Raw ruby

[redhairsasori]

Is this crack or inclusion on the ruby surface?

 

[VividRed]

Crack

 

[redhairsasori]

Will it be very deep? Is it worth 150USD? It is about 8-10 ct.

 

[dk168]

Will it be very deep? Is it worth 150USD? It is about 8-10 ct.

As a mineral specimen, yes.

Not sure if it is worth it for cutting as it is very included IMHO.

DK

 

[Avondale]

Will it be very deep? Is it worth 150USD? It is about 8-10 ct.

No one can tell you how deep it is by a photo alone. However, we can apply some basic logic. First of all, we can assume with a great degree of certainty that if this ruby could've been faceted, it would've been faceted. It is likely the fracture runs through the stone, it's also likely there are other fractures as well, making any attempt at faceting unfeasible. Furthermore, this ruby doesn't seem to have great transparency... or any transparency, to be frank. It does have pretty colour, though. So they left it in the marble matrix and are selling it as a specimen.

If you buy it, you're buying it to display it on a shelf somewhere and spend your time divided between enjoying it and getting annoyed at it for all the dust it collects.

 

[VividRed]

It won’t break unless you drop it.

150USD is ok for a specimen like this. I have a smaller one, from Mogok, that I paid twice as much. Did not regret it

 

[Karl_K]

Its value is as art not as a gemstone.

 

[Nick_G]

It also looks like there's a straight line running diagonally across the crystal faces, which would be a lamellar twinning plane. They can be a point of weakness so crystals can split along these planes if they are whacked hard enough.

It's a lovely specimen. It remind me a little of one I bought a few years ago: