Many of the country's gems, especially jade and rubies, come from the contested areas in Kachin State.
It is crafted entirely of champagne colored solid gold with diamonds and rubies on the cap and barrel.
Important innovations and pioneering collaborations show up--like fraudulent rubies--in the most unlikely places.
Sniffing opportunity, even before the oil starts flowing and the rubies glisten, the world has started to arrive in Greenland.
"If rubies had flavor, this is what it would taste like, " the Lasorda Wine website says of the Lasorda Carmignano.
They include an exquisite 32-carat apricot diamond ring and a dramatic pair of topaz earrings studded with rubies and diamonds.
Gemfields other business include a mine in Mozambique for rubies, and prospecting licenses for other gemstones in Madagascar.
"I always wanted a big family, but when I read Above Rubies it was like drinking when you're thirsty, " she says.
In accordance with Chinese taste, the naturalism was enhanced with fine enamel coloration and markings made of diamonds, rubies and emeralds.
Reserve rubies are a bit more complex, thanks to more time in the cask, but are still quite lively and fruity.
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The opera mask on the cap is made of 2, 000 gemstones in a micro-pave pattern, including black sapphires, diamonds and rubies.
Consider a necklace in the 1990 Bulgari Collection Internationale: It featured 84 carats of rubies and 674 carats of emerald beads, embellished with diamond-set rondelles.
Dozens of mining companies are trawling the narrow strip of land abutting its 44, 087-kilometre coastline for diamonds, gold and rubies and possibly more exotic treasures.
Pre-Columbian animal figures went in, along with prehistoric "mirrors" of hammered gold, ancient Chinese faces carved from jade and antique jewelry with rubies and emeralds.
The Principality of Monaco coat of arms provided the inspiration for a circle of rhomboid-shaped cut rubies arranged on the cap of the writing instrument.
One report talks of 450 golden pots, 2, 000 rubies and jewel-studded crowns, 400 gold chairs and the statue of a deity studded with 1, 000 diamonds.
Rubies is dismissive of the idea that Anonymous and other protesters have fuelled demand for the mask, saying it has been successful ever since the film was released.
On the back of the watch, large rubies set in sunk gold chatons pop against Geneva waves that evoke the styling of an antique pocket watch.
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It includes a gold rapier and a parrying dagger, both encrusted with diamonds and rubies, and a lavish belt embroidered in gold and set with gems.
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The elaborate, gaudy jewelry was crafted by artisans with a medallion at the bottom and an 18-karat gold chain with more than 200 rubies, emeralds and diamonds.
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The company says it has as much as 40 percent of the global amethyst supply, and it is starting to produce rubies from a major deposit in Mozambique.
Another important noble item will be a pair of ruby-and-diamond pendant ear clips, dated 1921 and featuring perfectly matched deep-red Burmese rubies, that were owned by Princess Max Egon zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1892-1990).
To coincide with the launch of this project, Gemfields unveiled a new global advertising campaign featuring Kunis wearing ethically sourced Zambian emeralds and Mozambican rubies shot by Mario Sorrenti in Los Angeles.
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Chilli, prepared to a recipe finalised in the kitchen here a century back, seasoned with the pequins and japones that gleam fiercely in the bushes behind the ranch-house, like rubies in the dust.
The 75 objects on display will include antique ornaments made of ivory, shell, and rock crystal along with modern jewelry made of diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, rubies and pearls became fashionable in later years.
Among the brooches is a spectacular creation in which an octopus attacks a butterfly, designed by Germany's Wilhelm Lucas von Cranach from 1900 and executed in pearls, gold, rubies, amethysts, topaz and enamels.
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Rubies Costume Company, which makes the mask, sells around 100, 000 a year worldwide, and 16, 000 in the UK, according to spokesman Steve Kitt, who seems a little concerned that any association with activists might harm the company's image.
Inspired by a 16th century portrait of Mary Queen of Scots, who wore it as a pendant to a brooch, Taylor commissioned Cartier to design a new mount of matched natural pearls and rubies, designed by Al Durante.
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According to Ellen Sorrin, the director of the Balanchine Trust, requests have come in for his help with ballets with which he is associated, such as "Rubies" (from "Jewels"), in which he starred in the original 1967 City Ballet production.
Colored gemstone miner and marketer, Gemfields, brought its partnership with Mila Kunis and 36 jewelry designers to the public Thursday by unveiling a bespoke jewelry collection made with Zambian emeralds, Mozambican rubies and Zambian amethysts, along with its star ambassador at Phillips Auction House in London.
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