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Ruby is my birth stone, do I count as rare?

I have enjoyed the info on stones though, forgot all about the server.
On Jan 11, 2012 1:36 PM, "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 12:16 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> > > If you're my age you probably wouldn't live long enough to do that
> > > much laundry & dishwashing. You might have to get her a rock along
> > > with all of that, after all diamons are a girl's BF, aren't they?
> > >
>
> > She's a geologist and knows the true value of diamonds (nearly as common
> as
> > sand) so I'm off the hook for that :-)
>
> No joke.  If it wasn't for some crazy monopolies (DeBeers) diamonds
> would be about $5 a caret.
>
> > Emeralds and meteorites, however...
>
> Rubies are great too.  Natural ones have to occur in unnatural
> conditions that include moderately rare chromium while excluding much
> more common iron from the aluminate base mineral.
>
> Even more rare is Alexandrite where some (but not all) of the chromium
> is replaced by beryllium.  Still fluoresces red under a black light like
> any ruby (it's ruby at heart) but is a somber red under incandescent
> light while green or blue under indirect sunlight and purple under
> direct sunlight (thanks to that fluorescence).  Natural stones are
> insanely expensive.  Some high quality Brazilian stones I was looking at
> were $10,000 USD for 0.9 caret stone - LOOSE!  The center stone in my
> wedding ring was dug out of a lab, not out of the ground and has
> outstanding color change to it.  :-P
>
> They call that effect trichroic (three color) or dichroic (referring to
> any mineral or mirrors that separate colors).  Tanzanite is another
> dichroic but its color changes from blue to purple with the angle of the
> light hitting it.  That's the other two stones in my wedding ring.
> That's my only puzzle ring with stones.  The other two are just plain
> gold.
>
> > --
> > --
> > James P. Kinney III
> >
> > As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
> > consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
> > please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
> > - *2011 Noam Chomsky
> >
> > http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
> > *
> >
>
>
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