1.80CT Natural Pinkish Spinel From Burma

Weight:(1.80)CT

Stone:(Spinel)

Origin:(Burma)

Depending on the dominant metallic ion present in the stone, the minerals and varieties of the spinel group are devided into four categories. These four categories are
1) Magnesia spinel, these stones are colorless in their pure form (very rare), presence of small amounts of chromium can give a red color to this variety. Therefore magnesia spinel may resemble ruby and has in fact often been mistaken for it. Differently colored varieties of magnesia spinel have different names. for instance, the rose-red or pink variety is known as balas or balas ruby, yellowish to orange variety (contains small amount of iron) is known as rubicelle.
2) Iron-magnesia spinel, these stones are mostly dark green, brown or black and

usually opaque or nearly so. A variety of the iron-magnesia spinel in which some aluminum has been replaced by ferric iron shows a grass green color and is known as chlorospinel.
3) Chrome spinel, the color of these stones usually varies dark yellowish brown to greenish brown. picotite is another name for this variety of spinel.
4) Zinc spinel, this variety has zinc as its dominant metalic ion and is called gahnite. Depending on the amount of other metallic substances, this variety has a large range of colors. It can be dark green, grayish-green, deep leek green, greenish black, bluish-black, yellowish to grayish-brown.