Here’s a new design I made the other day. I had this shape in mind, but wanted something a bit different. The stone is tipped a bit in the picture, and that’s why the culet looks off center, but it’s not. The stone is a spinel from Morogoro Tanzania, and weighs 1.72 cts.

Tags: Spinel

Just finished up a new spinel. This is another stone from Tajikistan that is 5.07 cts. Rather large for these spinels. Here's an article by Richard Hughes and Vincent Pardieu dealing with ruby and these spinels from Tajikistan.




I haven't been slacking the past week, I was actually working on some stones for one of them members of the GemBusters forum. Here they are..
Try to guess what they are!

Tags: Spinel