Pink Spinel

The cost and investment potential of pink spinel

Natural pink spinel is extremely popular today gemstone. It is important to note that despite the fact that pink spinel available on the market is wider than the red, the demand is still much greater than the supply. This leads to continuous growth of cost, on top of the rock samples, we can observe the annual growth of 10-20%. It puts the pink spinel in a row with such attractive gems such as red spinel, untreated varieties of sapphire, ruby etc.

The formation of the cost on the noble pink spinel largely depends on the purity and, most importantly, the color. The most valuable and rare are samples of saturated pink, fuchsia and pink-red hues, but more often in the market you can find spinel lighter color with purple or component. Definitely important pricing factors are the weight and origin of the gem. The most expensive and striking instances of pink spinels fall on the global market for gems from of Tanzania (the field Mahenge) and Burma (Myanmar, Mogok mine), lighter jewelry spinel often come from Vietnam, Sri Lanka or Tajikistan (Pamir).

Price per carat

Because of the wide color palette we observe a large variation in price per carat natural pink spinel high jewelry quality. Based on our years of experience we can give the following figures: pale pink with a mass of 3-5 carats are in the range of $300-600 per carat, weighing 5-9 carats $700-1500 per carat. On the bright rose-red or neon-pink carat value is thousands of dollars.