Rubellites are tourmalines with reasonably saturated dark pink to red colors and medium to dark tones. They make excellent jewelry stones.Trace amounts of manganese create rubellite's natural dark pink to red color. You may encounter light pink stones labelled as rubellites, but these are more properly considered pink tourmalines.Rubellites have a hardness of 7 to 7.5 and no cleavage, so, whether faceted or cabbed, these dark pink varieties of the modern October birthstone make good stones for any type of jewelry.In terms of clarity, rubellites are typically Type III gems. Thus, they almost always contain inclusions. (Needle-like inclusions can also create cat's eye gems). Due to their scarcity and beauty, collectors and jewelry buyers value untreated, eye-clean or better rubellite gems most highly.Irradiation, a now common gemstone treatment, can produce stable red tones in otherwise pale pink stones. Since this treatment is undetectable, assume all rubellites are treated, even though individual stones may not be.

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