In this video Derek and I drive all the way up to North Carolina to go hunting for Ruby and Sapphire Corundum crystals at the world famous Propst Farm near Lincolnton, NC. This was my first time ...

Sometimes George Harlow looks more like a medieval magician than the curator of gems and minerals at the American Museum of Natural History. Sweeping an ultraviolet light wand over a box of rocks in a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Gem hunters have always been natural geologists, seeking the mother lode long before researchers ...

The Ruby is known as the king of gemstones because of its deep red colour, rarity, high economic value, and strong historical ...

THE three works cited below give much new and valuable information concerning the mode of occurrence, the processes of mining, and the uses of corundum. As the mineral is of growing economic value, ...

LARGE crystals of corundum have been grown for many years by the flame-fusion process originated by Verneuil 1. Crystals coloured by small amounts of chromium, titanium, vanadium and other transition ...