3.88 ct. Natural Six Rays Star Ruby gemstone with Asterism

Natural star ruby loose gemstone available for sale on our online gems store. This beautiful red stone comes from Madagascar, where it was genuine earth mined, shaped into an oval cabochon, this loose star ruby present the typical optical effect called asterism, with a well defined six rays star dancing on the surface of the stone. This star ruby display a vivid red color hue with strong saturation and medium tone, clarity for this stone is translucent, but it has nice and vivid color, nice proportions and size which is perfect to create an original jewel, like a ring or a pendant. Ruby is one of the most hard precious stone, it has an hardness of 9 on the Mohs scale.