Mogok Ruby

Burma ruby: Pigeon's Blood - A journey to the Mogok Stone Tract, home of pigeon's blood rubies, Burma sapphires and spinels. The color of a fine Mogok ruby is due to a combination of two factors. First, the best stones have high color intensity.

For the last 800 years Mogok has been the focal point of the world's finest ruby reserves. The finest of "pigeon's blood" ruby color comes from the Mogok stone tract.

Mogok is just a famous town as the ruby-land of Myanmar either in Myanmar or the international community. It is 128 miles from Mandalay. The ruby-land is in the centre of four mountains namely 5,955 feet high Myomin taung in the east, 7,544 feet high Taungme taung in the north-east, 5, 277 feet high Daw Nan Keeh taung and 5, 354 feet high Pingu taung in the west.