Spinel (great color!)

Item Description

Spinel is another gem that comes in a great range of colors. Most people are familiar with the Ruby Spinels, but a large percentage of Spinels out there are not red. This stone is an attractive, very slightly included, wonderful pink color, "Pear Step" cut gemstone. The majority of Spinels are cut into "Round" or "Oval" shapes, and "Pear" cut stones are fairly rarely in my experience. The color in this gem beautiful, and truly resembles a fine pink Sapphire. Pink Spinels are some of the most popular of all Spinels, but you don't see many with this particular shade of pink. It is difficult to find superb quality Spinels, espeically in this size, because of political upheaval in southeast Asia. It appears that these stones will soon be very very hard to come across and the days of the good Spinels may be dwindling. Valued at $330 high end retail.