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Pyrope garnet

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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.

 


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 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 garnet - A deep red mineral, similar in appearance to ruby
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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 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 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 Garnet is the deep red color of garnet. ^top
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Quartz is a crystalline mineral that occurs in two varieties: macrocrystalline where crystals recognizable with the naked eye and microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline where crystals too small ...

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.

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.

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).

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.

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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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.

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.

can overlap with pyrope garnet; can be distinguished in these cases by fluorescence and careful study of inclusions.
From synthetic spinel by R.I., S.G., fluorescence and inclusions. Synthetic spinel has an R.I. of about 1.727 and an S.G. of 3.63-3.

Pyrope garnet, also prevalent on the market, is usually blood red; finer gems may resemble ruby. Andradite garnet is found in yellow, green, or brown.

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

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.

Australian Ruby: See pyrope garnet.
Austrian crystal: Trade name for lead crystal cut with precise edges and angles at the Swarovski factory, located in Wattens in the Austrian Tyrols, ...

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".

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.

Rhodolite - A variety of pyrope garnet ranging in colour from rose-red to pale violet
Rhodonite - From the Greek word for pink. A reddish gem with thin veins or patches of grey-black. Found in the former Soviet Union, USA, India and Australia ...

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.

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).

NEW!!: Bright red, untreated, Pyrope Garnets in antique and modern jewelry. 600 Years of Garnet Production in Bohemia, Czech Republic.
Garnet localities in USA
North Carolina Garnets (Kunz) ...

Mention should be made of the pyrope garnet found at Elie Ness. Now very rare, grains have fairly recently been found and later faceted.

The Pyrope Garnet figured in the ancient Talmudic legend which held that the only light in Noah's Ark was supplied by an enormous red Garnet. The connection with fire remained strong with the Romans, too.

A California ruby is actually a pyrope garnet (and not a ruby at all).
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A Bohemian ruby is actually a pyrope garnet (and not a ruby at all).
BOLT RING ...

July-Aug. 1934, Unusual Garnets, p. 125, 2pp.
Summer 1945, Absorption Spectra of Pyrope Garnet, by Anderson, p. 232, 2pp.
Fall 1945, p. 257, 2pp. #3: Spring 1946, p. 301, 3pp.

On Mohs' scale of hardness, pyrope ranks 7 to 7.5. It has a vitreous luster, and primary pyrope garnet sources include Burma (Myanmar), China, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Tanzania, and the United States (Arizona).

Pyrope Garnet is the common purplish red Garnet which comes primarily from Australia and Czechoslovakia. Spessartite, also a common type of Garnet, is the yellowish orange to reddish orange color and Rhodolite is the pink member of the Garnet family.

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. Arizona "ant hill rubies" are actually pyrope garnets.

See also: Pyrope, Garnet, Stone, Color, Jewel