Kashmir Ruby

A Ruby is a pink to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide).  Ruby is one of the traditional cardinal gems, together with amethyst, sapphire, emerald, and diamond. The word ruby comes from ruber, Latin for red. The color of a ruby is due to the element chromium.

Rubies are also mined in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In Pakistani Kashmir there are vast proven reserves of millions of rubies, worth up to half a billion dollars. However, as of 2017 there is one mine (at Chitta Katha). In Afghanistan, rubies are mined at Jegdalek. In Sri Lanka, lighter shades of rubies (often "pink sapphires") are more commonly found.

Most Beautiful Village, Arial View of Kundalshai, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan.

Kundal Shahi  A Beauty Of Nature (Urdu: کنڈل شاہی ‎; locally: kunḍal šai) is a village and tourist resort in the Neelam Valley in northern Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. It has a scattered settlement area, located on both sides of the Jagran Nallah River. It is a few minutes walking distance from the Neelam Valley highway, some 74 kilometers (46 mi) by road from Muzaffarabad.

The majority of the population are of the Qureshi ethnic group, and there are small numbers of people from the Sheikh, Mughal, and Sayyid groups. Members of the Qureshi community, numbering about 3,000 people, speak the Kundal Shahi language. It is an endangered language as it is not being learned by the younger generation, who are shifting to Hindko, the language of wider communication in the area.