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 practically eye-clean with the exception of one small feather on the periphery that should facet out with normal faceting and a little planning. This is a nice and chunky crystal section practically preformed for above average yield and it should cut Eye-Clean to Flawless with a little effort. The stone is ideally shaped for some form of a Cushion. This IS SELECT ROUGH! The color saturation on this and the fact that the stone is running roughly 90%+ 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.