Enhancements
Pink Spinel is not enhanced.
More information on gemstone enhancements.
Pink Spinel ...
[Pink spinel, pretty, but somewhat desaturated and relatively common, spectral red spinel, pretty, close to top-level saturation, and super-rare!] ...
Red to pink spinel from Mahenge, Tanzania
Balas Ruby
An historical name for spinel, which referred to gems from the Kuh-i-Lal mine in Badakhshan in present-day Tajikistan ...
Oval brilliant pink spinel from Burma, 7.79 cts., 15.12 x 12.94 x 9.05 mm. Inventory #13859. (Photo: Wimon Manorotkul) ...
The absorption spectrum of red and pink spinel is typical of stones, which owe their color to chromium.
The highest quality transparent blood-red "ruby spinel" and hot-pink spinel has come from the Pein Pyit (Painpyit) mine, Bawpadan mine, Inn Gaung Pyant mine, and Pingutaung mine in Mogok, ...
Source of most of the famous large red spinels; finest red and pink spinel found here.
Source is metamorphosed limestone and its weathering products (gem gravels).
Grey-blue or black material may show 6- or 4-rayed stars.
Several colors have trade names, purple spinel is called "almandine spinel", very dark blue-green stones are called "pleonast", and orange-pink spinel is called "rubicelle".
2nd Place
Allen Kleiman
A. Kleiman & Co.
Pair of asscher-cut pink Spinels (9.60 ctw.).
Pink quartz is almost always milky, and shows little dichroism. Pink spinel is without dichroism, being singly refracting. Hardness and specific gravity tests will best serve to distinguish pink stones from each other.
 See also: Stone, Pink, Spinel, Color, Ruby
  
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