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 Posted: Tue Sep 19th, 2006 09:58 am
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KenC



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Almost all of the jewels used are sapphires as they are second in hardness only to diamonds and are easily "grown"!  Most think of sapphires as blue, but rubies are, in fact, nothing more than red sapphires (which actually come in a plethora of colors).

http://www.sapphiremining.com/ABSapphires.html