About the product:

📿 Type: Multi-row necklace (3)

💎 Bead Type: Spinel - Faceted, Polished, and Shiny Finish

🌍 ⛏️ Origin: Brazil

⛓️ Metal type option: 925 Silver - Silver-plated brass - Gold-plated brass

🏷️ Hallmark: 925 for silver models

📏 Size option: 40 centimeter wire - 17 to 21 centimeter bracelet - 45 centimeter necklace + 5 centimeter extension for adjustment

📐 Pearl dimensions: 2/3 and 4/6 millimeters

⚖️ Weight: ± 25 grams

📜 Certificate: Zen Curiosity

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📋 Mineralogical sheet:

Characteristic	Information

Name	Spinel (from the Latin spina = thorn, in reference to its sharp crystals)

Category

Oxides

Chemical formula

MgAl₂O₄ (magnesium aluminum oxide) – may contain iron, chromium, zinc, etc.

Color

Very varied: bright red, pink, blue, purple, green, black; the red variety was long confused with ruby

Hardness (Mohs)

7.5 – 8

Density

3.55 – 4.10 g/cm³

Transparency

Transparent to opaque

Glow	Vitreous to slightly adamantine

Crystallography

Cubic (isometric) system, often in perfect octahedra

Main deposits

Burma (Myanmar), Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Madagascar

Uses	Precious gem in jewelry (historical alternative to ruby ​​and sapphire), mineralogical collections

Historical particularities

Famous red spinels were long considered rubies (e.g. the "Black Prince's Ruby" of the English Crown)

Symbolic and spiritual properties

Vitality, energy, courage, regeneration, protection (according to lithotherapy)