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Treasures of the Earth

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Geographic Origin:
Mogok - Burma (Myanmar)

Treatments:
Unheated with indications of clarity enhancement with oil

Gemologist's Comments on Treatments:
As a business policy, we don't stock heated, treated, or enhanced gemstones. However, some Burmese rubies invariably come into contact with oil during their life, from mining to cutting/polishing to selling. This is because oil is commonly used as a lubricant for cleaning/storing rough rubies and facilitating the cutting/polishing process.

Also, due to their natural growth conditions and recovery methods, almost all Burmese rubies contain surface-reaching features. Therefore, the oil may seep into these features even when not intended as a treatment.

For this reason, clarity enhancement - particularly with oil - is a common and widely accepted trade practice for Burmese rubies.

While this particular ruby is unheated, indications of clarity enhancement with oil are observed.

Transparency:
Transparent

Clarity Grade:
Included

Clarity Grade Description:
Included

Gemologist's Comments on Clarity:
Due to their natural growth conditions and recovery methods, rubies from Burma (Myanmar) commonly have features such as growth tubes, fingerprint inclusions, rutile silk clouds, and other microscopic inclusions that may affect the transmission of light to a certain extent. For this reason, despite being fully transparent, Burmese rubies may not show luster & scintillation as prominently as rubies from other localities.

The features seen in the stone's pavilion are naturally occurring rough, unpolished surface areas. When cutting & polishing rubies, it's a common practice to intentionally keep certain portions of the stone in the natural, rough, unpolished form, particularly in the pavilion/bottom of the stone. This is done to preserve the carat weight and maintain the stone's overall shape/symmetry. Such minor external features are commonly seen in most natural & unheated/untreated rubies, especially ones from Burma. Since they are located in the pavilion, they don't affect the stone's clarity, face-up appearance, or luster.

Large Size:
The size of this gemstone is large compared to the commonly available sizes in this species/variety, making it rare and highly sought-after.

This item is accompanied by the following gemological report. We will ship the original report along with the item.

Lotus Gemology report # 2053-3536

• The accompanying Lotus report authenticates this gemstone as a "Natural Ruby" of "Myanmar (Burma)" origin with a comment stating "No indications of heating".