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Even perhaps more than a tray of loose diamonds, a tray of loose emeralds,rubies and sapphire can always excite a gemologist for hours. A huge benefit of these rare and valuable gemstones is that they are very hard as measured by the international standard Mohs’ rating, which takes 10 as most hard and zero least hard. Emerald comes in at an very solid 7-8 hardness, which means any object of art carved from emerald is strong and solid and can be worn with less fear of loss.

Because of the popularity of emerald and ruby and sapphire that many attempts at fraud and mis representation are on going. The variety of emerald with the highest value has been described as soft fresh cut lawn. Emerald is the green varient of the mineral beryl. It is one of the rarest members of the beryl family, and therefore most expensive and most sought after. Only the red variety of emerald is sometimes more sought and therefore more expensive than the light emereald of Burma.

Burma is the source of the world’s finest gems, other than found in a small patch in Colombia, and several isolated locations world wide. Emerald came to be the birth stone of the month of May.The adjacent areas of Thailand, Cambodia, China and India still have many sites of gems, and locals work them diligently as they are found.The light soft green tint in the mineral beryl shows the magnificent emerald off in its finest splendor. Many rich sites for these champions of gemstones are now also found in Australia and Africa.

Also, massive new diamond finds now produce world
class gems in northern Canada. Emerald is a green vatiety of the mineral beryl. It has a surprisingly hard 7-8 on the Mohs’ scale of hardness. Ruby has been known as the gem of gems through Roman times, and it was said to surpass all other precious stones in it’s virtue. Ruby is the red variety of the mineral corundum. Ruby is nowadays the fasion ring for July, and seen to be majestic in its compelling nature and over powering draw.

A ruby was historically known as a sign of passion, love, chastity, virtue. Firm friendship can come fromn the the wearers wearing a bond ring each. The finest rubies comes from Burma, and again adjacent areas have the next rarest and expensive. There are many other fine sources of rubies to be found in the world. Among them, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Kenya, Tanzania,and Kashmir. The Kashmir ruby is very hard, marking 9 on the Mohs’ scale.

As ruby is very hard and durable it can be a long term investment and you can be assured a carved or clear piece of ruby will be intact and worthy of respect, even more, decades from now. Rubies are so valuable that many tricks can be tried, and you must be wary. Chemicals can be added to make the gem something that close inspection will reveal to be false.Sapphire is known as the celestial gem, the symbol of divine heaven and good health is the mineral corundum, We know sapphire mostly in its blue aspect, it also comes in almost all color ranges.

Sapphire is also very hard measuring 9 on the Mohs’ scale. Blue sapphires can be amongst the most valuable from this area.

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