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February 15, 2008

Purple Iris Spinel Gemstone Necklace

This beautiful colorful gemstone necklace is a real treasure. The purple iris transparent aurora borealis Czech glass seed beads highlight the natural beauty and color of the 4mm natural spinel gemstones. Fantastic blue, yellow, green, purple, pink, orange/pink and red!!

Spinel is a natural cousin of ruby and sapphire, in fact has a very close chemical composition. Spinel is made of magnesium aluminum oxide and ruby is made of aluminum oxide, as is sapphire. The red coloring of both spinel and ruby comes from the same natural element, which is chromium. Spinel and ruby also have very similar luster, density and hardness, as with sapphire.

This beautiful necklace makes a quiet statement of elegance with it’s highly refractive (sparkling) little gemstones. Clasp is a sterling silver heart motif toggle clasp.

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