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Tuesday 25 March 2014

Gemstone Meanings: Garnet

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES

The garnet species is found in many colours including pink, orange, yellow, green, purple, brown and black.  The most common being a deep red colour.   The rarest is the blue, which was discovered in the late 1990's in Madagascar.  This is a very interesting specimen of garnet as it changes colour from a blue-green in sunlight to a purple-red in incandescent light.

Blue garnet in natural light









Under incandescent light.



















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