WOWWWWWWWW FOLKS! Awesome Deep Bubblegum Pink TOP SELECT Spinel Faceting Rough from the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan. It is rare to get clean stones from Tajikistan nowadays and prices on location can go up to $2,500 Per Gram depending on size! We are working on securing additional material in larger sizes and better quality but it is a daunting task competing for the material and almost everything we are acquiring is sold before we purchase it.

Overall this stone is extremely clean; however, the stone does have 2 or 3 surface fractures ON THE PERIPHERY that go into the stone a bit and the stone is not ideally shaped due to where the inclusions are situated. Our price on the stone is reflective of the these factors as this stone weighs in at almost 10 CARATS!! This is a nice and chunky crystal section shaped for above average yield if you don't mind the inclusions being put under the bezel facets it should cut very slightly to slightly included masking most of the inclusions with a little hard work. If you went for a clean stone yield should be around AVERAGE for the piece.

The stone is ideally shaped for some form of a Triangular  cut if you went for yield. If you go for a clean stone you will have to spend some time orienting the rough for the greatest yield and you will have various options as far as the type of cut best suited for the stone. This IS SELECT ROUGH! The color saturation on this and the fact that the stone is running roughly 85%+ Top Facet Grade makes this a must have! This will undoubtedly produce a stunning finished stone. We don't anticipate getting much more of this material in the near future (at least on any significant scale beyond a trickle here and there) as we really haven't run into small sized Tajik Spinel in the past. If you know what rough Pink Spinel is running in the market you know this is a deal not to be missed!!

1. In close to a decade we have only seen Pink Spinel from Tajikistan in the rough on a handful of occasions and usually in large sizes with unaffordable prices for everyone to enjoy a stone! The color on this is THE MOST INSANE PINK you will probably ever see!

2. This material is from the Tajik/Afghan border, officially from Tajikistan from the Pamir Range in Gorno Badakshan (a stones throw from Afghanistan). The area is unfortunately extremely hot for drug trafficking (Heroin) and as a result everyone who crosses the border is practically strip searched. There are only a handful of people capable of transferring this material out of Tajikistan through Afghanistan because of the "right connections." There are others transferring it through other routes through Russia and we have been hearing that the Russian Mafia is directly involved in the other trading routes. This material is EXTREMELY limited and rarely available.