Rubies Ruby treatments, mining, lore and other interesting facts
Famous Rubies | Ruby Stories
Famous Rubies: Orpen on the Black Prince's Ruby | Tavernier on famous Rubies from the Orient | Exceptional European Rubies
Famous Ruby Mines | Mining Areas
Famous Victorian Jeweler Edwin Streeter led a consortium against Baron Rothschild to obtain the Burma Ruby Mining rights.
Edwin Streeter on Ruby Mines Streeter's connection with Burma Mines Tavernier was one of the leading gem dealers of the 17th century who brought back the diamond that later became the "Hope Diamond". Tavernier on Ruby Mines in Burma ------------------------------------ Badakshan Ruby | mines in Badakhshan
Burma, Ceylon, Australia and "Lord of the Rubies "
List of Ruby mine locations around the world, and more recent status of those mines
Ruby References before 1700
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Some Gemstone ClassicsChemical | Physical PropertiesSome more Ruby sources
Catelle on Ruby and Sapphire
The curator of Chicago's Field Museum
of Natural History between 1894-1904. Oliver Farrington on Rubies, Sapphire and other Corundum
External Excellent Ruby SourcesAn excellent mineralogical data sheet can be found on Webmineral's Corundum page.
Another one in German on Mineralienatlas Korund.
Obviously no external source is complete without the expert site of Dick Hughes. Wikipedia on Rubies.
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