Blue spinel thread

[T L]

a thread dedicated to one of my favorite gems!!

Please post your blue spinels, no pinks or reds, just blues, grayish blues or violets (no pinks).

 

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[bright&shiny]

I have a few that haven’t been set yet - grey, but they read mostly blue and one has a lavender tint . I have these pics handy on my phone, but I’m fairly sure more pics exist of the other stones. I’ll check when I get home.

 

[Mrsz1ppy]

Sorry I can’t remove the pinks, but here are my blues, set in a Tiffany brooch from Lang‘s.

 

[Neptune]

I have a few that haven’t been set yet - grey, but they read mostly blue and one has a lavender tint . I have these pics handy on my phone, but I’m fairly sure more pics exist of the other stones. I’ll check when I get home.

Sorry I can’t remove the pinks, but here are my blues, set in a Tiffany brooch from Lang‘s.

Love the color combos!
Ivy NY did something similar too.

@Mrsz1ppy, I’m imagining it as a single leaning earring, it would be a knockout, haha.

 

[Mrsz1ppy]

Love the color combos!
Ivy NY did something similar too.

@Mrsz1ppy, I’m imagining it as a single leaning earring, it would be a knockout, haha.

Great idea! I have thought of a pendant but not an earring.

 

[ShinyPleeease]

I can’t remove the pink either but here’s my blue spinel.

 

[T L]

Pinks are okay as long as you post your blue spinel with it.

 

[landscape]

My collection of full-color blue spinel, colors include green, blue-gray, blue, metallic gray

 

[landscape]

My collection of full-color blue spinel, colors include green, blue-gray, blue, metallic gray

 

[T L]

My collection of full-color blue spinel, colors include green, blue-gray, blue, metallic gray

Wow, and I thought I was addicted to these gems!! Lol

 

[T L]

 

[landscape]

It seems those blue spinels are from Sri Lanka or Myanmar, and the blue spinels from Vietnam and Tanzania are also very beautiful. If you like blue spinels, I suggest you can pay attention to them.

 

[T L]

It seems those blue spinels are from Sri Lanka or Myanmar, and the blue spinels from Vietnam and Tanzania are also very beautiful. If you like blue spinels, I suggest you can pay attention to them.

It’s harder purchasing blue spinels these days with the proliferation of convincing synthetics.

I started this thread because I love blue spinels, and whenever I see a spinel thread, it’s usually a red or pink. I think blue spinels need more love!

My oval blue spinel is so beautiful to me that I’vr worn it almost every day for years. I think among all my gemstones, it’s the most mesmerizing to me, and it has gray. I think the high luster, sparkle, pink flashes, RI, color shift all contribute to my love of this one gem. Many of my pieces go in and out of favor, but this is the one stone I never get tired or bored with. I know everyone has seen it numerous times, but photos really fail to capture its beauty. These are some of my favorite photos below, and it shifts to a Tanzanite violet color indoors, but my camera fails to capture its luster and dimensionality in artificial lighting

It’s not cobalt bearing that I know of, and it’s Tanzanian, not Luc Yen, but it was love at first sight.

 

[Mrs_Strizzle]

Sorry I can’t remove the pinks, but here are my blues, set in a Tiffany brooch from Lang‘s.

Wow, this is gorgeous

 

[Mrs_Strizzle]

My small but mighty Luc Yen ring and my 4 ct dark and mysterious still loose

 

[landscape]

It’s harder purchasing blue spinels these days with the proliferation of convincing synthetics.

I started this thread because I love blue spinels, and whenever I see a spinel thread, it’s usually a red or pink. I think blue spinels need more love!

My oval blue spinel is so beautiful to me that I’vr worn it almost every day for years. I think among all my gemstones, it’s the most mesmerizing to me, and it has gray. I think the high luster, sparkle, pink flashes, RI, color shift all contribute to my love of this one gem. Many of my pieces go in and out of favor, but this is the one stone I never get tired or bored with. I know everyone has seen it numerous times, but photos really fail to capture its beauty. These are some of my favorite photos below, and it shifts to a Tanzanite violet color indoors, but my camera fails to capture its luster and dimensionality in artificial lighting

It’s not cobalt bearing that I know of, and it’s Tanzanian, not Luc Yen, but it was love at first sight.

Blue spinel definitely deserves attention, it's an underrated gem

 

[Mrs_Strizzle]

I remembered I also have a grayish blue (more blue in bright sunlight) spinel in a gem jar that I at one time thought I would make a moi et toi with it's pink twinsie

 

[JewelledEscalators]

Saw this - small but nice colour blue spinel from a recently found blue spinel deposit in Tanzania:

Cobalt Spinel 0.42 cts Radiant cut

Cobalt Spinel 0.42 cts Radiant cut Cobalt Spinel Weight 0.42 cts Dimension 5.2 x 3.7 x 2.4 mm Clarity Slight Color Neon Blue Origin Tanznaia Cut Very Good Proportions Good This is a New find in Tanzania. This color is Vivid Neon blue.Very rare.

www.gemworldltd.com

 

[JackTrick]

My favorite shifty baby. Goes blueish grey to violetish grey depending on the light.

 

[LilAlex]

I can’t remove the pink either but here’s my blue spinel.

I'm sorry but the rules were very clear. Mods?

 

[ItsMainelyYou]

I have a couple of moody blues. I hate trying to take pictures of them because I know nothing of photography/phones and they always come out with this overtly turned up grey cast and leached of blue, and I have no idea how to correct it. It isn't what the eye would see. I feel like I do them dirty.
The ring is the only one I know has cobalt.
I would love a really open blue someday that doesn't cost the earth.

Anyway, now I've solved the mystery of why they're so hard to find-
@landscape has them all!

 

[cloud_less]

Saw this - small but nice colour blue spinel from a recently found blue spinel deposit in Tanzania:

Cobalt Spinel 0.42 cts Radiant cut

Cobalt Spinel 0.42 cts Radiant cut Cobalt Spinel Weight 0.42 cts Dimension 5.2 x 3.7 x 2.4 mm Clarity Slight Color Neon Blue Origin Tanznaia Cut Very Good Proportions Good This is a New find in Tanzania. This color is Vivid Neon blue.Very rare.

www.gemworldltd.com

I was so annoyed this required logging in to check price. When I finally was able to, it was gone...
Anyway a vendor recently sent me pics of these (probably from the same mine as the one you posted). Almost spat out my drink when I heard the price ... he's asking $3k for the .8ct emerald cut! And when I was contemplating my life choices one of his clients snapped that round one up...

 

[landscape]

I have a couple of moody blues. I hate trying to take pictures of them because I know nothing of photography/phones and they always come out with this overtly turned up grey cast and leached of blue, and I have no idea how to correct it. It isn't what the eye would see. I feel like I do them dirty.
The ring is the only one I know has cobalt.
I would love a really open blue someday that doesn't cost the earth.

Anyway, now I've solved the mystery of why they're so hard to find-
@landscape has them all!

The photos you took are also very nice.

 

[landscape]

Three blue spinels from Tanzania, blue，light blue, violet blue

 

[JewelledEscalators]

@cloud_less

I thought it was in stock when I posted it - or maybe I didn't see it was sold

Was 600 GBP.

Yes the need to log in to view prices is annoying, though not as annoying as people asking you to DM them for prices on instagram where you have to enquire after every stone you see that you like, often only to be told it's sold

 

[landscape]

Light blue spinel from Vietnam with slight discoloration effect, light purple under incandescent light

 

[T L]

Some loose stones with a chrysoberyl I couldn’t crop out. Another ring.

 

[T L]

This one is grayish blue/violet. I tried to crop the chrysoberyl sides.

 

[Nick_G]

Blue spinel crystals in marble matrix from the Hunza Valley in Pakistan:

It also fluoresces deep red in LWUV, so I'm guessing there's a bit of chromium in there.