GARNETGarnets are a set of closely related minerals forming a group, with gemstones in almost every color.
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Garnet Description
Garnets are a set of closely related minerals that from a group, resulting in gemstones in almost every color. Red garnets have a long history, but modern gem buyers can pick form a rich palette of garnet colors : greens, oranges, pinkish oranges, deeply saturated purplish reds, and even some blues.
All garnets have essentially the same crystal structure, but they vary in chemical composition. There are more than twenty garnet categories, called species, but only five are commercially important as gems. Those five are pyrope, almandine (also called almandine), spessartine, grossular (grossularite), and andradite. A sixth, uvarovite, is a green garnet that usually occurs as crystals too small to cut. it's sometimes set as clusters in jewellery. Many garnets are chemical mixtures of two or more garnet species.
All garnets have essentially the same crystal structure, but they vary in chemical composition. There are more than twenty garnet categories, called species, but only five are commercially important as gems. Those five are pyrope, almandine (also called almandine), spessartine, grossular (grossularite), and andradite. A sixth, uvarovite, is a green garnet that usually occurs as crystals too small to cut. it's sometimes set as clusters in jewellery. Many garnets are chemical mixtures of two or more garnet species.
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Demantoid is a rare and famous green garnet, spessartine (also called spessartine) is an orange garnet, and rhodolite is a beautiful purple-red garnet. Garnets can even exhibit the Color-change phenomenon similar to the rare gemstone alexandrite.
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