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Product: Garnet (Natural Red).
Type: Un-Faceted Round
Size: 06.5 -07mm
STR Length: Approx. 16”
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Natural Red Garnet
Color: The versatile garnet comes in a virtual rainbow of colors, including pink, red, purple, orange, yellow, violet, green, colorless, occasionally black, and brown and many shades of red and green. The most common color of garnets is reddish brown. Bohemian Garnet is deep red gemstone; Russian Demantoid and African Tsavorite are vibrant green.
Description: Pyrope: Mg3Al2[SiO4]3. Garnets are a group of common silicate minerals that have similar crystal structures and chemical compositions It can be translucent to transparent, sometimes opaque with a vitreous or resinous luster. Garnets are actually one of the largest families of gemstones. Garnets occur in a very wide variety of formations, colors, and clarities.
Deposits: Garnets are found in a wide variety of locations including Kenya, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Brazil, India, Madagascar, Canada and USA. In USA garnet has been obtained in Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah, Florida, California and Virginia. The majority of today's Garnet supplies come from Africa. Notable quantities of garnets have been also found in Czech Republic and Spain. The oranges and browns of Spessartite and Hessonite hail from Namibia and Sri Lanka.
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