Spinels-2014-03
Spinels
Spinels continue to grow in popularity, keeping demand on the rise. As this awareness grows, the bounty of fancy colors opens up to a whole new group of collectors. Spinel requests are branching out from the classic red hues into green, blue-greens, blues, lavenders, pinks and beyond. These fancy colors are completely natural, coming out of the ground in this wonderful array. Although singularly refractive, spinels often display a pleasant mix of hues and exhibit a slightly higher dispersion than sapphire, giving them a more lively character in some cases. There are also color-change and color-shifting spinels, taking on different colors in different lighting. Supplying the demand seems to be the tricky part these days, so Pala International is continuously gobbling up all the spinels we can get our hands on.
Spring quartet. Left to right, a Burmese 3.39-carat spinel (#18978), a Sri Lankan round purple spinel weighing 2.94 carats (#20775), followed by a blue round Ceylon spinel weighing 1.36 carats (#21745) and lastly we have a blue-green color-change Sri Lankan spinel weighing 2.20 carats (#21746). Click to enlarge. (Photo: Mia Dixon)
Check out our extensive collection of spinels here.
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