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Daily Archives: June 20, 2016

July Birthstone – Ruby
Birthstones, Minerals

July Birthstone – Ruby

June 20, 2016 Fred Haynes Leave a comment

Published in the July WCGMC newsletter

Rubies are red, very red.  Rubies are hard, very hard.  In fact with a hardness of 9 on the Moh’s scale, they fall just below diamonds as the hardest natural mineral on earth.  Ruby is also the birthstone for July, the seventh month in the Gregorian calendar.

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