Other mining sites include China, Myanmar, Pakistan, Tanzania, Vietnam and the United States. Peridot is often given as gifts for the sixteenth wedding anniversaries. Spinel comes in a ...

Found in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Vietnam, Afghanistan ... part of the British Crown Jewels, is in fact a spinel. In 2015, the auction house Bonhams sold the 50.13-carat Hope Spinel for a world ...

gem dealers and retailers should also carefully screen their purchases of other gems Burma is known to produce, such as sapphires and spinel, to guarantee that they do not support the unethical ...

The Hope Spinel will be among the top lots of Bonhams London Fine Jewellery Sale on September 24. The 50.13-carat octagonal step-cut spinel is expected to fetch $240,000 - $310,000. However ...

By Kathleen Beckett Pity the poor spinel. The gemstone that many people have never heard of has been saddled for centuries with the name “the great impostor,” Alessandro Borruso said as he ...