Enhancements
Spessartine garnet is not enhanced.
More information on gemstone enhancements.
Spessartine Garnet ...
Spessartine Garnet
Spessartine Garnet is a garnet that is orange in color.
Spiral
Spiral is a type of body jewelry that is in the shape of a spiral and has two balls on both ends.
Spessartine garnets can be found at several locations in White Pine County. Most of the dark brown crystals are of interest only as specimen, but a few will cut very small clear stones.
Spessartine garnets, also called spessartite, are orange to dark brownish orange in color; most could be described as a "root beer" color. The finest stones will be a brighter orange color which is not too brown.
Mandarin, tangerine & spessartine garnet
Mandarin and tangerine garnets are the intensely bright color varieties of the rare orange red spessartine garnet, also known as spessartite.
Different levels of clarity are visible here in these spessartine garnets from Nigeria. The oval stone at left is eye clean, i.e., with no clarity defects visible to the unaided eye.
Spessartine Garnets, also known as Spessartite, are the orange to red orange variety, often referred to as "root beer" colored Garnets. Due to its ideochromatic nature, spessartite is always some shade of orange.
In almandine and pyrope large stones of 40-50 carats are available, but gems exceeding 20 carats are usually not cut due to dark color saturation. In grossular and spessartine garnet stones over 10 carats are rare.
 See also: Color, Garnet, Stone, Cut, Crystal
  
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