Black Ruby Stone

In the past cabbed blood red gemstones were known collectively as carbuncles.

Black ruby stone.

Both registration and sign in support using google and facebook. It can also serve a number of different purposes for that piece whether it s contrasting the rest of the stones complimenting similar stones or just standing alone as a statement piece. The word ruby comes from ruber latin for red. Since ruby is a fairly emotionally driven stone you may also be interested in pairing it with stones that have highly intellectual powers such as prehnite and amethyst.

Ruby is the red variety of the mineral corundum. Beside for its bright color it is a most desirable gem due to its hardness durability luster and rarity transparent rubies of large sizes are even rarer than diamonds. This will encourage balance between your emotional and intellectual minds and make sure that they work in tandem instead of letting one consistently overrule the other. The color of a ruby is due to the element chromium.

A ruby is a pink to blood red coloured gemstone a variety of the mineral corundum aluminium oxide other varieties of gem quality corundum are called sapphires ruby is one of the traditional cardinal gems together with amethyst sapphire emerald and diamond. Ruby is distinguished for its bright red color being the most famed and fabled red gemstone. In the art deco period onyx added contrast to ruby and quartz jewelry designs. Black stone can bring an unexpected beauty to a piece of jewelry.

As the science of gemology developed many historically important rubies such as the famed black prince s ruby of the british crown jewels proved to be other red gems most often red spinels.