Malaya (malaia) garnetis one of the rarer and more interesting 'hybrid' varieties of garnet. It is primarily a mix ofpyropeandspessartine, which was first discovered in the 1960s. It was discovered in the Umba River Valley borderingTanzaniaand Kenya, which remains the primary source for malay...
Spessartine is also known as "spessartite" or as "mandarin garnet" because of its yellow-orange to orange-red color. It is a popular variety of garnet used in jewelry. Sphalerite With a dispersion that is 3x that of diamond, sphalerite can be a very attractive faceted stone. It is popula...
This gemstone was unique enough to capture the attention outside of the U.S. and now appears online in the following article: A Multi-Colored Andradite or Possibly a Demantoid? 3.59ct Yellowish Pyrope-Spessartine Garnet. The color is a yellow with a hint of orange. The color did ...
The crystal production that develops within a geode depends on several variables including the amount of moisture trapped within the geode, the various chemicals and rich minerals deposited, and the amount of pressure applied to the geode. If the balance of these variables is just right, crystal ...
Rhodolite, Almandine, Spessartine, Grossular, Andralite, and Uvarovite are the six main types of Garnet. All are different colors and have different chemical makeups but most are varieties of aluminum silicate and consist of two or more of the following elements: calcium, magnesium, ferrous or ...
TSAVORITE PYROPE SPESSARTINE UVAROVITE JADE (a variety of two minerals: Jadeite and Nephrite) KORNERUPINE OLIVINE Variety: PERIDOT QUARTZ Crystalline Varieties: Variety: AMETHYST (violet) Variety: CITRINE (yellow to orange) Variety: PRASIOLITE (green) Variety: ROCK CRYSTAL (colorless) Variety: ROSE...
Spessartine Garnet: Also called Spessartite. Named from the word for "forest" where they were found in Germany. It's color is orange to red-brown. Also found in Burma, Brazil, Kenya, China, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Tanzania and the United States. Tsavorite Garnet: Green to emerald green in...
In pegmatites, gemstones are related to granitic magma events and mainly occur in pegmatitic cavities, such as tourmaline, aquamarine, spodumene, spessartine, moonstone, quartz, apatite, and topaz. The eruption of Tertiary basaltic magma provides gem-quality sapphire, spinel, olivine, garnet, and ...
Pyrope (bright red to dark brick-red), Rhodolite (pinkish-red), Almandine (deep violet-red), Spessartite (orange-pink to orange-red with brownish yellow), Spessartine (midway between almondine and spessartite), Hessonite (honey-yellow to yellow-brown), Grossularite (light yellowish-green to ...
Tourmalines are mostly schorl and dravite, and garnets are mostly almandine, spessartine, and grossular. Tourmaline, beryl, and garnet from pegmatites in the contact aureole of Jurassic granites reflect segregations of Be, B, Mn, and Al bearing melts from the Jurassic peraluminous granites. ...