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Blue Spinel

Blue Spinel — Spinel

Blue spinel runs from affordable steely grey-blue to the electrifying, extremely rare cobalt blue — a singly refractive sapphire alternative with its own collector market.

Colour
blue
Transparency
Transparent
RI
1.718–1.736
SG
3.58–3.98
Mohs
8.0
Birthstone
August
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