This quality stone won't last long at this price. It's in a shop as well so it can be gone at anytime.
Nice brilliant reflection in this stone. VS clarity. Vivid red pigeon blood color. Some photos in natural shaded light and some in artificial light. I don't notice much difference which is good.
This is from Luc Yen Vietnam. This deposit is in the same marble deposit that occurs in Myanmar Burma. Luc Yen is only around 750 kms from the Burma deposits.
Luc Yen stones do not get treated. No heat on the Luc Yen spinel. Spinel do not respond to treatments like sapphire. So rest assured this stone is 100% natural and untreated.
Mined from under the rice fields in the alluvial gravels in the shallow valley near the original marble deposit. Rubies and sapphire are also associated with this deposit similar to the Burma deposit. I'm was a geologist before I became a gem enthusiast/gemologist. My business plan is to bring the better quality gemstones to my customers at a better more fair price.
Please study these photos and look at the color. This is the best spinel listed right now on Gemrock. Dark reds that lack reflection and show a lack of color because of extinction are not cut properly. Make sure you don't buy dark reds that have a brown factor mixed in and don't buy window cut where you see through the center of the stone where reflection is non existent.
Stone fluoresces under UV light shown in a photo.