Red Spinelle
Long appreciated in jewelry, red spinel is an attractive gemstone for those seeking this color. Its hardness and ruby-like appearance, a stone with which it has long been confused, make it an excellent, low-cost choice. To buy red spinel with a certificate, browse our gems.
Long appreciated in jewelry, red spinel is an attractive gemstone for those seeking this color. Its hardness and ruby-like appearance, a stone with which it has long been confused, make it an excellent, low-cost choice. To buy red spinel with a certificate, browse our gems.
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Red spinel is the most sought-after variant of spinel in jewelry. Whatever its color, however, the stone is very hard (7.5/8 Mohs). Typically from Burma or Sri Lanka, although found in many other countries, red spinel has a cubic crystal system. Its brilliance is vitreous to subadamantine, i.e. diamond-like, with a good refractive index.
Beautiful red spinel is mainly composed of aluminum, with traces of magnesium and varying amounts of chromium, which vary its color. Red spinel or ruby? Red spinel can bear a striking resemblance to ruby, so much so that in the past, spinel was often mistaken for ruby.
Paris jeweler and expert gemologist, maison Bonnot offers you the opportunity tobuy laboratory-certifiedred spinel. We obtain all our stones without intermediaries and can therefore provide you with the most essential information about them. We also offer blue spinels.
If you're looking for a red stone for a jewelry creation, red spinel has a number of assets. The main ones are its resistance to shocks, its similarity to ruby for lower prices, its relative availability, as there are many deposits around the world, the variety of shades, as it can be darker, brighter or even pinkish, and the diversity of possible cuts (cushion cut, oval cut, pear cut...).
We create beautiful jewelry, such as red spinel necklaces and rings, but you may also like other red stones, such as certain spessartite garnets or rhodolite garnets. Spinel also comes in pink, with Mahenge spinel, but also in black, gray, blue, mauve, violet, green...
In lithotherapy, rough red spinel is reputed to bring serenity, courage and help improve relationships. Today, red spinel 's main meaning is love, as well as passion and fidelity. In ancient times, however, it was considered a protective stone that could attract happiness.
Most of the time, a cut red spinel will be more affordable than a ruby. Depending on the number of carats and the quality of the cut, as well as the level of purity and intensity of color, the price of a red spinel can sometimes climb. Some stones are exceptional.
It is therefore possible to buy a red spinel of 1 carat or a little more for €1,000, €3,000, €5,000, €10,000... These wide price variations can also be explained by the presence or absence of treatments (other than heating the stones, which is almost never performed on spinels), the country of origin and the presence or absence of a certificate.
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