Flat ruby crystals from Mogok, Burma, showing vibrant pinkish-red color and well-preserved natural faces in the classic tabular hexagonal habit—a form that develops when crystals are compressed along the c-axis during growth. These ruby plates formed in high-temperature metamorphic marble, where slow crystallization and chemical conditions favored this distinctive flattened shape. Mogok is renowned for producing rubies with strong fluorescence, saturated color, and sharply defined crystal structure, making even small specimens like these highly collectible
Estimate: $225 - $250
