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Garnet Minerals - The Many Colors of Garnets

News  |  ezinearticles.com | Oct 20, 2008

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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Rhodolite Garnet

News  |  www.jckonline.com | Dec 1, 2002

There are five basic gem garnet species: grossularite, pyrope, almandite, spessartite, and andradite. It would certainly make life easy for jewelers and gemologists if each garnet grew solely within its own mineralogical boundaries. But they don't. Pyrope, for example, can intermix with

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Garnet Mineral Information

News  |  ezinearticles.com | Oct 20, 2008

The history of Garnet dates back to the Bronze Age (more than 5000 years ago), when it was a very popular gemstone. Garnet is a family of minerals having similar physical and crystalline properties. Garnet is found in a wide variety of metamorphic rocks and in some igneous rocks.

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Gem and Diamond Colors Explained

News  |  ezinearticles.com | Oct 20, 2008

The colors we see depend on how light travels through a gemstone. Crystal structure and the metallic elements present in minute amounts in the gemstone determine this. Many gems appear colored because part of the white light traveling through them is absorbed within the mineral structure.

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New & Hot In Tucson

News  |  www.jckonline.com | Apr 1, 1998

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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GemNotes

News  |  www.jckonline.com | Jan 1, 1998

DE BEERS WON'T SUPPORT SMALL DIAMOND PRICES Producers of small diamonds outside the Central Selling Organisation umbrella will no longer “get a free ride” from De Beers’ market protection and advertising, De Beers director Gary Ralfe told participants in the second Financial Times Diamond

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