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Red spinel has been called “the gem that made ruby famous," because before people could tell gems apart using science, people thought ruby and spin...

The Force is strong with this one. In the early 2000s, deposits of highly-fluorescent hot pinkish red spinels were discovered in Namya, Myanmar (fo...

Some of the most desirable spinels come from Myanmar (Burma), as they often have pure red color combined with high fluorescence. Nicknamed "Jedi" ...

If you were born in August then you have a couple of birthstones to choose from. Peridot and spinel are the three birthstones for August and they...

Spinel, like garnet and diamond, is singly refractive, with the same physical properties in all crystal directions.

Gray spinel has taken the design world by storm due to its unconventional steely color. What might be even rarer and more interesting is star gra...