Garnet Gemstones
"Garnet gemstones form beautiful cubic crystals."
Garnet is the name given to a group of gemstones known since the Bronze Age.
There are six common species, all recognised by chemical composition - Pyrope, Alamandine, Grossular, Uvarovite, Grossular and Andatite.
Garnets are found in a myriad of colours including red, yellow, orange, green, brown, blue, purple, black, grey, wine, pink and colourless.
The rarest Garnet displays a colour-change from blue-green in daylight to purple in incandescent light.
Another collector’s Garnet is the bright green Uvarovite usually found in small crystals in Russia and Finland, while another green Garnet is Tsavorite from Kenya, named and launched by Tiffany & Co in 1974.
The most popular variety of Garnet to the general public is arguably ruby-red from Bohemia.
The natural crystal shape of Garnet belongs to the cubic system showing 12 distinct sides.
Garnets are more usually found in creek beds, in metamorphic or igneous rocks.
Garnet crystals. By fluor_doublet
This page was written by Magda Palmer, a gemmologist and the author of The Healing Power of Crystals
, Precious Stones
and Feng Shui Student
Manual
, which I
highly recommend.Back to List of Gemstones
