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This time we are talking about Chrome Diopside. Chrome Diopside is a deep green color gemstone. Due to Chromium, its color is so deep. This is why it is also known as Chromium Diopside. The first ever Chrome Diopside, was found in Siberia in 1988 and after that it was also found in Pakistan. These two countries are the main suppliers of this gemstone in commercial quantity & quality. Chrome Diopside is a transparent gemstone and bigger size gemstones than 10 mm are really difficult to find out. The hardness of this gemstone is 5 to 6, so it is very soft. Hence it is very difficult to in any shape or size. Smaller sizes are even more difficult to cut and set. If you have any chance of getting Chrome Diopside in fine quality and small size, it is very valuable and worth collecting. The special gravity of this gemstone is 3.27 to 3.5. There is no known treatment to enhance the quality or color of Chrome Diopside. If you want to know more about Chrome...

Today we are giving some information about Spinel gemstones. There are a few members in Spinel family like Red Spinel, Blue Spinel, Purple Spinel, White Spinel and Black Spinel. Here we are talking about Black Spinel. As you may know that earlier (around 150 or 200 years ago) there was some confusion in recognition with Spinel gemstone and Ruby or Blue Sapphire. It was due to lack of knowledge in recognition of Spinel gemstone. The perfect example of this confusion is ‘The Black Princess Ruby, which is there in the Crown of England’. Now to move further, Black Spinel is an opaque gemstone and it resembles like Black diamond because it is opaque and black in color. So people tend to use Black Spinel as a substitute of Black Diamond and it costs lesser as well in comparison to Black Diamond. The hardness of Black Spinel is 7.5 to 8, so it is very easy to cut in any size or shape and it is very easy to set black spinel in the jewellery as well. Black Spinel i...