Tag: Spinel August

  • SPOTLIGHT ON SPINELS

    SPOTLIGHT ON SPINELS

    If you are an August baby, you are spoilt for choice — choose zingy green peridots or sensuous spinels. A relatively new birthstone for August, the spinel has remained one of the most under-appreciated gem, with emperors and monarchs often mistaking it for a ruby. Not surprisingly though, some of the world’s most famous ‘rubies’…