Ruby Jewelry

Ruby gem, ruby gems, ruby gemstone, ruby gold,  ruby pendant.

- A ruby is a gemstone to make beautiful jewelry out of it,

sometimes of high value, sometimes of low value, and sometimes a fake , very popular in Thailand via heat treatment, sometimes

ruby even fetch a higher price than a comparable diamond.

Ruby gemstones came until recently mainly from Myanmar - Burma, called Myanmar or Burmese Ruby jewelry. Since the production slowly dries up, it is almost impossible to get real good rubies from Myanmar - Burma anymore other places come in.

Promising ruby sources for new ruby jewelry are developed in Madagascar by investors from Thailand and elsewhere.

Madagascar has a similar situation like Myanmar - Burma, tumbling from one problem into the next for decades.  That means all kind of fortune hunters come  to find some valuable gemstones to create beautiful jewelry , not only ruby.

Madagascar's soil contains plenty of precious stones for beautiful jewelry such a ruby, sapphire, emerald, amethyst, aquamarine, garnet rhodolite, tsavorite, peridot, blue and pink Sapphire, tanzanite, tourmaline and other, like Quartz, marble,bauxite, fluorine and dolomite are other valuable resources hidden in the deep.

- Most of the gem stones in Madagascar are 'harvested'  by artisianal miners.

Since the lack of investment capital in Madagascar is evident due to the political instability -a small clan with strong connections to France -France is the second most supporter of Africans looting their country. If you want to know more various precious stones have a look here, Chantaburi in Thailand is the main trading point on precious stones in Asia, most people just don't know it.
 

The Madagascar clan around the people who are on power controls almost everything which brings money via export.

Resources of semiprecious and precious gemstones are not exploited at large scale and practically no downstream business like excellent modern style ruby jewelry is done locally.

That means the real money with all of all kind of  ruby jewelry, like ruby ring jewelry, ruby earring jewelry, ruby necklace jewelry, ruby bracelet jewelry and other is made outside the country via the value added jewelry item. Today Myanmar and Madagascar only function as a ruby gemstone supplier mainly to Thailand and Singapore.

There they manufacture all the beautiful ruby engagement ring jewelry, ruby and diamond ring jewelry, ruby pendants and all other kind of ruby jewelry.

- Mogok in central Myanmar

somehow is the Ruby Capital of the world, about 120km north of Mandalay and is the main mining area for Myanmar Ruby.

Mogok is almost a synonym for ruby, Rubies, gem market, ruby mining, ruby digging, ruby extraction, ruby exploration in Myanmar - Burma.

The people in Mogok are a showcase of the ethnic minorities in Myanmar - Burma. All kind of tribes like Lisus, Shans, Gurkhas, Kachins, Bamars, Chinese, Shan are there and try to get their share of the 'ruby cake'.

In 2009 three were over 300,000 people living in the Mogok area made up of Lisus, Shans, Gurkhas, Kachins, Bamars, Chinese and Shan, almost all of them make a living from the gemstone business. The town has a number of living examples of the ‘rags to riches’ success story. Some are immensely wealthy. These lucky ones are no doubt a source of inspiration and act as an incentive to the many  thousands of miners who are hoping to strike it rich.

 There are over 1,000 mines within an area of approximately 4,864 square kilometres around Mogok. The two main types are open-  cut and tunnel mines. Depending on the size and capital outlay for the mine, the gem bearing soil is dug by machines or manually.

The soil containing gravel and other substances is mixed with water, conveyed to wooden receptacles containing a series of metal sieves and washed thoroughly with copious amounts of water. The gravel and other solid matter are then carefully examined and gems are collected.

- Open Air Ruby Market

Ruby Jewelry shops selling ruby and other gemstones in the usual sense of the word are absent from Mogok. Instead, transactions take place everyday of the week morning and evening in a huge public park. Three-hundred to four-hundred people congregate in Htar park to inspect gems either with the naked eye or by means of pencil-lite torch or lens. Prospective buyers and sellers sit around on the park benches or stand in small groups to conduct their business.

Htar means a copper tray - right picture- it is the main form to display the ruby and this name for a trade in gems originated many years ago when stones were displayed in copper trays.

Ruby sorting Mogok Myanmar Burma

 

Raw Ruby from the mine
Thailand's Chantaburi the trading place in Asia for precious and semi precious stones.