| In the inventory of the crown jewels of France, the price of balas rubies is four or five times less than that of spinels. |
| A highlight will also be a visit to Badakhshan's long lost balas ruby mines and a side trip to the Russian emerald mines. |
| The passage offers a poetic description of the Buddhas and their former adornments of painted robes and balas rubies. |
| Anything goes, including gauds of pearls, of enameled gold, even of balas rubies and sapphires. |
| Spinelle Ruby, called Dodecahedral corundum by some mineralogists, and balas ruby by lapidaries. |
| Set with three balas rubies, pearls, and a central diamond, the Three Brothers passed among European royalty to raise money for armies until bought by the Tudors. |
