How to Spot a Fake Ruby..

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Avi The Gem Guy

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Well i think we all know that he is gonna sell it anyways the next day saying something like "the best quality from Colombia, only for you my friend" 😂

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So I recently learned quite a bit about rubies….

They’re so cheap the glass filled ones. I heard someone recently say on a video they had a ruby that wasn’t heat treated. It took me down a rabbit hole.

Basically, and I’m oversimplifying and don’t know Jack about rubies except for this great documentary I watched that there are three types of rubies:

- unheated
- heated
-glass filled

They classify rubies according to something called the 4C’s and OT.

The four C’s relate to weight, clarity, cut and colour. The OT is treatment of the ruby and o is the origin of the ruby. All of these will determine the price of it.

Glass filled rubies are sometimes considered “composites”, because they aren’t 100% rubies.

Heat treatment is literally a permanent process that is heating rubies in a crucible to improve their colour and clarity.

Natural rubies can be somewhat milky in appearance which is why they treat them, but a good quality, unheated ruby of good origin (certain countries are preferred over others, like an Afghanistan ruby isn’t as valuable as a Myanmar ruby, or more commonly known as a “Burmese Ruby”) that meets the highest qualities of the 4Cs go for the most.

While composite rubies that are glass filled are worth mere dollars for a 1 carat stone, there is a huge chasm between that and even heat treated rubies.

Another awesome thing about rubies? They fluoresce under a UV light. The less iron in your Ruby, the more it will fluoresce.

They are also one of the original gemstones considered worthy of royalty and trading, along with diamonds and emeralds and sapphires and a couple of others.

And that’s all I know about rubies.

That’s not true - in the documentary they showed us the bubbles you can see in a glass filled/composite Ruby and the cracks that form as well.

*EDITED TO SAY THAT…* a few people have rightly corrected me. I said the four Cs and then proceeded to list three Cs and then a word not beginning with C.

The four “Cs” are:

- Cut
- Clarity
- Colour
- Carat ….this is the one I mislabelled. I did describe it correctly, but I meant to say carat, which refers to the size and weight of the stone, which will of course, like the other “Cs” affect the value of the stone.

OT refers to:

*”Origin”* - where the stone came from, which again, has an impact on price
*”Treatment”* - how the stone is treated, as in the case for rubies, refers to if it has been heated or if it has been infused with glass, which after reading the above, we all know devalues the stone and makes it a composite - not a true Ruby, but a composite of different materials.

Thank you to those of you who caught this or asked about it and I hope this clears it up! I wanted to say that everyone on this comment thread has been so very kind and lovely, and you don’t get a lot of that when posting on YouTube, so I wanted to say a big *_THANK YOU_* to everyone! ❤️ 🇨🇦 Expat living in the 🇬🇧

Bigbaymonstermare

Bro would probably still be like 1200 per carat

Drenamow

Cause it's a piece of sh*** 😂😂😂😂🖤 loved this one, I love seeing the analysis/review ahahaha

MrKylePopovich

I have no interest in gemology at all but this channel is awesome, relaxing, informative and interesting.

ImaginalComponent

Super cool insight Avi! Love these videos that teach you a bit as well.

Big fan of the negotiation videos too.

Appreciate you!

jin

Avi i really enjoy your videos. Thanks for good content!

joediggity

Another tip for rubies is a blacklight don't forget to get a blacklist flashlight for the handy dandy ruby finds lol plus I would never have bought that ruby look at the cracks and inclusions just with a camera and naked eye lol

calvinweed

Can’t blame that second guy for thinking he was meeting an 18 year old lol

pieterpennings

I wish they showed how they look under the microscope. I've never heard of glass filled rubies before.

Delicate_Disaster

I swear all of his videos comment sections are split in two, with one half loving the insight and the other half hating on how the guy negotiates

tylerwroblewski

Aaaand, that's why buying jewelry is a bad idea xD

dacianatrif

Even without the magnifier you can see unnatural bubbling and impurities under the surface

ItsCheetahTV

This is why when I buy things I speak to a geologist they'll tell you what it is and it's from the dirt

rubenperez-bxpl

I feel like companies that sell fake jewelry under the premise they are real, they should face some of the highest fines. It should be taken to court.

mattpresley