WOWWWWWWWW FOLKS! That is all I can say! I have been coming for close to a decade and we have only seen Pink Spinel in this size on 2 or 3 occasions and this is the best of the material we have seen produced! The color on this is THE MOST INSANE PINK you will probably ever see!

To give you a rundown on this material and what the seller had to go through, 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. The seller of this material had to endure 3 months IN Tajikistan for this material and when leaving he had to purchase a car worth about $5,000 so he could throw this material in the Gas tank just to cross the border with it! From my understanding the original seller of this material is the ONLY person bringing it out of Tajikistan and supplying the local market with it. There are others transferring it through other routes and we have been hearing that the Russian Mafia is directly involved in the other trading routes. This material is EXTREMELY limited and rarely found in this size. We had to go through one hell of a fight with 3 local dealers to get a parcel and it was sold off once before we finally were able to work something out with the seller to offer it to our clients!

Now, a rundown on the material! It is rare to get clean stones from Tajikistan nowadays especially in the 2+ gram range! Inclusions in this colored Spinel are ACCEPTABLE here in the local market and in the larger sizes acceptable pretty much everywhere. The price on this caliber material is probably running $200+ Per Gram in Tanzania when produced (seldom if ever these days). Three of the four smallest stones should easily cut Eye-Clean to very slightly included depending on orientation and desire for weight return. The five larger pieces average about 23 CARATS a PIECE! They unfortunately have some inclusions; however, they are ALL VERY GEMMY. You can go for the cleaner stones and divide the rough up or go for larger stones that will cut Very Slightly Included to Slightly Included for Spinel depending on orientation and weight return preferences. We are confident you will take out several stones that are 2-5 carats and eye-clean to very slightly included with a little hard work if you went for the cleanest stones from the larger rough. This is a parcel I would LOVE to keep for myself and we will probably purchase the parcel ourselves for New York sales if it doesn't sell from here. Please note that our grading for Spinel is reflective of the "type" of stone it is where inclusions are more readily acceptable in finished gemstones in larger sizes than say with Quartz!

From all the lots we have ever offered this is probably the lot that I would say is hands down the best buy we have as well as the most AWESOME material for size and color. I wish it were Eye-clean but I know it would probably cost about $20,000 locally! Don't miss your chance at this as I don't know ANYONE who sells this material in the rough in the US as the larger stones are faceted right away because of the insane prices they command!

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