CHAKRA RUBY

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We are very happy to announce that CHAKRA RUBY, a unique trapiche ruby from South India, will now be available in Europe for the first time.

CHAKRA RUBY was first introduced at the Munich Show for minerals and gems in October 2018.

The rare feature of a six lined star fixed within the mineral structure of a gem stone was first discovered in emeralds in Colombia at the end of the 19^th century. As this pattern was resembling the wheel of a sugar cane mill, the Spanish word for it “trapiche” became the synonym for these emeralds and later for any gem with a similar growth pattern.

100 years later at the end of the 20^th century this phenomenon was first described in corundum crystals. Rare small pieces of trapiche ruby and sapphire were found mostly in Burma and became a sought-after collector’s item.

Now trapiche rubies were discovered for the first time in commercial quantities and in different qualities and sizes at a mine in South India. The  crystals were growing in a hexagonal form and some can be very big with a weight of over 1500 ct. They are polished and manufactured by our partners in the Indian gemstone capital Jaipur in Rajasthan .

Trapiche emeralds are coming from Colombia and are known by a Spanish term. These rubies originate from India and therefore became known by the ancient Indian word chakra.  In Sanskrit it means spoked wheel and was already mentioned in the Rigveda. Trapiche also stands for a spoked wheel and therefore chakra is a literal translation of trapiche.

Chakraruby.com is a website by Frank Drauschke from Berlin, Germany. It is promoting trapiche rubies from India. If you are interested in these stones or crystals, please get in touch.