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 Post subject: Ramaura Rubies Straight From The Furnace -Part I
PostPosted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 12:33 pm 
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Hi All,

I've just spent much of the morning grabbing still shots from the hour long "Synthetics" episode of the 7-hour Canadian Discovery Channel precious stone TV series "Stones of Fate & Fortune," broadcast beginning in 2002 or 3, and of which - let me hasten to add :) - I was the originator and lead researcher. This in preparation of a web site via which the whole series will be presented and yes indeed offered for sale. Stay tuned.

Meanwhile though I thought you folks might be interested in these still shots from a shoot at the J.O. Crystal Company in Long Beach California where Judith Osmer and Virginia Carter were at that time producing Ramaura flux-grown rubies.

The platinum crucible comes out of the furnace.
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The flux is poured off
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Revealing the crystal cluster inside
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(OK It looks like I'll have to do this in two posts to get all the pictures in...part II coming right up)...

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 12:37 pm 
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Thank you for posting Hans!!! :D
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 Post subject: Ramaura Rubies Straight From The Furnace -Part II
PostPosted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 12:44 pm 
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Hi All,

(Recapping) I've just spent much of the morning grabbing still shots from the hour long "Synthetics" episode of the 7-hour Canadian Discovery Channel precious stone TV series "Stones of Fate & Fortune," broadcast beginning in 2002 or 3, and of which - let me hasten to add :) - I was the originator and lead researcher. This in preparation of a web site via which the whole series will be presented and yes indeed offered for sale. Stay tuned.

This is part II of a series of still shots from a shoot at the J.O. Crystal Company in Long Beach California where Judith Osmer and Virginia Carter were at that time producing Ramaura flux-grown rubies.

Fresh from the furnace the crystals are still somewhat flux encrusted
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Finally, after cleaning with nitric and other acids, they look like this
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And like this... If I recall correctly this one was so clean and esthetic
that it was presented as a crystal specimen rather than sliced up for faceting. A similar albeit much smaller crystal is among my own treasured possessions.
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Cheers all,
Hans Durstling
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 Post subject: Re: Ramaura Rubies Straight From The Furnace -Part I
PostPosted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 12:57 pm 
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8) Thanks for posting these images! Super Xls Hans - one of the nicest i´ve seen so far ...

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Fabulous!
Thank you so much for taking the time to do that!


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yeah! SUPER images!!!! =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:23 pm 
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Absolutely gorgeous :shock: Thanks a lot :D

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Wow fantastic, thank you!


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PostPosted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 6:41 pm 
*Very* nice indeed. Many thanks.


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Yup yup, yummy yummy! Thanks for sharing! :)

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Thanks Hans,

And a big thankyou for the entire 'Fate and Fortune' series. I have them all on VHS tape but a decent quality DVD with no ads would make a nice replacement. Looking forward to the site link.

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Simply WOW. What a wonderful specimen. Looking forward to a good read.

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Gorgeous! =D>

I want one tooohoooo! :mrgreen:


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Goodness, those are just beautiful. I bid a couple years ago for some rather smaller multi-crystal (<1cm each) ramaura specimens on pee-bay, and got out bid after a couple hundred bux. Bummer. Still want at least one :)

maybe when my cash flow recovers.... or is rather resurrected like a zombie from the dead.

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Any update on the series being offered for sale? A quick search via google only brought up a single DVD of the episode on ammolite. :(


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