Buying natural rubies is afraid of being cheated? I can't teach you yet!

March 20, 2021

Due to the high market price of rubies, there are also many ways to improve the quality of gemstones. Today, if you are flooded with a lot of ruby ​​products, whether you are paying for a good value for ruby ​​or throwing a lot of money to buy it back. What about a fake? Let's take a look at the various "small moves" around the ruby.

Artificial optimization of ruby

Heat treatment

Way: When the ruby ​​is heated to a temperature, the color of the ruby ​​can be improved, the transparency is improved, part of the ribbon and some inclusions can be eliminated, and some cracks are healed, so that the lower quality ruby ​​becomes Higher grade ruby.

(inflated air bubbles inside after heat treatment)

About 80% of the rubies on the market today are artificially optimized to varying degrees. The most common one is heat treatment, which is commonly known as "burning." Since heat treatment is a purely physics method, it is thought to be understood as making up for the shortcomings of nature. Nowadays, the jewelry industry has generally accepted this kind of treatment, which is considered to be acceptable and permissible. It can be equivalent to real natural ruby. It is sold at an equivalent price without special statement. Even if it is identified, it is not considered fraud. However, even so, many people are still pursuing the red treasure without burning.

Redyeing

Method: Re-staining Even if the diffusion treatment technology is artificially chemically treated, the chromium oxide in the chemical reagent is poured into the crystal lattice of the corundum, so that the colorless corundum obtains the ability to produce red.

Although its coloration mechanism is exactly the same as that of natural ruby, and it does not fade with time, people still regard this method as a post-processing because it is artificially added with chemical agents into the interior of the gemstone. Gemstones that have been so dyed in this way cannot be sold in the same way as natural rubies.

Three synthetic methods of ruby

威纽易法

Synthetic rubies are the most problematic problem compared to artificially optimized rubies. The earliest synthetic ruby ​​was first made of alumina powder by a French chemist Wei Nuoyi. The synthetic ruby ​​has flooded the market. People not only use it to make some cheap decorative jewelry, but also use it as a natural ruby.

Flux method

In 1963, Chatham Company of the United States used a flux method to synthesize a new synthetic ruby ​​called Chatham Ruby. These fluxing methods synthesize rubies, which are more similar in appearance to natural rubies and are therefore more deceptive. To identify the microscopic features between counterfeit rubies and natural rubies, it is very difficult for most ordinary investment collectors. Therefore, it is best to ask the relevant appraisal agencies for detailed appraisal.

(Zoom in 30 times to see the fluxing method inside the red treasure inside the straight growth pattern)

Hydrothermal

The hydrothermal synthesis of rubies is more difficult to identify than the flux synthesis of rubies. The most important identifying feature is still the presence of seed crystals; in addition, some "bread-like" inclusions can sometimes be seen; others have some micro-corrugated texture.

If these features are not found, they can only rely on detailed measurements of more sophisticated large instruments such as infrared spectrometers and electron probes.

Ruby natural avatar

Red spinel is often mistaken in nature for red ruby ​​ruby, in addition to red garnet, red tourmaline and so on. For example, in the East China Sea of ​​Jiangsu Province, it is called "Suling Ruby" and "Hailian Ruby", which are actually garnet.

(From left to right: tourmaline, garnet, spinel)

The same garnet, in foreign countries, has the title of "Arizona Ruby" and "Bohemian Ruby". The so-called "Brazilian Ruby" is red topaz, "Siberian Ruby" is red tourmaline and so on.

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