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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
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 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
Determining Garnet Composition from Magnetic Susceptibility and . . . - GIA Using selected samples from the large group studied by Manson and Stockton, this article compares garnet compositions from GIA’s electron microprobe data to those inferred from the GIA-measured properties that were combined with the author’s measured magnetic susceptibilities
Garnet Care and Cleaning Guide - GIA Garnets have fair to good toughness, making them durable enough for all jewelry styles as long as they are treated with the proper care Garnets should not be subjected to any hard blows or rough wear Depending on type, garnet hardness ranges from 6 5 to 7 5 on the Mohs scale
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
Garnet with Apatite Inclusions - GIA Raman analysis confirmed the blue inclusions as apatite It is also notable that the garnet sample showed a weak color change in daylight compared to various non-standardized, commercially available LED types of lighting, changing from purplish pink to pink-orange
GIAs Gubelin Gem Project: Garnet Often thought of as a deep red gemstone, garnet can also be yellow, orange, green or brown – any color except blue There are six common garnet minerals – almandine, andradite, grossular, pyrope, spessartine and uvarovite – and several rare species
Bohemian Garnet-Today The classic Bohemian garnet is the Mg-Al-rich member of the garnet group known as pyrope, in which minor substitutions of iron and especially chromium are responsible for the characteristic "fire-red" hue