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our selections of Ruby
To find our offerings for the order of your choice, please select
our Singles, Pairs, Sets, or Parcels categories. We are constantly
expanding and improving our inventory. But in case you fail to
find your desired item, please kindly revisit our site soon, or
simply place a Special Order.
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Singles:
Thanks to slight, often almost
imperceptible variations in color, sparkle, quality, and size, no
two natural gems are exactly alike. While this poses a challenge
in finding matching pairs, it also means that each and every stone
is in effect one of its kind. As a result, whatever stone you select
from our extensive inventory at algadgems.com, your selection
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Pairs:
While it's fairly easy
to find similar pairs of diamonds, with Gems it may take weeks,
or even months, to get two matching stones. Yet you need much more
than mere luck to spot a gemstone's twin sister: expert eyes and
the knowledge of where to look. We at algadgems.com have
them both and remain committed to finding the best pairs of stones
available.
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Sets:
In a set of stones, we look for the most pleasing combination of
color, sparkle, quality, and size. In addition, an arrangement's
defining features have to be characteristic of every individual
stone. Whereas each individual stone must be pleasing in itself,
it's the harmony of all the member stones that bring out a set's
unique beauty.
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Parcels:
For wholesalers and
retailers, we offer parcels (or lots) of high-quality gems, every
single one of which has been hand-selected by our experts. From
small parcels to larger orders, algadgems.com can provide
the world's choicest rubies, sapphires, emeralds
and myriad other gems.
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Medieval alchemists in Europe deemed
rubies to be of immense value, believing them to possess unsurpassed
magical powers to increase wealth. Their contemporaries in India
concurred: rubies attracted other precious gems like magnets to
their owners. Rubies were also important talismans: stones of
Mars, they bestowed invincibility and curative powers on their
bearers. They also conferred wisdom. "The price of wisdom
is above rubies," explains Job in the Bible.
Freedom fighters and revolutionaries
considered them tokens of liberty and justice. The Burmese, whose
land continues to produce the world's best rubies, used to believe
that the beautiful minerals ripened like so many fruits on earth:
the redder, the riper. Several people still maintain the idea
that rubies have the power to cleanse
your thoughts and replenish energy. Placed under your pillow,
rubies are said to guarantee undisturbed sleep and sweet dreams.
And of course, lovers have always esteemed them beyond mere material
value.
A variety of the mineral family
that also includes sapphires and is known as corundum, the crystal
form of aluminum oxide, rubies are the world's most prized gems.
Their stunning beauty, exceptional hardness (close second to diamonds),
and great rarity (the rarest of precious gems) all make rubies
the peerless Queen of Gemstones coveted by gem lovers worldwide.
Fine gem-grade rubies carry the greatest commercial value.
The mines of Myanmar (formerly Burma)
produce the world's largest yield of top-quality rubies, prized
for their distinctive crystal-clear deep-red hues. Neighboring
Thailand and Cambodia are famous for their dark to brownish-red
gems. Ceylon rubies (from Sri Lanka), in turn, sparkle in medium
to light tones, while Africa provides the world with its small
purplish-red stones. While rubies are often mined elsewhere, Thailand
remains the unrivalled world-center for the gem, along with sapphires,
with an estimated 80 percent of all the globe's rubies and sapphires
processed in Bangkok.
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