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  daylight/flourescent incandescent watch this stone change color in front of your eyes... |
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| colors
available: |
under flourescent light/daylight: blue blue-green teal green-grey grey under incandescent light: red pink purple violet-purple purple-red |
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| family/species: |
garnet, pyrope-spessartite with grossularite and/or pyrope-spessartite with almandine | |
| properties: |
RI=approx 1.76 (varies) SR SG=3.78+ (varies) dispersion=0.024+ (varies) hardness=7-7.5 note: suitable for use in jewelry |
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| treatments: |
none |
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| important
information |
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100% natural garnet which has
no known treatments or
enhancements very rare available in limited quantities |
| cuts: |
all standard cuts and free sizes |
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| rough: |
available in clean
material to
cut sizes 2mm and under; bigger pieces occasionally available - please
contact us for current stock |
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| mining: |
found in kenya (taita-taveta) and tanzania (umba valley, tunduru) view photo gallery | |
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