stones forum), I love red gemstones. I own two very lovely Burmese red spinels, but no rubies.

A friend of mine decided to remedy this by giving me a ruby necklace she had bought for me on bidz.com. It is a lab created ruby. I love red jewelry and I love the necklace and will wear it happily. To me the stone looks a bit like stained glass. The color is very uniform, as if it were very saturated.

At first I didn't know if discussion of created gemstones was allowed here, but then I saw that there were threads for the discussion of sapphires, which rubies actually are, of course.

I would like to know if anyone knows how rubies are created and where. I know that this is not a simulant, but it doesn't feel natural to me, either!

Deb/AGBF

 

[Ravinmad]

check here

http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4923685_how-lab-created-rubies-made.html?ref=Track2&utm_source=ask

 

[AGBF]

check here

http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4923685_how-lab-created-rubies-made.html?ref=Track2&utm_source=ask

Thanks, Ravinmad. I found the differences between the two processes (flame fusion and flux growth) and the kind of synthetic ruby they produced quite interesting. It was immediately apparent to me from the descriptions of the kind of stones produced, that mine was a product of the first process!

AGBF

 

[innerkitten]

I hear they now can add inclusions to the flux rubies.