Spinel

[colormyworld]

Just thought I would post this link about spinel. Some may find it helpful. It is a little dated though.


http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/gems-spinel.htm

 

[Arkteia]

Thank you for this post! It is always nice to get some information, even outdated. I, for one, did not know about the cutting.

 

[Harriet]

Two points:
1. I'd love an orange spinel, but a yellow continues to elude me.
2. Fine colour, even in pastels, has become rare and commensurately expensive.

 

[Arkteia]

I wonder if spinel is on the ascendant partially because it became so hard to find untreated corundum. Spinel was around for a long time, and the selection was great, and no one was raving about it. Can this new interest be partially explained by the difficulty in obtaining untreated corundum? By untreated I mean not treated with Berillium, because rubies were always expensive.

 

[Harriet]

I believe it was the Mahenge strike, and the prices the material fetched, that led to the ascendency of spinel.

 

[Arkteia]

Thank you, Harriet.

 

[Deia]

Spinels come in yellow?

I did not know that!!!

 

[Harriet]

Crasru,
You're welcome.

Deia,
Only according to a few sources. No one I know has ever seen one!

 

[pregcurious]

I didn't know they came in grey. It would be really cool to find a pair of grey ones to pair with a red spinel.

 

[Pandora II]

I've only seen a picture of a yellow one - never seen one in real life.

 

[Harriet]

P, in Schuman?