Multi Spinel 3mm Banded Faceted Round - 15-16 Inch featured_07162026 Blue Apatite ranges in color

Blue Apatite ranges in color from light teal to blue to bright blue to dark blue to green

Inspired by the iconic mood jewelry of the 1960s and 1970s

South Africa

Chrome-bearing fuchsite (a variety of muscovite mica) is the classic inclusion

The fibrous asbestos inclusions in the stone give it the flash that inspired its name

Multi Spinel 3mm Banded Faceted Round - 15-16 Inch featured_07162026 Blue Apatite ranges in colorSpinel is a hard vitreous magnesium aluminum oxide, and comes in a range of other colors, but those varieties are transparent. Black Spinel not only has the dark color, but it is opaque as well, rendering its black especially deep and mysterious. Sometimes called the "Black Prince's Ruby" for its role in the English crown. It has been mistaken for ruby and sapphire at times, but can be distinguished by its structure and its lower relative hardness.