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热处理后的缅甸红宝石:颜色稳定且牢固

【摘要】:经热处理后的红宝石一般都更加牢固,颜色稳定。孟速红宝石于1992年在泰国曼谷的珠宝展会上首次出现。之后,产自孟速的红宝石原石都进入到泰国的尖竹汶进行热处理、切割和销售。当时几乎90%以上的3克拉以下的红宝石都来自孟速。孟速的红宝石大多呈褐红或紫红色,也不乏高品质亮丽的红色。泰国红宝石聚片双晶发育,双晶面指纹状愈合裂隙是泰国红宝石的典型内含物特征。

Myanmar(Burma)

缅甸抹谷红宝石的内含物特征:

·短细金红石针状物

·飘逸的指纹状内含物

·不规则的浆状漩涡纹

·二相指纹状内含物

·方解石

·磷灰石

·榍石

·磁铁矿

·橄榄石

·抹谷红宝石的浆状漩涡纹

·抹谷红宝石负晶比较发育,常见个体粗大的气液二相负晶内含物分散或成串出现

· 抹谷红宝石中的褶皱指纹状内含物

·缅甸红宝石中的百叶窗结构双晶纹

·抹谷红宝石中的微细金红石针状内含物和飘逸的“指纹状”内含物

缅甸红宝石很少见流体包体,但固态包体非常丰富,其中金红石的分布特征构成了浆漩涡状、飘逸指纹状,以及磁铁矿、磷灰石、负晶等内含物。

· Fine rutile inclusions (page 14,15).

· Negtive crystals with gas and liquid two-phase inclusions. (Page 14)

· Round brown-black magnetite. (Top left)

· Apatites crystals. (Bottom)

·褐黑色、圆粒状磁铁矿

·柱状磷灰石内含物

·边缘被熔蚀的柱状和浑圆状的磷灰石内含物

孟速(Mong Hsu)是缅甸于抹谷之后发现的红宝石矿区。孟速位于缅甸东北部的掸邦,与泰国、老挝及中国交界。孟速红宝石晶体呈桶状,外表为褐红和褐暗紫色,晶体中心常具深蓝色核心,大多含有较多的丝状物,裂隙较多,通常都需经过高温热处理来改善其品质。经热处理后,蓝色核心会变成红色,也有些会留下乳白色的痕迹。同时热处理能熔解丝状物,愈合裂隙,可获得透明的晶体和漂亮的红色。经热处理后的红宝石一般都更加牢固,颜色稳定。

孟速红宝石于1992年在泰国曼谷的珠宝展会上首次出现。之后,产自孟速的红宝石原石都进入到泰国的尖竹汶进行热处理、切割和销售。当时几乎90%以上的3克拉以下的红宝石都来自孟速。孟速的红宝石大多呈褐红或紫红色,也不乏高品质亮丽的红色。孟速红宝石双晶发育,有时在同一宝石内可见多组聚片双晶。其他内含物还有白云石尖晶石、萤石等。

Mong Hsu, where a ruby deposit has been found in recent years, is a small town situated in Shan State,northeast Myanmar. Mong Hsu’s rubies appeared on the market in 1992 in Bangkok, Thailand. An identifying marker of Mong Hsu rubies is their dark blue cores with red outer layers. The blue cores can be turned red with heat treatment, but this will sometimes leave a white imprint. Mong Hsu sends its rubies to Chanthaburi, Thailand to be heattreated, cut, and traded. A large majority of the rubies traded in Chanthaburi, three carats or under,are from Mong Hsu at that time.

·孟速无烧红宝石

·孟速红宝石经热处理后存留的乳白斑点

(Thailand Ruby)泰国红宝石

泰国曾经是世界上最主要的红宝石产地之一,泰国红宝石产自碱性玄武岩,含铁元素较高,通常颜色较深,常呈棕红、紫红、褐红,一般颜色比较均匀,荧光反应弱。泰国红宝石几乎缺失金红石内含物。丰富的水软铝石客晶内含物,沿三个方向几乎彼此呈直角的“脚手架”状结构,以及水软铝石的“须”边状结构,可作为泰国红宝石的重要鉴定依据之一。泰国红宝石聚片双晶发育,双晶面指纹状愈合裂隙是泰国红宝石的典型内含物特征。

Thailand, especially the area near the Cambodian border, used to be a major producer of rubies. These Thailand rubies are basalthosted. Most of the rubies were purplish to brownish red in color and had to be heat-treated to become a purer red.

It lacks rutile needle inclusions but were rich in “scaffold”-shaped boehmite needle inclusions and therefore did not exhibit fluorescence.This scaffold of fine boehmite needle inclusions is proof that a Thai ruby is genuine. (See page 19, top left)

·泰国曼谷珠宝首饰交易中心