He met manuel on a visit to tanzania and saw samples of the astonishing blue gem labelled dumortierite at.

John saul ruby background. The john saul mine body is 150m long and 100 wide and about half dozen corundum veins are present around it. The smaller crystal is embedded in green apatite which fluoresces banana yellow in long wave. John saul is a geologist and founding member of international colored gemstone association. The color red represents passion life and love.

At the john saul mine rubies can be found in different rocks as cedric simonet explains. From the sanskrit word ratnaraj meaning king of the gemstones and the latin rubens meaning red the ruby reigns supreme over other colored gemstones and is considered one of the most treasured. The king of the gemstones the ruby exemplifies beauty desire splendor and allure. Dr john saul was the first geologist on the scene after the discovery as well as being a founding member of the international colored gemstone association and the owner of the famous john saul ruby mine in kenya.

Nice john saul s mine ruby samples in some marble matrix with as background the mine plant. As with all john saul rubies they fluoresce a deep cherry red under long wave ultraviolet light. He also discovered and owned the famous john saul ruby mine in kenya. Much of what we now know about tanzanite s discovery is due to john saul s diligence.

It was obtained through the efforts of cal graeber. According to ruby and sapphire by richard w hughes the deposits were discovered in 1973 when american geologist jon saul and elliott tim miller were prospecting in kenya s tsavo west national park for chromium and vanadium bearing gemstones when they found what has become one of the world s richest deposit of ruby this ruby will fluorescence well and can be similar to burmese rubys.

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