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Mining in Burma (now Myanmar) has yielded some of the finest rubies the world has seen. Rubies have been found in a number of different areas of Burma. Mogok is the birth place & many more

The name Sapphire is probably derived through the Latin Sapphirus and Greek Sapheiros, from a Sanskrit word. As with other gem names, however, the Latin sapphirus did not originally denote the gem it is associated with today. Want to know more....