Rubies come in a wide variety of colors including bright red pink red brownish red dark red and even pink or purplish red.
Price brownish red ruby stone.
With the exception of the diamond no other gem is harder than a ruby.
It ranges in price from 13 to almost 4 000.
A rough ruby is a popular choice for those that have the skills to cut the stone into the different shapes and this allows them to customize the jewelry in a way that unique for the customer.
Ruby is the red variety of the mineral corundum.
Sapphire the other gem variety of corundum encompasses all colors of corundum.
In the 1950s synthetic star corundums known under the trade name linde stars enjoyed considerable popularity.
Most red agates will exhibit other colors in their patterns such as gray blue black and white.
Solid single color red agate gemstones are often dyed to imitate carnelian another closely related gemstone.
Andesine is an opaque gemstone with colors ranging from brown to a salmon pink color to orange to red.
Rubies have a hardness level of 9 0 topped only by the diamond at 10 0.
Red agate is a rare find with unicolor but banded red agate is quite common.
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Price ranges from 11 to around 100.
Beside for its bright color it is a most desirable gem due to its hardness durability luster and rarity transparent rubies of large sizes are even rarer than diamonds.
The term star ruby in addition to referring to rubies that display asterism many also refer to transparent red corundum too light or too purple to properly call ruby.
Hessonite garnet hessonite garnet is smooth and round and ranges in color from a yellow orange to a bright orange to a brownish amber color.
A very sturdy gem.
Ruby is distinguished for its bright red color being the most famed and fabled red gemstone.
The color is not always red.