Spinel Ring

Discover my pieces featuring a stone that is close to the Corundum family (sapphires and rubies).

An interesting aspect is that they can be found in much bigger formats than rubies. I have seen red spinelspecimens that easily rival the most beautiful rubies.

Indeed, it is rare to find rubies above the 3 to 5 carats, whereas it is much more frequent to find spinel stones in these sizes, and moreover in a wide range of beautiful colours.

I most often use spinel gems as centre stones. They are beautiful specimens that are interesting to feature on a ring.

These stones exist in a large variety of colours. One example would be violet spinel gems, that are close to amethysts in colour but with a superior brightness. They also come in shades of pink, grey, green and yellow, and occasionally even in black.

The deposits of spinel are noticeably the same as sapphires and rubies. The countries that produce corundum stones are most of the time also producers of spinel gems.

Spinel gems, a still relatively unknown stone

The most sought after spinel gems are the blue and red ones. In Asia and the US, they are just as sought after as corundum stones (such as rubies or sapphires). They are a highly sought-after stone, that are still relatively unknown in Europe, despite the crown of England displaying a red spinel gem (it was long thought – mistakenly – to be a Balas ruby). It is therefore a stone that had in fact been discovered and appreciated for a long time.