Ruby Star

Most of the red corundum which the star ruby finally is comes from Mogok unless they are synthetic actually the genuine are well known for centuries but are still rather rare.  

Interestingly very good synthetic star rubies are made in Germany no wonder with that technical background available there. Mogok in central Myanmar is the center of the generic red stone mining about120km north of Mandalay in central Myanmar. 

Star Ruby

Mogok is almost a synonym for the exotic red gems such as a star ruby  gem market and mining in Myanmar/Burma. Beautiful Mogok Lake lies in the center of town, with a hotel on a silt island. The area around the Chanthargyi Pagoda on a small hill provides a great panorama of Mogok Town, the lake and the surrounding hills.

People around Mogok are a showcase of the ethnicities in Myanmar/Burma. 

All kind of tribes like Lisus, Shans, Gurkhas, Kachins, Bamars, Chinese, Shan are living there and try to get their share of the 'gems cake'. The word Mogok comes from the Bamar Moegokesetwaing, meaning the horizon. In Shan language, it means a cold place with early sunset. According to legend, three Shan hunters lost their way in the jungle and as they made camp under a large fig tree, they found many fine rough gems dislodged by a landslide from a nearby hill. They gathered many of the ruby gemstones and took them back to their sawbwa (prince or chief) of Momeik 45 kilometers from Mogok.

The delighted sawbwa ordered the people a village should be built where the ruby gemstones were found called Thaphanbin or fig tree and since that time valuable gems, have been mined in the area where Mogok now stands. In 2015 there were over half a million people living in the area star rubies are even much more rare than normal cabochons,

Actually, there is no star ruby meaning it's only a freak of nature where superstitious people interpret something into it which is only imagination and they charge a high star ruby price per carat for nothing real except an optical pleasure but just, to be honest, there are no real benefits other than cloudy rituals.