Pyrope

Pyrope Garnet Composition
Garnet refers to a group of minerals commonly found within metamorphic rock and associated with ultramafic igneous rock formations. Garnet is classified as a nesosilicate in the Silicate mineral group.

Pyrope
Pyrope garnets are another common dark red variety found in "Bohemian garnet" jewelry. Bohemian garnets were mined in the l9th century in Czechoslovakia but the mine is now depleted. Today beautiful small pyrope garnets are mined in Arizona.

Appearance
Pyrope garnet is colored a deep blood red by iron and chromium, giving a ruby like appearance.
Enhancements
Pyrope garnet is not enhanced.

Pyrope
Pyrope garnet is a very saturated red: beautiful small Pyrope garnets found in Arizona are called anthill garnet because they are mined by ants, who carry them up when they are excavating their anthills.

Pyrope
Dark to very dark purplish, pinkish, or blood-red, usually cut in small sizes (under 2 carats), as larger stones appear black. Czechoslovakia provided huge quantities of "Bohemian" garnet, popular in the jewelry of the late 19th century.

Pyrope garnet - A deep red mineral, similar in appearance to ruby
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Pyrope Pyrope is similar to Almandine, but is lighter in color and brighter, even though it is translucent. It is often mistaken for ruby.

Pyrope Garnet: A poppy or blood-red colored garnet composed of alumina magnesia. It is used as a gem. Sometimes called an "American Ruby", "Australian Ruby", "Arizona Ruby", or "Bohemian garnet". See also Rhodolite.

Pyrope garnet
Hear the word “garnet,' and what invariably comes to mind is the image of the deep red pyrope garnets belonging to the pyralspites family. Pyrope comes from the Greek word pyropos, meaning “fiery eyed.' ...

Pyrope Garnet is the deep red color of garnet.
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Pyrope: The most popular and frequently seen variety of garnet. Transparent, dark red hue may be confused with a dark ruby.

PYROPE GARNET
Pyrope garnet is the familiar deep red garnet. Red garnet is the birthstone for January. Garnet has a hardness of 6-8 and a specific gravity of 3.5 - 4.3. The formula for garnet is: A3B2(SiO4)3.

Pyrope
Of Greek origin meaning "fiery." Pyrope is part of the Garnet group, Hardness 7-7.5, S.G. 3.65-3.80, R.I. 1.730-1.760.
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Pyrope, from the Latin pyropos, means similar to fire. It is red in color and chemically a magnesium aluminium silicate with the formula Mg3Al2(SiO4)3, though the magnesium can be replaced in part by calcium and ferrous iron.

Pyrope is a transparent, dark - red garnet and the only member of the garnet family to always display red coloration in natural samples.

Pyrope: Mg3Al2(SO4)3 (magnesium aluminum silicate)
Almandine: Fe3Al2(SiO4)3 (iron aluminum silicate)
Spessartine: Mn3Al2 (SiO4)3 (manganese aluminium silicate)
Grossular: Ca3Al2(SiO4)3 (calcium aluminum silicate) ...

Pyrope garnets are purplish red, orangy red, crimson, or dark red. Spessartite garnets range from yellow and orange through red to reddish brown to dark black/brown.

Pyrope, Almandine, Andradite, Spessartine, Grossularite, Uvarovite
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Pyrope is a fiery red garnet, but it too may suffer from being too dark. Large stones are often available but it is not one of the more highly priced gems.

Pyrope-spessartite mixed garnets containing vanadium have been found that display a dramatic green (daylight) to red (incandescent light) change of color. Such stones come from East Africa and Sri Lanka.
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PYROPE
Pyrope Garnets (also known as Bohemian Garnets due to their copious mining in the former kingdom of Bohemia) are blood red in colour and often resemble Ruby. This fiery stone is often found inclusion free.

Pyrope is a variety of garnet. It usually exhibits a blood-red color but can also be tinged with yellow or purple. On Mohs' scale of hardness, pyrope ranks 7 to 7.5.

"Pyrope"
Dark red (blackish-red) Mg-rich garnet; most contain a component of almandine.
"Bohemian" garnets, popular in late 1800's are "pyrope". Are found in conglomerates, volcanic breccia, tuffs and alluvial deposits.

The pyrope garnet has a deep red color with a tint of purple. They are also a brownish red color (similar to the almandite variety.) The elements for coloring a pyrope garnet is magnesium-aluminium.

The pyrope from here is often referred to as "Elie Ruby".
It is a titanium-rich variety formed in ultrabasic rocks originating deep in the earth's mantle. Most grains/ megacrysts are now weathered out of their matrix.
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7 1/4.- Pyrope garnet (Arizona ruby, cape ruby), hessonite garnet (cinnamon stone), tourmaline (various colors vary from 7 to 7 1/2), kunzite (7+)
7.- Amethyst, various quartz gems, quartz "topaz," jade (jadeite).

Fine-quality pyrope garnets from Czechoslovakia are often called Bohemian garnets.

A variety of pyrope garnet ranging in color from rose-red to pale violet.
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Almandine and pyrope (and a mix of the two) are the most common types of garnet on the market. Their widespread availability makes them extremely affordable (under $40 a carat).

Other names/forms:
Pyrope, Grossular, Almandine
Most distinguishing features:
Crystal habit, colour and hardness.

Bohemian Garnet: A pyrope garnet very deep red in color that was used in many pieces of Victorian jewelry. They are said to have curative powers. Named for the region in which it was found.
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American RubyAn American ruby is actually a pyrope garnet (and not a ruby at all). AmethystA form of quartz in shades of purple ranging from light lavender to deep, intense purple with subtle flashes of red.

Some garnets used as gemstones include pyrope (the deep red garnet), almandine, spessartine, grossular, the iron-aluminum dark red garnet (also known as the carbuncle stone), Uvarovite (rare), ...

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Not only do garnets have many colours; they also have many names: almandine, andradite, demantoid, grossularite, hessonite, pyrope, rhodolite, tsavorite, spessartine, and uvarovite, to quote but a few.

iolite, rose quartz, smoky quartz, lemon quartz, amethyst, pyrope garnet, peridot and aquamarine]. I placed my order on a Monday morning and the gems arrived the following Saturday. All the gems were there and were what I ordered.

-- Several alluvial deposits of almandite-pyrope garnet are located on the drainages of the Ruby River in Madison County. One such deposit, the Alder Gulch deposit, is in the alluvial fan formed where Alder Gulch joins the Ruby River Valley.

The most typical images of a garnet are those associated with pyrope and almandine garnets, which are red. Pyropes have a deep, blood red colour with a brown tinge and were much sought after in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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.

Most varieties occur in red, including pyrope, almandine, and spessartine. Andradite garnets occur in green, yellow, orange and black.

American Ruby: See pyrope garnet.
Amethyst: Semi-precious gemstone. A common form of quartz.

Pyrope is blood red. Rhodolite, one of the most popular varieties, ranges from pink to purplish red and is mined in Africa, India and Sri Lanka. Malaya, a mixed variety found in Tanzania and Kenya, ranges from orange to gold.

A group stones that share a similar chemical structure, the garnet family includes pyrope, almandine, and demantoid, among others.

For example, let's compare an aquamarine and a pyrope garnet each of tone 6. Objectively, each is exactly the same, but that depth of color is about the deepest that will ever be found for aquamarine and the about lightest possible for any pyrope.

However, the color, red is most saturated in small pyrope garnets, which are also known as anthill stones as they are mined by the ants at the time of their home making by digging out the earth.

It is a combination of almandine and pyrope (it is sometimes called pyrope-almandine garnet). This silicate stone has a hardness of 7-7.5 and a specific gravity of 3.5 - 4.3. The formula for garnet is: A3B2(SiO4)3.

Australian Ruby: See pyrope garnet.
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Rhodolite (meaning rose stone in Greek) is a purple-red to pink-red variety of garnet and is a combination of almandine and pyrope (it is sometimes called pyrope-almandine garnet). This silicate stone has a hardness of 7-7.

There are six species of garnet - almandine (wine red), pyrope (brownish to orange red), spessartine (orange brown to golden brown - root beer color), andradite (yellowish brown to green), grossular (colorless to green, including yellow, ...

Not to be confused with the ubiquitous Pyrope dark red garnet usually associated with much estate jewelry, this gorgeous purple, pink red garnet is a beautiful gemstone.

Rhodolite is actually a pyrope, but has been given a name of its own because of its distinctive rose-red color. Pyrope belongs to the garnet group and was a fashionable stone in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Rhodolite: A rose-red to pale violet variety of pyrope garnet.
Rhodonite: a glassy, opaque, pink to rose-red mineral, often with black inclusions, composed of crystalline manganese silicate. Named after the Greek word "rhodon" meaning "rose".

An Elie ruby is actually a pyrope garnet (and not a ruby at all).
EMBOSS
Embossing is a method of surface decoration in which a design is raised slightly above the surface. Sheets of metal, leather, and plastic can be embossed.

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In fact garnet is a group of six closely related minerals: almandine, pyrope, grossular, spessartite, andradite, and uvarovite. In practice many garnets contain a mixture of two or more of these varieties.

American Ruby
American Ruby is actually a pyrope garnet, which makes it less expensive than a ruby.
Amethyst
Amethyst is a quartz that varies from transparent deep purple to violet, the deeper the color the higher the value of the gemstone.

Bohemian Garnet
Term for the red pyrope garnet found in much Victorian and turn of the century jewelry.
Bohemain Ruby
A Bohemian ruby is actually a pyrope garnet (and not a ruby at all).

Varieties of garnet available include almandine, pyrope and rhodolite, and, as a general rule, the lighter in tone, the more expensive the stone.
The cut is important, as with all transparent stones.

Garnet Stones are available in varieties named Grossularite, Pyrope, Almandine, Rhodalite, Andradite, Essonite, Tsavorite, Spessartite, Melanite, Allochroite, Ouvarovite and Demantoid.

See also: Garnet, Stone, Color, Gemstone, Mineral