Orange Garnet 8mm Faceted Rondelle - 8-InchOrange or Hessonite Garnet is sometimes called Cinnamon Stone for its orange to orange to brown color as well as for its origin in the land of spices, Sri Lanka. Its color is due to the presence of Manganese and Iron in the stone. It was popular with the Greeks and Romans, who used it extensively in their jewelry.

It was used in the Egyptian Book of the Dead

olive green and gray to green

Although most people think of diamonds as colorless

Originally discovered in the 1940’s and not introduced commercially until 1978

Strand Length: 16 Inches

it occurs in a wide variety of patterns

with darker shades being higher in value

as well as translucent and iridescent

however it does exhibit a lustrous sheen referred to as “opalescence

The first rough material was offered for sale in Tucson in 2011 and is now regularly mined at the remote deposit site in Sonora

Lavender Amethyst is a transparent lavender variety of Amethyst

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