Red garnets have a long history, but modern gem buyers can pick from a rich palette of garnet colors: greens, oranges, pinkish oranges, deeply saturated purplish reds, and even some …

In the Middle Ages (about 475 to 1450 AD), red garnet was favored by clergy and nobility. Red garnet’s availability increased with the discovery of the famous Bohemian garnet deposits in …

Red garnet is one of the most common and widespread of gems, found in metamorphic rocks (which are rocks altered by heat and pressure) on every continent. But not all garnets are as …

What’s AAA-quality garnet? Although individual companies might create their own quality descriptions, like AAA, AA and A, to denote the range of quality of their goods, no standard …

A very fine 4.5 × 3.1 × 2.1 cm specimen of raspberry-red grossular from skarn deposits, with crystals approaching 1 cm. The matrix consists of calcite, quartz, wollastonite, and scapolite. …

Garnets do come in a pure red hue, but they are rare in sizes over a half carat. It is much more common to see garnets with a significant brown component to the red or a very dark tone that …

Garnets of the red-to-violet color range gen- erally associated with the pyrope-almandine series reflect the problems associated with gem garnets in general. The importance of color in gems …

Typical garnet clarity depends on garnet type. For example, the red garnets almandine, pyrope, and rhodolite typically do not have eye-visible inclusions. Some of the orange garnets, like …

Q: IS THERE A RED GARNET THE COLOR OF RUBY? A: Garnets do come in a pure red hue but they are rare in sizes over a half carat. It is much more common to see garnets with a …

Those born in January are lucky to have the beautiful and diverse garnet as their birthstone. Garnets are commonly red but also come in an extraordinary range of beautiful colors, …