Mozambique ruby value

[Miki Moto]

You should google glass filled rubies. Lots of bad stories. Hope yours are real.

Like I said earlier... you are guessing as am I. Just send in one stone to AGL. I would if I was sitting on a jackpot. I would not mess around. What’s spending $500.00 to verify if you have a $100K stone! Not even a doubt in my mind to do it!

I sent in a stone I paid $12K for. You have 15-20 huge stones!

Please report back! I would love to hear how you made out!

Good luck! You may have hit the jackpot!

 

[Brandon Mccoy]

In the near future we will see the value of rubies drop for Mozambique and burmies rubies. I'm the last year sometime the US has opened the trade to import to us here after 11yrs. America is the world's leading buyers of rubies and after 11yrs of not being to import they are probably going to flood the market. It also gives me high hopes that my grandma's rubies are real beings that it's a lot easier to buy natural Mozambique and burmies rubies now.

 

[Brandon Mccoy]

You gotta love Google lol

 

[Brandon Mccoy]

Oh and thank you! I sure hope I did get lucky my little girl is 8yrs old and being able to pay for a good college education would be the best thing!

 

[Miki Moto]

You don’t need to convince us here the rubies are real. You need to convince a buyer.

And if you googled glass filled rubies, it’s everywhere.

And I even emailed eBay sellers who confirmed back to me they were glass filled hence the AGL is key if you want to get real money for your stones

 

[Miki Moto]

And if you think ruby prices will crash, for sure sell now! You have so many large stones.

Good luck! Let us know!

 

[Bron357]

Hi Brandon, no lemon juice is only a weak acid, nothing is going to happen in a hour or two, you need to leave the stones submerged in lemon juice for a minimum 2 days to start noticing any effect.
The “jewellers pickle” that can destroy a glass filled ruby within a few hours is a very strong and toxic acid, not the sort of thing you have (or want) at home. Jewellers pickle jewellery (except pearls, opals and emeralds for eg) after soldering to get rid of the heat burnish on the gold / platinum. Most natural (not all though) can easily withstand the strong acids used to clean the metal work, except rubies with glass filling, as it it will eat it away. If there’s just a bit of glass filling it’s not too bad, but if there’s lots of glass filling or silica, the strong acid will just dissolved it.
If you have a Loupe (a magnifying glass x 20) you can usually tell if a ruby is glass filled by looking carefully at the flat facets on the right angle. If you can see very fine squiggly lines on the surface, these are surface reaching fractures (which can be totally natural btw) but it’s these fractures that allows the glass filling to get in.
And as we keep advising, if you want to sell your rubies for their proper value, you will find that unless you have an AGL, Gubelin or GRS Swiss lab report (these are the trusted labs) that says “heat only, no evidence of residue or other treatment” you will have a lot of trouble finding a buyer.
A ruby, just heated, is worth thousands of dollars a carat.
A ruby, heated but with evidence of residue (even minor) or other treatment, is only worth a few dollars a carat.

 

[digdeep]

Brandon, you came here asking questions about 'rubies your grandma bought'........it appears you have decided what the answers are all by yourself. Members have respectfully offered scientifically based info to you that you've stated is irrelevant due to a "Google search". You are not convincing anyone that you have some hidden knowledge from an internet search. The same broad brush you are now painting with (from a Google Search)-- demonstrates exactly why people need to pay attention to what they are buying.

 

[Brandon Mccoy]

I know guys and I really do appreciate the opinions. Lab reports are not easy to pay for especially when your a single father scraping to make ends meet, $500 is not easy to come by. If I had the money I would have sent them off to a lab already. That's why I am trying to to do what I can to try and get the answers I need that's all.

 

[Brandon Mccoy]

I mean how do you deal with all these!

 

[suzanne2]

I know guys and I really do appreciate the opinions. Lab reports are not easy to pay for especially when your a single father scraping to make ends meet, $500 is not easy to come by. If I had the money I would have sent them off to a lab already. That's why I am trying to to do what I can to try and get the answers I need that's all.

Do you have any rubies that are under 3cts? If so, then for about $85 you can get a gem brief from AGL. The actual cost is $65 then add shipping. A Gem Brief is all you need. Go for it!

 

[Bron357]

My goodness, Grandma was busy! Were there any receipts or records of purchase for these in her papers? If you can find out where she bought them perhaps you could consign back to the seller (s) to sell them?
I too have acquired a heap of gemstones and even though I am studying to be a gemologist and have most the diagnostic equipment, if I want to sell any of them, I’m going to have to get proper certification.
It’s pretty hard to sell loose gemstones unless you’re a business or have appropriate business contacts and it’s because of all the fakes, synthetic and heavily treated stones out there. People are nowadays very suspicious and don’t trust easily.
As we’ve all said, if your gems are just “heated” they are worth a lot of money and with an AGL certificate easier to sell at their proper value. Without trusted certification, people will just think they are the same as those $20 ones on eBay.
If your Gemologist friend will buy them from you, as it, or can help you sell them that’s fabulous and hopefully you’ll get lots of money for yourself and your family.

 

[Brandon Mccoy]

Does anyone know what kind of gem this is? It looks like a blue aquamarine under electric light but it turned green in daylight! Thanks

 

[LilAlex]

...I have talked to my friend that has been a gemolagist for going on 30 yrs now and what he told me helped to put me at ease but also disturbing. He said he can easily do an appraisal on my stones for value. The disturbing thing is, and I can't believe he said this is that a gia certification is no different than any other lab in the world they all have the same information. And no matter what lab it is theirs a very slim chance that your gem is actually tested. Most all labs just archive and document the gem through a loup. Thats why on every lab cert from every lab has a disclaimer for discrepancy on the back! Certs are just a marketing scheam to drive up the market on prices and GIA is at the top of the list for driving the market up. He said you can have a gem with a cert from China get an appraisal on it for let's say $6000.00 then take that exact same gem get a gia certification on it and get it appraised and that gem will magicly jump in value! It's a marketing scheam to drive prices up and when people hear gia they instantly feel at ease. GIA laboratories make millions of dollars for looking at gems through a loup and putting information on a basic certificate that anyone can get online. I hate to day it but it makes me look at certs a whole other way especially when this info is coming from a GIA certified gemolagist.

Sorry but this person is either horribly misinformed (which seems unlikely for decades in the business) or a cheat. I would run from this person, friend or not. A cert from a reputable lab can show that it is genuine, unenhanced (or how it is enhanced), and region of origin. A "cert" from a disreputable source is just another advertisement.

 

[Bron357]

Does anyone know what kind of gem this is? It looks like a blue aquamarine under electric light but it turned green in daylight! Thanks

Natural colour gems include Alexandrite, garnet, sapphire and fluorite. They are also a number of synthetic or fake colour change gems around.
And sorry, but I found this online from the same lab in India as your rubies. And no, despite the lab report that is not an Alexandrite, not even close. This is why I am so dubious about the rubies you have with reports from the same Indian lab.

 

[LilAlex]

Maybe he will buy them from you or help you resell.

Respectfully, NEVER sell anything to your "appraiser." Cars, houses, gems, coins, stamps, guns, etc. First law of anything. Reputable appraisers will not offer to "take it off your hands." Ever seen Pawn Stars?

 

[VividRed]

@Brandon Mccoy

Have you sent these rubies to AGL?