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Rubies from an Unknown locality in Madagascar
Map of Madagascar Madagascar rubies
Madagascar rubies Location unknown, but somewhere to the north of the capital of Antananarivo
   
Dendrites Dendrites

Rutile 'needles'

 Rutile needles Rutile needles
Parting planes Rhombohedral 
parting planes

Partly 'healed' 
surface-reaching 
fracture

 'healed' fracture
Crystal inclusions Crystal inclusions Crystal
inclusions

Heat treatment induced 
round crystal surrounded 
by fracture

 Heat treatment induced round crystaL
   

Photos and information courtesy of Terry Coldham,
Graham Henry and Jenny King

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