Spinel Gemstones: Hardness, colors, prices and heat treatments

Hey guys!
today were going to be covering one of the most underrated gemstones, spinel! We will be covering a spinels refraction index, what colors are available, how to identify them and more! We will aslo show examples of pink, blue, red spinel's and more. I'd love to know which color is your favorite!
To see spinel prices you can click the link below to see real life examples of different colors, qualities and their corresponding prices.:

To watch our video on tourmalines:

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00:00 Introduction
00:28 Spinel Hardness
00:51 Spinel colors: reds, blues, pinks and greys
01:32 Spinel gemstone heat treatments?
03:21 Spinel refractive index
04:06 Spinel prices
05:26 Buying ethically sourced spinels
06:40 Identifying & synthetics

[prettybird]

Hello, I was very excited to find this video. I just got some of my first spinel! I like the color options and purchased some in red, blue, purple/grey and this incredible hot pink!
I had a couple questions about spinel. Is spinel heavier than some other gems. ( it seems like my spinel are smaller than equal carat gems of other types)
Does most spinel have a grey overtone?
Also what is the average carat weight of spinel?
As always, thank you for the informative videos.
Cheers

[Wahid]

Love the amount of knowledge provided.

[christiantorrens]

You should make a video about semi precious stones like amethyst and citrine qualities and prices

[samfisherskiller]

So the generic class rings that say green shamrock spinel are synthetic or natural? I was under the impression the stones used for that were basically costume jewelry stones.

[Dennym]

Thanks for the magnet trick. It works.

[tangojuli]

thanks for the look into spinels. I'm getting more and more interested in these gems and loved the greyish tones to the purple and blues/ bluegreens. (PS: future videos, maybe avoid the sound effect dubs? its distracting from your content.)

[iviolinstudio]

You looking now much much better true beautiful but 2 years ago like different person 😮😢

[Sovnarkom]

I want to learn more about Agate if you guys are interested.

[ivolgagem]

Very nice color samples, but unfortunately Spinel can be heated to enhance color and filled with oil or resin to enhance clarity. Treated spinels are very rare, but we see more and more stones on market. So for expensive stone good certificate is a must have option.

[isurumaddumage]

Spinels get heat treated to remove the milky appearance in them and improve clarity. I never had success in altering colour of spinel by heat treating them though.

[dhananjayamawalagedara]

I'm from Srilanka. I have lot of spinels

[saihlawn]

I have lot of spinels (mogok).I'm from Myanmar and I Want to sell .

[GrenzenlosesEuropa]

I’m from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰, I have a gem stone. Could you please help to find genuine buyers

[rogerp]

The best jewelry in my opinion is the one in your nose.