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January Birthstone: Garnet
Both the modern and traditional birthstone for January is garnet. Garnets come in many colors, including red, yellow, orange, green,...
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Polishing Garnets And Tourmalines
Garnet and tourmaline are popular jewelry stones. Learn to use the best techniques, abrasives, and laps for polishing garnets and...
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How Do Garnets Form?
A versatile gem and the famous January birthstone, garnet is a favorite among jewelers and consumers. Learn how garnets form...
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Gadolinium Gallium Garnet Faceting Information
Gadolinium Gallium Garnet or GGG, is a crystalline material of the garnet group which may also find use in jewelry...
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Uvarovite Garnet Faceting Information
Practical tips on uvarovite garnet faceting information. Covers Uvarovite Faceting & Garnet Information related issues, research and guide.
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Malaya Garnet Buying Guide
Rare malaya garnets come in many colors and make wonderful jewelry stones for any style. Learn the 4 Cs of...
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Second Year Anniversary Gift Guide: Garnet Jewelry
The traditional gift for a second year wedding anniversary is garnet jewelry, representing passion, love, commitment, and friendship.
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Red and More: Choosing Garnet Engagement Ring Stones
Garnets come in a wide range of colors, not just classic red, and many are relatively affordable. Learn how to...
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Faceting Survey Results – Polishing – Garnet
Faceting Survey Results for Polishing Garnet stones. Know the preferred polishing methods for Garnet. Also, view results for various procedures...
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Garnet Buying Guide
With so many colors and varieties available, garnet buying can be daunting. Whether starting your collection or completing it, our...
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Garnet Symbolism
Garnet symbolism is rich and varied. The January birthstone has inspired many legends and popular associations with love, friendship, light,...
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Identifying Garnets Simplified
Identifying garnets by species is complicated. Learn how to use refractive index, hue, and absorption spectrum readings to simply the...
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Laced Garnet: Faceting Design Diagram
Successful tips and guide on Faceting Designs. A Faceting Design Diagram by Jeff R. Graham that presents various cuts, this...
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Mineralogy of Silicates: Nesosilicates and Sorosilicates
Silicates include well-known minerals such as zircon, topaz, and garnet. Learn how to identify minerals from two silicate sub-groups.
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Demantoid Garnet Faceting
Essential information on demantoid faceting / facet garnet. Read up on the cuts, polishes, tips and a detailed guide on...
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Almandine Garnet Faceting
Almandine is the most popular amongst the Garnet family. With its widespread around the world, only a small percentage being...
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Angles for Cutting Garnets
Cutting garnets and other color saturated gems for brilliance can be challenging. Here's some advice for choosing the best angles...
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Why Custom Gem Cutting Makes a Difference
How does commercial cutting stack up to custom gem cutting? Compare these two similar rhodolite garnets in four key ways...
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Demantoid Garnet Buying Guide
Stunning green hues and a brilliance that outshines diamond combine to make demantoids truly captivating. Read more in our demantoid...
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Anniversary Gifts By Year
The anniversary gift for year 1 is gold, and the anniversary gift for year 2 is garnet. Our chart tells...
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Are Serengeti Rubies Real Rubies?
Although Tanzania is a source of rubies, so-called Serengeti rubies are more likely to be garnets. Learn more about rubies...
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Rose Heart: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams
Jeff Graham’s Rose Heart gem design has a lot of steps but not many facets. It’s fast and easy to...
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Color Change in Garnet
Jeff R Graham shares his opinions and thoughts on various topics in Just Ask Jeff.See what his answers are to...
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Birthstone Chart
What are the birthstones by month? January is garnet, February is amethyst, March is aquamarine, April is diamond, May is...
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Pyrope (Rhodolite) Garnet Faceting
Tips and suggestions about Pyrope Faceting. Brief details and straightforward information on Pyrope Faceting. Choose cuts that best fit Pyrope...
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Red Gemstones: Ruby, Spinel, Garnet, and Other Great Picks for Jewelry
Red gemstones are popular choices for engagement rings and fine jewelry. The three most popular stones are ruby, garnet, and...
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Rhodolite Garnet Value, Price, and Jewelry Information
Rhodolites are purplish red garnets, a blend between almandine and pyrope in composition. These durable gems have become popular jewelry...
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Hessonite Garnet Value, Price, and Jewelry Information
Also known as the “cinnamon stone,” hessonite is the yellow-orange to reddish orange variety of grossular garnet. Hessonites can make...
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Almandine Garnet Value, Price, and Jewelry Information
Almandine is perhaps the most common garnet species. Forming series with pyrope and spessartine garnets, these gems occur in the...
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Mali Garnet Value, Price, and Jewelry Information
One of the rarer varieties in the garnet group, Mali garnet is a blend of grossular and andradite. This gemstone...
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Hydrogrossular Garnet Value, Price, and Jewelry Information
Hydrogrossular differs from the other garnets in that it is never transparent. It ranges from translucent to opaque. The most...
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Spessartite Garnet Value, Price, and Jewelry Information
Usually orange to reddish brown, gem-quality spessartite or spessartine garnets are somewhat rare. However, as blends with other garnet species,...
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Mandarin Garnet Value, Price, and Jewelry Information
While the colors of spessartite garnet gemstones cover a wide range of orange shades, the mandarin garnet is as pure...
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Demantoid Garnet Value, Price, and Jewelry Information
One of the rarest garnet varieties, demantoid can have a green color that rivals emerald and a fire that exceeds...
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Uvarovite Garnet Value, Price, and Jewelry Information
Always a dark, rich green color, uvarovite is one of the rarest members of the garnet family. Usually only seen...
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Tsavorite Garnet Value, Price, and Jewelry Information
An emerald-green variety of grossular garnet, tsavorite is one of the most popular and expensive varieties of garnet. Suitable for...
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Grossular Garnet Value, Price, and Jewelry Information
Grossular garnets come in almost every color, even colorless, except blue. However, unlike other garnets, they’re rarely red or dark....
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Andradite Garnet Value, Price, and Jewelry Information
Andradite is one of the most sought after garnet species. Although more sources have been discovered in recent decades, gem-quality...
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Pyrope Garnet Value, Price, and Jewelry Information
Pyrope always occurs in series with other garnet species. Common, dark red garnets are a mixture of almandine and pyrope....
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Malaya or Malaia Garnet Value, Price, and Jewelry Information
Malaia or malaya garnets are typically light to dark, slightly pinkish orange, reddish orange, or yellowish orange in color. This...
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Color Change Garnet Value, Price, and Jewelry Information
Any stone that changes color under different types of light is a rare treat for collectors. Color change garnets show...
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Yttrium Aluminum Garnet Faceting Information
Yttrium (YAG) is also known as various other names in the gemstone market today such as diamonite. This may also...
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Pent Mod “R”: Faceting Design Diagram
Successful tips and guide on Faceting Designs. A Faceting Design Diagram by Jeff R. Graham that presents various cuts, this...
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Diamond Lookalikes Listed by Specific Gravity
Distinguishing diamond lookalikes from the real thing can be challenging. Learn how to use specific gravity and birefringence to make...
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A Guide to Gem Classification
Gemologists use several different gem classification methods. Learn how the most common systems work and what they cover as well...
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Table of Refractive Indices and Double Refraction of Selected Gems
Refractive indices and double refraction (birefringence) help gemologists identify gems. The following table lists these values for selected gemstones.
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The Dichroscope: A Faceter’s Guide
A dichroscope can distinguish the colors of pleochroic gems. Learn how gem cutters can use this tool to choose the...
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