Discover the Hidden World of Ruby and Sapphire!

[@vanessadoe1740]

Thank you so much! Your videos have taught my boyfriend and I so much. I'm pretty sure we have discovered a sapphire motherload on his property were going to have to figure out the next steps to take!! Your book is on my Christmas list.

[@ChrisRalph]

I'm glad to hear you both enjoy the videos.

[@atifmehmoodkhan7056]

Sir So nice of you ❤ for such a beautiful informative video ❤❤❤

[@ChrisRalph]

It's my pleasure

[@ophmankondowe2338]

Thank you so much Chris for your presentation. I am just 6 monyhs in gold and ruby prospecting and am getting real stuff to advance my new career from your presentations.

[@ChrisRalph]

Best of luck to you!

[@ophmankondowe2338]

@@ChrisRalph Thank you. I have found some pagmetite rocks at a ridge along the river in the northern region of Malawi,.this rock hosts quartz,feldspers and micas. Please enlighten me on the potential minerals I may possibly find.

[@ChrisRalph]

Pegmatite rocks can contain almost anything to almost nothing. I have no idea what yours might have.

[@johnsmith9565]

I wish i new 10% of what u know .I live in Montana. Your a great teacher..awesome editor. Great filmmaker

[@ChrisRalph]

I appreciate that! Thanks.

[@bantalee2002]

Thanks Chris. My son purchased me 5 bags from the Montana Gem mine in Philipsburg Montana(birthday gift). I wanted to review what you shown so i don't miss anything when i process the material.

[@ChrisRalph]

Sounds great! I'm sure you will enjoy the hunt.

[@bantalee2002]

@@ChrisRalph Did i hear you say you are a geologist? My wife was a geologist,graduated from Beloit College,wisc.

[@jamesmclane2826]

I learn so much from your videos 🎥😃🤔I’m still gonna buy your book when I can😊👍✊️✊️

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@jillmondt5398]

Thank you.

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad it was helpful.

[@robertshafer5940]

I love the knowledge THANK YOU!

[@ChrisRalph]

You are so welcome!

[@suryasharmapulivarthi5788]

SIR VERY VERY VALUABLE INFORMATION FOR EVERY BODY THOSE WHO ARE WORKING IN THE GEM ROUGH FIELDS, THANK YOU SIR FOR YOU'RE KIND INFORMATION, THIS IS SURYA SHARAM INDIA 🇮🇳 THANK YOU SIR

[@ChrisRalph]

Greetings SURYA SHARAM - best of luck to you.

[@BlueAvians]

Excellent presentation! Is it industry practice to heat treat rubies or is this more common with other colored corundums? Thanks!

[@ChrisRalph]

Heat is common with all forms of corundum. But stones that are naturally fine and don't need heat treatment are more valuable.

[@billandpamwalsh4668]

Thank You Very Much

[@ChrisRalph]

You are welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

[@brunocassivi4979]

I want to express my total gr@titude. Your are the Best teacher withinn the Better. Merci beaucoup Yul . Tres grande Gr@titude . Autodidacte prospector . St- John Quebec.

[@ChrisRalph]

Thanks for the kind words. You are very welcome

[@onewearycatfromtexas2066]

Sir! They are the Most Beautiful Raw and rough ❤️! Folks sir, many by in observation don't realize, ya know, once any stones quartz ! Once it's fired it's all zero properties! Then becomes complete crap! I've been studying sir the stones for healing and spiritual meaning. About fifteen years now. Yessir! There is even still soooo much to learn and know! God Bless you sir!

[@ChrisRalph]

Thanks for the kind words.

[@onewearycatfromtexas2066]

Yessir. Everytime c'mon💛🧡🙏

[@aforgottennativeamerica8439]

Excellent just the information I was looking for

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Indrid__Cold]

I love the corundum gem family. It's the ones I own are lab grown by a company called Chatham. Their uncut gems are the most beautiful crystals in existence.

[@ChrisRalph]

I own a Chatham ruby crystal.

[@Indrid__Cold]

@@ChrisRalph How big is it? My largest Chatham ruby crystals are 41.5 and 65.5 carats respectively. I would love to see a picture if possible.

[@okboomer6201]

"Oh corundum!" is what I holler when I stub my toe.

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@julietjackson2918]

I love this. 😂

[@creativeworld4237]

Thanks old timer, lernt many things here,

[@ChrisRalph]

My child, it is good for you to learn new things.

[@danpollard4210]

Sorry I meant Spokane bar good stones there Bruce worked there.a friend of mine,David Tunes murdered out there.killers not found. an unsolved mystery I hope will be solved.

[@danpollard4210]

Rock creek very good Philipsburg.

[@danpollard4210]

Chatoyant

[@dunnsdiaite8085]

Excellent work

[@ChrisRalph]

Many thanks, glad you enjoyed the video.

[@user-ke8st8jc1v]

Great video!

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@420Brew]

The wind hits your Mic. What mineral is mixed with Corrundum to make Ruby?

[@ChrisRalph]

You can't always have the best weather conditions and I was only there a few days, so it was either film in the wind or forget it. I chose to film. Corrundum with traces of chromium is ruby.

[@420Brew]

Right but sapphires require Aluminum oxide correct?

[@seditt5146]

The oxidizing environment turns them Yellow, Reduction turns them blue. Generally a fancy burn( oxidation) takes place and the most yellow are those thrown in the final reduction burn.

[@ChrisRalph]

OK.

[@Dappertrucker]

I found a round stone with 3 sides red with orange brown ish shining red under light at a tx loves truck stop feeling smooth in the hand not sure what it may be

[@ChrisRalph]

There are about 500 minerals that can be found in some shade of reddish brown, so its probably one of them.

[@Dappertrucker]

@Chris Ralph, Professional Prospector maybe I got some sort of ruby in rough who knows any idea where I can take my collection to for telling me what I actually got

[@ChrisRalph]

Perhaps to a nearby university? I don't even know what country you are in.

[@Dappertrucker]

@Chris Ralph, Professional Prospector united states

[@markkent8947]

Hey, I was wondering if you know of any highly recommended lapidary businesses or individuals who do both quality cutting and heat treating?

[@ChrisRalph]

I'm Sorry, but no I do not know of any such folks and I've not had experience with them.

[@Ghryst]

so if its all about colour, then what is the cutoff point? ie: how dark does a pink sapphire have to be to be called a ruby?

[@ChrisRalph]

Its the point that the buyer says its red. However, near the meeting point of the two, prices converge.

[@ngobithe]

Thanks. Interesting.

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@atifmehmoodkhan7056]

Sir I have a question plz Can we found diamonds with these minrals?

[@ChrisRalph]

Diamonds and sapphires are not found together.

[@atifmehmoodkhan7056]

@@ChrisRalph Thanks a lot Sir

[@danpollard4210]

Ask the owner if he knows me he is at the french bar I think I worked at Castles,Russ and Debbie. Is Bruce still working there Dan Pollard.

[@ChrisRalph]

No idea.

[@timtremblay8601]

Have you ever found raw diamonds? Just asking Chris, thanks.

[@ChrisRalph]

Got a video on diamonds coming up soon! Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@danpollard4210]

We called orange ones Pads for padparadshaw.

[@ChrisRalph]

all in how you pronounce that.

[@randomnessrules4971]

I don't remember this area in Hoenn.

[@ChrisRalph]

OK.

[@shingardesigner]

Star buby indian , how much of cost per ct

[@ChrisRalph]

Depends on quality.

[@shingardesigner]

I have ruby star sapphire

[@ChrisRalph]

Ok.

[@chet2201]

I love Cowee Valley in N.C.

[@ChrisRalph]

Cowee valley is a fun place.

[@josefinaabol7622]

How much is the white sap6?

[@ChrisRalph]

I have no ideas what is a sap6.

[@tomekakoro2840]

I wish you were in community….!!

[@ChrisRalph]

OK.

[@JuliaMason-yk1cn]

What is onix

[@ChrisRalph]

Onyx is a banded variety of chalcedony, a type of quartz.

[@BreakerFamily]

question, I have low grade Madagascar rubies with almost a pink colour but are all around that 1"-1.5" in size. Not very clear. Any ideas how much something like that would run when selling?

[@ChrisRalph]

No idea - depends on a lot of other factors. The value would be as a specimen, but are they nice specimens? Contact someone who deals in mineral specimens to ask them.

[@BreakerFamily]

@@ChrisRalph okay thank you

[@kevinhubbard8039]

wont heating them up like that make them brittle

[@ChrisRalph]

Heating them up in a controlled environment does not make them brittle or any less hard. They are formed originally at red hot temperatures. Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@ronnalscammahorn8002]

Exilent 💎💍💞

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@lcbuell5535]

I need help identifying a crystal I guess

[@ChrisRalph]

I get many, many requests for personal help. Its almost always impossible to ID stuff from photos.

[@MrTopHaVirtaltReality]

Suddenly they were fusing and formed a garnet

[@ChrisRalph]

OK....

[@greedygringoprospecting6941]

hey not saying anything bad I was reading through the gps part in your book sounds like you didn't have the WAAS turned on (enabled) this gets rid of the errors jumping from satellite to satellite or the older models didn't have this feature you have marked way points with it yes ? so you can go back and dig the same spot or sample the same place I started hiking with an etrex 30 and found some natural black chalcedony (black onyx) the real thing this is what started the prospecting bug oh you go to fallbrook Ca fallbrook gem and mineral society and talk to mike he works at the GIA gems and gold not much different free $$$$

[@ChrisRalph]

Been using GPS for over 30 years, newer ones a lot better than older. Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@greedygringoprospecting6941]

@@ChrisRalph so far books f**ken awesome just was asking questions that's all boss

[@AxUnderground]

✨ c o r u n d u m ✨

[@ChrisRalph]

Yep.

[@brunocassivi4979]

Gr@titude

[@ChrisRalph]

Thank you.

[@brunocassivi4979]

@@ChrisRalph @ll the plaisur is 4 me !! N@maste yul..

[@kigarkbajarke6834]

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[@ChrisRalph]

OK. Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gymble in the wabe:

[@cindysnow9166]

love your stuff! thank you however please don't repeat yourself so many times.....sorry it's just hard to keep listening to a slow moving highly repetitive info vid....hard to watch all the way, it's ok I'm just trying to say to help with your vids...God bless, go in peace

[@ChrisRalph]

Ok.

[@kemziefiles]

We are grateful for him sharing the information anyway.

[@Mark-d8n2i]

Tg u H J

[@ChrisRalph]

S dat watt 4 U?

[@shaneww989]

fu

[@ChrisRalph]

Foo fighters.