Also addresses the topics of enhancement, heat treatment, smuggling, and provenance of rubies and discusses the unique properties of Burmese rubies and sapphires. Provides tips on buying rubies in Burma. Includes heretofore unpublished statistics about historical and recent production and sales of rubies in Burma and a hitherto unpublished listing of significant rubies and sapphires sold from 1965 to 2002.
34 b-&-w photos; 34 color plates; maps and tables.
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After moving to the U.S. in the 1960s for a long career in medicine, he earned his graduate gemologist degree from the Gemological Institute of America and studied mineralogy at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Frequent trips to Burma over the past twenty years have allowed him to gather a wealth of information and statistics. Able to speak Burmese, Hindi, and Urdu as well as English, he gathers together in "Burma Ruby" a lifetime of experience and knowledge, focusing it on Burma's celebrated rubies.
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