This round red will have an active element of purple. It is the significant size of 5 carats ( one gram) and appears to be eye clean with a medium dark tone level..
A purple overtone with red (rubellite) is not unusual. Some people rate the red with a purple overtone very highly (and charge you for it) while others like the pinker reds. This situation is mirrored, with ruby from different locations. I like them both, (very big hearted of me) but I prefer reds that stay red with only a mild overtone in all white lights. That means they do not go brown or too purple. I am sure that this one will stay red while spicing it up with a sultry purple punch. It appears to be eye clean and weighs the magic number of 5 carats which makes it a “significant” stone in my book. To be “significant” the gemstone has to weigh at least 5 carats, which is a completely arbitrary number, of course. It is not held back by any flaws and has great crystal.
Bruce
About Bruce Fry
I was born in Summit, NJ in 1947 and graduated from Summit High School in 1966. I graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1970 and after spending another year in graduate school, I left to see the world of Brazil. After spending some more time discovering myself, I ended up working for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for 32 years as an Air Quality Engineer in the Department of Environmental Protection. I retired in 2007 and took up faceting gemstones again after a long hiatus that reached back to my twenties. I had started cutting cabochons when I was 13 and bought my first faceting machine when I was 15, but ran out of money and time until I retired.
My great love in gemology is tourmaline and the collection presented here represents my effort to get as much beauty and variety in the colors of tourmaline as I can. I was particularly lucky in being able to get unheated cuprian tourmaline before copper was discovered in gem grade tourmaline from Mozambique.
This round red will have an active element of purple. It is the significant size of 5 carats ( one gram) and appears to be eye clean with a medium dark tone level..
