Tsavorite Garnet
The shining green tsavorite is a young gemstone with a very long geological history. Its home is the East-African bushland along the border between Kenya and Tanzania.
Tsavorite garnet
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Tsavorite garnet is a rare gemstone. Most pieces are below two carats and pieces over three carats demand high prices.
Tsavorite Garnet
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Tsavorite Garnet
Tsavorite, or transparent, green grossular garnet, was discovered in Kenya in the 1960's and given its trade name by Tiffany marketers based on the proximity of Tsavo National Park to the mine sites.
Tsavorite garnet
For some the sixties swung, for gemologists they rocked.
Tsavorite garnet has more than tripled in price since its introduction to the marketplace, but at current price levels it still sells at a tenth or less of the price of emerald of comparable quality.
(Tsavorite Garnet. Photo by ICA/Bart Curren)
The most expensive and popular of the grossular garnets is tsavorite which was named after Tsavo National Park on the border of Kenya and Tanzania, where it is mined.
You may be surprised to learn that garnets are found in every color except blue, including brilliant green tsavorite garnet, raspberry pink rhodolite garnet, and orange malaya garnet. Bright red "anthill" garnets are found in Arizona.
Several gem species and varieties discussed in Part II of this book are fairly recent discoveries: tsavorite garnet, tanzanite, and malaya garnet were completely unknown just fifty years ago.
South Africa, Tanzania and Kenya has also been a source of the emerald clear green tsavorite garnet. Discovered in 1968, in the Tsavo National Park in Kenya, the Tsavorite was promoted and used extensively by Tiffanys. Tsavorite garnets are rare.
Demantoid may be confused with tsavorite garnet, peridot, emerald, diopside and tourmaline
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Demantoids can be heated to improve their color
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Emerald is, of course, is the most valuable and popular green gem. Tsavorite garnet and chrome tourmaline also have a rich green color but they are increasingly difficult to find and have appreciated in value as a result.
Chrome Tourmaline is colored by chromium resulting in a beautiful green stone that is often confused with emerald or the tsavorite garnet. Indicolite is a dark blueish black stone.
Garnets are found in every color except blue, including brilliant green tsavorite garnet, raspberry pink rhodolite garnet, and orange malaya garnet.
relatively inexpensive, with the exception of tsavorite garnets and demantoids,
which rival emeralds for color and clarity and can cost well over $1000 per
carat. In general though, good quality garnets are affordable for nearly ...
This heart is the centerpiece of a necklace made of 58.77 carats of smaller black diamonds, 378 white diamonds and 14.10 carats of tsavorite garnets, set in white gold.
The mint-colored garnet material is difficult to find in fine, crystalline form, and its size is always relatively small. It is often considered a softer companion to its big and more well known relative, Tsavorite garnet.
One can easily find low quality diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and emeralds that are worth pennies per carat, and so-called "semiprecious" stones such as garnet and tourmaline can easily be worth thousands of dollars per carat (as in tsavorite garnet ...
It is set in a tiara and accented with 803 brilliant cut tsavorite garnets and 913 brilliant cut diamonds. The tiara is currently on display in the Gallery of Gold and Gems at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
 See also: Tsavorite, Garnet, Stone, Color, Gemstone
  
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