Description

Bargain priced untreated 1.29 Milky Silky Red/Orange/Pink Mahenge Spinel. I've had it for a few years from the original deposit Mahenge mines. This one is unusual as it faces fire engine red to fire engine red/orange against the white gem tray but when you put it against skin with more light around it, it is more of either a pink or a lighter pinky orangey red more like looking at the dark end of a Pad sapphire than a spinel. It is milky on the hand, and more milky IRl than my pics,but not unpleasant to look at. It ranges from a orangey red to a pink to a pinky orangey red depending upon the lighting situation. Do not buy this stone if you expect a red red. A straight red in this material would be thousands of dollars.

The oval measures 7.68 x 6.05 x 3.72 giving a nice spready size. It might indeed look redder set with a bezel or something around it, I don't know. Any way you set it, it is still a pretty stone.

Asking $175.00USD which is a fraction for what I see similar items this size and colour selling for these days. The shipping is $25.00USD trackable registered signed for service to the US.

My direct email is arkieb1@yahoo.com