Old Mines Burma Ruby

An old pathé film of nearly a century ago shows ruby mining in northern burma myanmar in the valley of the rubies also called mogok stone tract.

Old mines burma ruby.

The pan african orogeny happened about 750 to 450 million years ago the result of which created gem deposits in kenya tanzania mozambique madagascar sri lanka and southern india. The burma ruby mines a. Ratna jyoti offering old mines burma ruby र ब ज मस ट न र ब रत न at rs 435000 piece in bardhaman west bengal. Circa 1900 the british company burma ruby mines ltd.

Rest assured your burma ruby stone will do the needful leaving everyone around in awe. Problem is there are almost no visually pure color in nature so we speak of a mixture of colors. Recent political developments in burma myanmar have led to foreigners being allowed to visit mogok since 2013 but still requiring a special permission visa to do so. Officially a burmese ruby is the ruby mined from the mogok tract of upper burma.

A lot of the finest ruby and sapphire mines fall into such zones according to hughes book. Get contact details and address id. Pictured above a gem quality 2 09 carat natural old mine burma ruby with a grs pigeon s blood certificate the short answer is simply that rubies should be red. We all want a ruby in our gem collection.

A book that presents summaries of the mining operations for various minerals and ores and includes a chapter on the ruby mines of burma that describes the history of the area and the mining methods used to locate rubies. Rubies from burma are addressed by many names including mogok ruby old burma ruby rangoon ruby and more. The toungoo empire took it from a shan king in the 16th century and the british established burma ruby mines ltd. Old mines burma ruby.

A 5 17 carat burmese ruby from omi gems. In 1889 three years after their empire officially colonized burma. That leased mining areas used extensive mechanisation in order to increase gemstone yields and profits. Williams the romance of mining chap.

In gems we normally speak of a primary and a secondary color or hue. About 90 of the world s rubies come from. Burma now myanmar is a rich source of ruby mines that has produced high quality rubies since sixteenth century. Ratna jyoti ratna jyoti founded in 2004 ratna jyoti has grown to become the largest online retailer of certified diamonds gems real rudraksha and fine jewelry with all type astrology services govt.