Spinel

Item Description

It has been next to impossible to obtain fine quality Spinel specimens from Burma these days it seems. Here we have a classic Burmese crystal with sharp, defined, lustrous, compressed octahedral faces and a GEM purple color. This piece was mined around 2000. The best of these specimens are simply the finest in the world for what they are. This is an example of a non-pegmatite gem mineral for which many collectors probably do have a good specimen in their collections.