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Ruby & Sapphire
The ravenous red colour of Rubies and the bold blue colour of Sapphires have become icons in their own right in the jewellery world. Although strikingly different in appearance these wonderful stones have more in common than you might think... Sapphires and Rubies belong to the same family, the Corundum family to be exact. This means that they are cut from the same cloth and have the exact same properties and characteristics to one another. One feature being hardness, now this refers to the Moh's scale which is based on every stone's durability when used or abraded against one another. The Corundum...