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Rubies, Rubies, Rubies Fura is a privately owned company that mines emeralds, rubies and sapphires through its subsidiaries in Colombia, Mozambique and Australia.
Some composite rubies -- stones filled with glass -- have been sold in major department stores as the real thing.
The colors of rubies and emeralds are so striking that they define shades of red and green — ruby red and emerald green. But have you ever wondered how they get those colors? One feature of ...
Romancing the ruby While diamonds may be a girl's best friend, rubies can be the real rock stars. The Sunrise Ruby, a 25.5-carat stone, made history in 2015 as the most expensive colored gemstone ...
A 55.22-carat ruby has become both the largest and most valuable gem of its kind ever to sell at auction, netting $34.8 million on Thursday.
Upon dropping by Rubies, last week, the comedian wrote in an Instagram post that the Durham space offers a “fierce, human light.” ...
Even though emeralds and rubies are very different colors, they both have the same secret ingredient in their atomic structure.
CBS 2's Pam Zekman takes ruby earrings to some gem experts to determine whether buyers are being misled.
The world’s largest ruby to appear at auction will be offered at Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels auction in New York on June 8. Named the Estrela de FURA, it weighs 55.22 carats. Sotheby’s has ...
The team determined the ruby was older than 2.5 billion years old, back in a time when there wasn't much oxygen on Earth and "life existed only in microorganisms and algae films." The team's ...
While analyzing some of the world's oldest colored gemstones, researchers discovered carbon residue that was once ancient life, encased in a 2.5 billion-year-old ruby.