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Garnet
The gem of plenty,
garnet is one of the few gemstone varieties that spans a broad spectrum of
color. Named for its likeness to pomegranate seeds, garnet is best known
for its shades of red. But most are surprised to learn that garnet is
found in multiple hues of pink, purple, green, yellow, orange and brown.
January's birthstone, garnet has historically signified faith, friendship,
loyalty and truthfulness. Believed to calm anxiety, cheer the heart,
encourage guidance and inspire creativity, garnet illuminates the bright
disposition of those who wear it..
Lively, bright colors usually command higher prices in better qualities of
garnet that are typically free of inclusions. Rhodolite, particularly in
its reddish colors, and spessartite, in bright orange red, are uncommon and are
considered more valuable, with the rarest garnets being tsavorite and demantoid.
Oval Spessartite garnet and diamond ring
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