Hi,
can anybody help with this beautiful Ruby. Inside of this Ruby there is a unknown animal, maybe million of years old.
You can see ok the pictures an eye of this animal.
Can anybody tel more about rubys with fossil inside!?!
Thank you 
I wish I had information for you… its beautiful
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Rubies NEVER contain fossils. The conditions for ruby formation are too extreme for fossils and sedimentary rocks to survive… the metamorphic marbles, originally aluminous limestones, from which Myanmar rubies originate are high temperature high pressure metamorphic rocks. High grade metamorphism will obliterate all traces of sedimentary rock and fossils with it. The trans Himalayan mountain belt is where many rubies come from, ranging from Afghanistan to Thailand and Cambodia.
Many of the rocks are ultra metamorphic, due to the collision of the Indian plate with Asia… Rubies will rarely originate in unusual igneous rocks, thought actually to be phenocrysts in lamprophyric rocks and alsos in contact zones between ultramafic rocks and pegmatitic intrusions. None of these high temperature/high pressure environments allow for the survival of sedimentary rocks, much less fossils.
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Steve are telling me that Patrick dreirs Ruby frog on zoisite or his fathers famous ruby mouse are not Fossils impossible how did the turn to Ruby . maybe a ruby Medusa
Rubies from under medium grade metamorphic conditions. best rubies form in marble. marble is stable across a wide range of metamorphic facies. at a moderate to high grade metamorphic facies, impure limestones containing clay minerals, which are rich is alumina crystallize rubies from the alumina present in the clays.The process builds a ruby crystal atom by atom over time. metamorphism destroys sedimentary structures, including all traces of fossils, as the rock in entirely reworked into new minerals and structures. new mineral grains and crystals form with high heat and pressure. Metamorphic rocks are all strikingly diffierent from sedimentary rocks… they are crystalline… even at low grade facies, fossils will not survive metamorphism. Igneous hosted corundums, rare sapphires orginate in molten rock… no fossils wil be present. the host rock Zoisite forms under low to medium grade metamorphic conditions. It can be the result of retrograde metamorphism from medium to high grade or hydrothermal pegmatitic secondary alteration.
I cannot see the"fossils" from the pictures. It could be that your eye is making out a shape within the ruby that is includisons, impuritites and fractures that are an imitation a fossil form… this is an ordinary common place phenomenon… our visual system likes to find order in chaos…once the shape is pointed out, others people will see the same shape… that still doesn’t make it a fossil…
The only place that fossils occur in ruby is on Pokemon.
There was one ruby that was found in Greenland that was unique in that it was 2.5 billion year old and contained a possible remant of bacterial life…in a way it can be considered a fossil… the material was graphite…an indicator of possible biogenic carbon… however, crystalline graphite is no where near a formed fossil itself…only the metamorphic remnant graphite carbon of a potential biogenic carbon. I should mention that this find itself is controversial, since carbon can also for abiotically.
The gem fields of East Africa were formed by a continental collision in Archean to early Protozoic times (3-2.5 billion years ago)… metamorphism was high grade: amphibolite facies… secondary granitic intrusions caused pegmatitic alteration, creating other gems besides the corundum gems…
Any rock scientist or geologist will tell you that intact fossils never survive metamorphism…
That being said, I urge you to have it examined by an expert geologist/mineralologist. If there is no university geology department locally, take it to a brick and motar store gemmologist… Quantum leap scientific advances happen when what is impossible is found…If it is a fossil or even a ghost of a fossil, it will overturn everything that is known about rock science…
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Yep i learned this back in January thank you