Color: The versatile garnet comes in a virtual rainbow of colors, including pink, red, purple, orange, yellow, violet, green, colorless, occasionally black, brown and many shades of red
and green. The most common color of garnets is reddish brown. Bohemian Garnet is deep red gemstone, Russian Demantoid and African Tsavorite are vibrant green.Description: Pyrope: Garnets are a group of common silicate minerals that have similar crystal structures and chemical compositions.
It can be translucent to transparent, sometimes opaque with a vitreous or resinous lustre. The best known type of garnet is red semi-precious stone pyrope, one of several red gems, which the ancients used to call Carbuncles.
Garnets are actually one of the largest families of gemstones. Most natural garnets are mixtures of two or more of the following
pure species: pyrope, almandine, spessartine, uvarovite, grossular, andradite. Garnets occur in a very wide variety of formations, colors, and clarities.The name's origin: Garnets were so called by the ancient Greeks since color reminded them of the pomegranate seed or granatum.
Birthstone: The garnet is considered
