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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Seminar touts American gems

News  |  www.jckonline.com | Jun 3, 2004

“Buying and selling American gemstones is much more than just a patriotic cliché,” said Gary Roskin during a Thursday morning seminar titled “Mined in America.” “It just makes good gemological sense.” Roskin pointed out that we can’t control what happens to all gemstones, but U.S. law and close

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Untitled Page - Goldstake Explorations Buys Into Transpacific Resources

(Rapaport…August 13, 2003) Transpacific Resources reports that Goldstake Explorations Inc. of Toronto has acquired an option to earn up to 60 percent interest in Transpacific's diamond project in the Larder Lake area of North Eastern Ontario, Canada.

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Garnet Mineral Information

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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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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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