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GALLERY is devoted to images of specimens,
localities, activities, personalities, and anything else related to
corundum. This page is a site for group shots and a storage bin of
images not yet relocated to other pages where they will be more or less arranged geographically.
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Ruby druses are rare, but this one from
Spider Mountain, Mogok Stone Tract, Burma is superb (ex
coll. Bill Larson). |
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Gem ruby crystal from the Dat Taw Mine, Mogok Stone Tract,
Burma, showing wavy lines which often characterize Burmese corundum. |
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Gem complex, multiply terminated and multicolored crystal
from the Dat Taw Mine, Mogok, Burma. |
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Gem lilac crystal from the Dattaw Mine, Mogok, Burma. |
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This Mogok, Burma specimen is called "Ruby corundum
after caterpillar on piece of 100,000,000 year old
bread". The crystal is about 1-1/4 inches (3+
cm) long. Slightly altered, it is the subject of
Funny Caption Contest #4. |
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Unique pyramidal point of gem corundum resembling smoky
quartz in body color, covered with a white druse of as yet undetermined
composition (probably corundum or spinel); from Baw Mar, Burma. |
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Christmas Rock! Ruby in green fuchsite mica,
from the John Saul Mine, Mangari-Voi, Kenya. |
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Terminations of ruby clusters like this one from
Morogoro,
Tanzania are often faceted into mellee, but this one escaped. |
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Large, semitranslucent pale blue prismatic crystal from the
classic Steinkopf, Namaqualand (South Africa) locality. Note one end
shows significant layering. |
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Twinned crystals of Madagascan star sapphire corundum,
showing gem zone in upper left. |
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Another of the large,
Karnataka (Mysore), India doubly terminated
rubies. This one shows unusual twinning and layering close to the
"pinched" termination on the top of the picture. |
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Suite of small twins, clusters, and single crystals; from
Karnataka (Mysore) Province, India. The two on the right are actually (wafer)
offset hexagonal prisms (but two lateral faces are so narrow that the
outlines actually resemble parallelograms)! |
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Terminations of 8 pound crystal, purplish ruby corundum from
Tamil Nadu Province, India (see star cabochon, next photo). This
remarkable specimen may have survived because it was too big for the cabbers'
saws! (Also, this one does not show asterism.) |
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Purplish star ruby cabochon from
Tamil Nadu Province, India. |
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Small but nice gem interpenetrant twin from
Ratnapura, Sri
Lanka. |
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Rare gem "Sri Lanka Ruby" - note rich purplish lilac color! |
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Broken and recemented ruby in calcite, from
Viet Nam.
Note regular spacing of the zones of different colors! |
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Detail of termination of 4" long barrel-shaped grey
corundum crystal from Shimersville,
Pennsylvania. Another view of this crystal appears on
the "Americas" page. |
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Sapphires from
Yogo Gulch, Montana. This high resolution photograph came out so nicely
that I had to
stick it somewhere...makes great wallpaper! |
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American corundum.
Banner photo is a detail from this high resolution JPG. The
rubies are from Caler Creek, Cowee Valley, North
Carolina. The "cornflower" blue sapphires, also the subject
of the photo just above, are form Yogo Gulch,
Montana. The other sapphires are from several other
Montana localities, including
Gem Mountain (Rock
Creek), Dry Cottonwood Creek,
Pole Creek, and the
Missouri River bars near Helena. |
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