ALMANDITE
Overview: Almandite is the most common of the garnets and is usually the garnet found in garnet schists. Although only a small amount of this mineral is fit for gem use, it is nevertheless a popular gem.
Enhancements
Almandite garnet is not enhanced.
More information on gemstone enhancements.
Almandite ...
Almandite garnet is the most common color ranging from medium red to dark brownish red. The color is due to the content of iron-aluminium silicate.
Almandite/Almandine: A variety of fairly inexpensive garnet that is transparent and commonly deep crimson with tinges of purple. May resemble ruby.
Almandite and almandite-pyrope solid solution garnets are the best abrasive types, but andradite, grossularite, and pyrope also are used.
All species of garnet have been used as gemstones.
Almandite garnet, the "almandine" of the jeweler is less abundant than pyrope, when of gem quality. Ceylon furnishes some and India furnishes perhaps more.
Almandite (Garnet)
Avoid chemicals, steam and ultrasonic cleaning
Occasionally heat- treated or dyed to deepen color ...
Almandite
A brownish red Garnet due to iron and aluminum. From mining areas like India the color change to be violet.
Hardness : 7.5 Refractive Index : 1.76-181 Density : 3.92-4.17 ...
almandite (almandine garnet)
Almandite is a member of the garnet group of gemstones. It is one of six species recognized by gemologists. The dominant hue is red, but the overall color may be modified by a little violet.
Pyrope-almandite garnet, medium pink, 7.6 mm square cushion with a checkerboard crown, 2.13 carats. The color rendition in this photo is terrible, but the stone is a gorgeous bright pink. A great ringstone for $185.
Almandine [Almandite] - Fe3Al2Si3O12 - Iron Aluminum Silicate
This most common of the garnet species (an end member of two solid solution series) occurs in a wide variety of locations and environments.
--Almandite garnet crystals are found in a quartzose mica schist about 1.6 km west of Chelsea in Delaware County.
Almandite ... almandine ... see Garnet Alunite ... alumstone
hydrous sulfate of aluminum and potassium: KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6
Crystallography: Hexagonal, usually massive crystals are rare
Colors: white, gray, pink ...
The most commonly recognized are Pyrope, Almandite, Spessartite, Grossular and Andradite. The chemical formula for Garnet is complex with all species having a slightly different combination of elements.
" In chemical composition it may be considered as essentially an isomorphous mixture of pyrope and almandite, in the proportion of two parts pyrope to one part almandite.
Best known among the members of the Garnet family are the deep red varieties, Pyrope and Almandite. Pyrope, which derives its name from the Greek word meaning "firelike". The Pyrope lends itself especially well to massed effects.
Rhodolite is a combination of almandite and pyrope garnet, containing trace amounts of aluminum (Al), Iron (Fe) and magnesium (Mg) as allochromatic coloring agents.
While almandine garnets (also known as ‘almandite’) are the most common variety of garnets, those displaying the star are not at all common. Available in deep reds, almandine star garnets are found in Nigeria and Tanzania.
Garnet has a number of varietal names depending on color and composition. Examples include almandite, pyrope, rhodolite, grossular, uvarovite, spessartine, andradite, and demantoid.
Grape garnets are a rare, intense violet to purple-red garnet. Grape garnets are made up of almandite and spessartite. They have a hardness of 7-7.5 and a specific gravity of 3.8 - 3.9.
A: acicular, adamantine, adularescence, Akoya, allochromatic, alluvial, almandite garnet, ametrine, ammolite, Andalusite, angelsite, annealing, apatite, aventurescence ...
Grape Garnet is a rare, intense violet to purple-red garnet ade up of almandite and spessartite forms or garnet. Hardness=7-7.5, S.G.=3.8-3.9.
garnet (n) a family of minerals of varying colours. Differences in colour are determined by chemical composition. Types of garnet include pyrope, almandite, rhodolite, grossular, spessartite and demantoid. [buy garnet jewellery from Mochishop] ...
Rhodolite Garnet
A garnet composed of the minerals pyrope (blood-red or dark purplish in color) and almandite (dark brown to purple-red in color) resulting in a purple-pink garnet.
replace one another freely in the garnet group giving them appreciably different appearances, colors most common are red, purplish red and brownish red but are less common in green, orange and yellow; species and varieties include pyrope, almandite, ...
After a careful cleaning it was found to be a perfect dodecahedron crystal of an Almandite Garnet and was placed in the window of my mineral store at 246 West 23rd Street, for sale, with the price marked $100.00.
The pyralspite garnets all have aluminum in the B lattice position; magnesium, iron and manganese may substitute for one another in the A lattice site to produce pyrope (Mg3Al2(SiO4)3), almandite (Fe3Al2(SiO4)3), and spessartite (Mn3Al2(SiO4)3).
 See also: Garnet, Stone, Color, Gemstone, Pyrope
  
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