Rubies, Blood-Red Beauty
article by Victoria Gomelsky
New York Times
March 15, 2015
"In “The Curious Lore of Precious Stones,” a 1913 reference book by the famed gemologist George Frederick Kunz, he noted the ancient belief that “an inextinguishable flame burned” inside the stone. “If cast into the water, the ruby communicated its heat to the liquid, causing it to boil,” he wrote."
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The Australian Financial Review
March 15, 2015
"The pale pink-violet stone kunzite was named after the company's first gemologist, George Frederick Kunz, who described the gem in 1902."
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