Its mine is located in Malawi, Africa. He is a fellow of the Geological Society and a Member of the Royal Institution. The chain of events which takes a gemstone from a mine to a customer is long, mysterious and can involve a price uplift of as much as thirty times. Few products are as open to debate on quality and price. Few people know less about what they are buying than when they walk into a jeweller's shop.
Rubies are arguably the rarest of the truly precious stones.
They should be the most expensive and in some instances they are. Such treatments were rarely disclosed until recently. Even now disclosure is confined to the finer pieces, but when certified as untreated they now command a growing and sizeable premium. Agricola Resources mines perhaps the only deposit of naturally occurring red ruby known today. The Chimwadzulu Mine in Malawi, central Africa produces deep red stones of often exceptional size and clarity.