Ruby (rare style of crystal) on Calcite

Mogok Township, Pyin-Oo-Lwin Dist., Mandalay, Myanmar
Miniature, 3.5 x 3.0 x 1.3 cm
Start Time: 08/04/2022 7:00:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 08/11/2022 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
Auction Closed
Winning Bid: $1,700

Item Description

Rubies from Mogok are the most highly valued in the world, both in gems or in minerals. The mining here is insane, with 500,000 workers in the Mogok Valley mining every day and splitting the few things found. It is, in one word, humbling (the 2017 Dallas Mineral Collecting Symposium - dallassymposium.org - featured a talk and video, on the matter). Specimens are so few, and now I understand why. It is incredibly rare to find an aesthetic ruby that has any gemminess at all because of the extreme competition to get quick cash from cutting them, and then to keep it from being cut is as great a challenge. This aesthetic miniature specimen showcases a stunning pseudo-octahedron pinkish ruby which measured 0.6-0.7 cm on the cleaved calcite crystal. EX: Jingnan (Tom) Zhang collection.

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Bidding History

Bid Amount Bid Time
$1,700 08/10/2022 12:15:04 am (CDT)
$1,650 * 08/10/2022 12:14:59 am (CDT)
$1,650 * 08/10/2022 12:14:59 am (CDT)
$1,600 08/07/2022 12:29:24 pm (CDT)
$1,590 08/07/2022 12:29:23 pm (CDT)
$1,450 08/07/2022 12:29:13 pm (CDT)
$1,400 08/07/2022 12:29:13 pm (CDT)
$1,350 08/07/2022 12:29:02 pm (CDT)
$1,300 08/07/2022 12:29:02 pm (CDT)
$1,250 08/06/2022 5:50:50 pm (CDT)
$1,200 08/06/2022 5:50:50 pm (CDT)
$1,004 08/06/2022 5:29:52 pm (CDT)
$979 08/06/2022 5:29:51 pm (CDT)
$925 08/06/2022 5:29:36 pm (CDT)
$900 08/06/2022 5:29:36 pm (CDT)
$675 08/06/2022 3:42:55 pm (CDT)
$650 08/06/2022 3:42:55 pm (CDT)
$508 08/06/2022 2:37:36 pm (CDT)
$498 08/06/2022 2:37:36 pm (CDT)
$490 08/06/2022 10:32:29 am (CDT)
$480 08/06/2022 10:32:29 am (CDT)
$470 08/06/2022 10:32:21 am (CDT)
$460 08/06/2022 10:32:21 am (CDT)
$450 08/06/2022 10:32:13 am (CDT)
$440 08/06/2022 10:32:13 am (CDT)
$430 08/05/2022 4:51:52 pm (CDT)
$420 08/05/2022 4:51:52 pm (CDT)
$410 08/05/2022 4:51:30 pm (CDT)
$400 08/05/2022 4:51:29 pm (CDT)
$385 08/05/2022 4:50:39 pm (CDT)
$375 08/05/2022 4:50:39 pm (CDT)
$365 08/05/2022 4:41:43 pm (CDT)
$355 08/05/2022 4:41:43 pm (CDT)
$110 08/05/2022 11:26:09 am (CDT)
$100 08/05/2022 11:26:09 am (CDT)
$60 08/05/2022 1:23:16 am (CDT)
$50 08/05/2022 1:23:16 am (CDT)
$46 08/05/2022 1:23:04 am (CDT)
$41 08/05/2022 1:23:04 am (CDT)
$36 08/04/2022 8:20:42 pm (CDT)
$31 08/04/2022 8:20:42 pm (CDT)
$10 08/04/2022 7:06:35 pm (CDT)
* Proxy Bid Battle: In the event of two customers inputting matching proxy bids, the leading bid goes to the earliest of the two proxy bids. Tie winners are shown in bold.