- Garnet Gemstone | Garnet Stone – GIA
Red garnets have a long history, but modern gem buyers can pick from a rich palette of garnet colors: greens, oranges, pinkish oranges, deeply saturated purplish reds, and even some blues
- Garnet Description - GIA
There are more than twenty garnet categories, called species, but only five are commercially important as gems Those five are pyrope, almandine (also called almandite), spessartine, grossular (grossularite), and andradite
- Garnet History and Lore - GIA
Thousands of years ago, red garnet necklaces adorned the necks of Egypt’s pharaohs, and were entombed with their mummified corpses as prized possessions for the afterlife In ancient Rome, signet rings with carved garnets were used to stamp the wax that secured important documents
- Garnet - Gemological Institute of America
Garnets are a group of mineral s that are very much alike These gemstones come in almost every color Red is the most common garnet color, and is found in metamorphic rocks around the world Other colors like green, orange, and purple-red are less common and more valuable
- January Birthstone | Garnet Birthstone Meaning | GIA
Garnet, January’s birthstone, is one of the most diverse gemstones, as it comes in an extraordinary range of colors The garnet birthstone is mined around the world and symbolizes happiness, wealth, and health
- Garnet Gemstone | Garnet Stone – GIA
Tips Advice 1 Find a retailer that can show you a variety of garnets To appreciate the rainbow of garnets available, you have to see them Find a retailer who can show you tsavorite, rhodolite, and one of the orange garnets You’ll be surprised at how beautiful fine garnet can be
- Garnet Buying Guide - GIA 4Cs
GIA’s Garnet Buying Guide offers key pointers on what quality factors to look for, and helps you differentiate between some of the garnet varieties, for example two of the green garnets: tsavorite and demantoid
- Garnet Quality Factors - GIA
The first thing a buyer of garnets needs to be aware of is the wide variety of garnet types At first, the sheer number of garnet varieties can seem bewildering It helps to think of the different types of garnets in terms of color Color Pyrope and almandine range in color from purple to orangy red
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