Figuring out how each new gem garnet fits into the six main mineral species is a challenge for gemologists.

There are more than twenty garnet categories, called species, but only five are commercially important as gems. Those five are pyrope, almandine (also called almandite), spessartine, …

Discover the meaning and history of garnet, the January birthstone, and where it can be found.

To appreciate the rainbow of garnets available, you have to see them. Find a retailer who can show you tsavorite, rhodolite, and one of the orange garnets. You’ll be surprised at how …

These gemstones come in almost every color. Red is the most common garnet color, and is found in metamorphic rocks around the world. Other colors like green, orange, and purple-red are …

Jan 3, 2014 · GIA’s Garnet Buying Guide offers key pointers on what quality factors to look for, and helps you differentiate between some of the garnet varieties, for example two of the green …

Garnet, January’s birthstone, is one of the most diverse gemstones, as it comes in an extraordinary range of colors. The garnet birthstone is mined around the world and symbolizes …

garnets: any deep, pure red garnet is usually re- garded as pyrope, any violetish-red garnet has been automatically assumed to be rhodolite, and so on. Such assumptions are not necessarily …

Depending on type, garnet hardness ranges from 6.5 to 7.5 on the Mohs scale. For example, almandine, pyrope, spessartine, and tsavorite are on the harder side while demantoid is a bit …

Garnet. Garnets are a set of closely related minerals forming a group, with gemstones in almost every color.