Garnet Minerals - The Many Colors of Garnets

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Spessartine is an uncommon garnet. Spessartite or spessartine is manganese aluminum garnet, Mn3Al2(SiO4)3. Madagascar's spessartine garnet is a recently discovered variety with a beautiful raspberry body color, and spectacular salmon-pink fire.

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Anniversary Rings | Anniversary Bands | Anniversary Gifts | Wedding Anniversary Gift Ideas |

What is more joyous and heartfelt than giving your loved one a special gift each year to commemorate a wedding anniversary? Traditionally, every anniversary is celebrated by giving a gift made from a different material. It isn't clear when this traditional list came into existence.

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New & Hot In Tucson

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Tucson’s gem and mineral shows are the most important loose colored gemstone shows in the world. For a week or two in early February, the city boasts the widest variety of gemstones and gem-related information available anywhere in the world. What started as an event sponsored by a local gem and

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Garnet - Gemstone Information

Introduction Garnet is a naturally occurring gemstone. Its name comes from Latin granatus meaning seed, because it often resembles small round seeds when found in its matrix rock. Rather than a single gemstone, garnet is a family of related minerals, some of which occur as gemstones.

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About Almandite / Almandine - Jewelry Television™

Almandite is a variety of garnet. It is usually found in a violet red hue. On Mohs’ scale of hardness, almandite is 7.5. It has a vitreous luster and primary sources include Brazil, India, Madagascar, Sri Lanka and the United States.

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Code#: almm104 Weight: 4.6 Lbs (2.1 kgs) Size: 7.3" x 5.0" x 2.7" (18.5cm x 13cm x 7cm) Location: Itabira, Brazil Price: $62.50 This biotite mica matrix specimen with almandine garnet (also known as almandite) has a large garnet crystal measuring over 2.5" across!

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Various minerals 1999

Thaumasite From Viscaria, Kiruna, Sweden. It is very hard to get a good picture of this rock. It is made up of a lot of small needles and pure white. A gift from Jorge Alves, Umeå.

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Garnet Family

The garnets make up two solid solution series; 1) pyrope-almandine-spessarite and 2) uvarovite-grossularite-andradite. The majority of garnet goes into the manufacture of sand-paper.

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Faceting Design/Diagram: Garnet - Pyrope, Rhodolite, Almandine, Spessartite, Grossular, Demantoid,

Point "R" (GNETP27.JRG) By Jeff R. Graham Copyright 1995 81.1% Light Return Angles for R.I. = 1.73 71 facets + 10 facets on girdle = 81 2-fold, mirror-image symmetry 96 index L/W = 1.290 T/W = 0.833 T/L = 0.646 P/W = 0.454 C/W = 0.173 H/W = (P+C)/W+0.02 = 0.647 P/H = 0.701 C/H = 0.268 Vol./W^3 = 0.

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AIGS : Asian Institute of Gemological Sciences

Almandite is the most common of the garnets and is usually the garnet found in garnet schists. Although only a small amount of this mineral is fit for gem use, it is nevertheless a popular gem. It is the most widely used Garnet in the gem trade.

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