| A highlight will also be a visit to Badakhshan's long lost balas ruby mines and a side trip to the Russian emerald mines. |
| Hence, in 1402, Berry convinced the king to open the royal coffers and disburse 14,000 of the 18,000 ecus he needed to purchase a fabulous balas ruby. |
| Spinelle Ruby, called Dodecahedral corundum by some mineralogists, and balas ruby by lapidaries. |
| The coronation crown featured large balas rubies, surrounded by emeralds, pearls, oriental sapphires, and rubies. |
| The passage offers a poetic description of the Buddhas and their former adornments of painted robes and balas rubies. |
| Some garnets, e.g., Arizona ruby, Bohemian ruby, Cape ruby, and some spinels, e.g., balas ruby, ruby spinel, are ruby colored. |
