I went out panning this morning and found a crystal shaped rock that is red. I was out panning since the water level is way down right now..Lots of new exposed area to get to. Saw a decent sized red and black rock in my classifier. Picked it up and went to chuck it in the river when I noticed it had a crystal type shape to the base of it. So it figured one of my kids would clean it up and keep it for their rock collections.
Now I have it cleaned up, and its a dead ringer pic wise of a large sapphire or ruby. Have looked at lots of pictures that its a dead ringer for. After cleaning it up I held it up to the kitchen window and noticed I can see through the base of it.
What is this? How do I have it tested? Did I make a real find?
Sorry pics aint better... it is a cheap cell phone.
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only bad thing is its not a super valuable one. Its just a big lower quality gem. I'm gonna have it cut into 2 pendants one for the devil woman I call my wife and one for my daughter.
Sorry for the delay got the flu. It has been confirmed as a 19.6 gram or 98 ct ruby. I'm super stoked about it hoping I can find a few more of them. I'm so used to grams and ounces that the whole carat things messes me up.
my first guess is garnet.
Difficult to tell by picture. Perhaps, google "ruby vs garnet" and follow some of the tests. Main one is hardness (ruby is harder). Also, if I recall correctly, ruby absorbs yellow (and green I think), so if you hold it to the sunlight and can see a bit of rainbow - if you see yellow, it is not a ruby. It would be very cool if you have a ruby.
Could be an unpolished beautie ya found their lad be sure to find out what it is
taking it to a gemologist tomorrow.
pretty cool let me know what it is ok