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 Post subject: Re: Morganite
PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 6:52 am 
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Pink Emerald prices are now at around $450 per carat for some of the smaller stones (<3 carats) in lighter colors, and range to upwards of $10,000 per carat for large stones with rich color.

Oh Great Voyager from the Future, tell us more about that terrifying hyperinflation! :smt043


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 Post subject: Re: Morganite
PostPosted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:24 am 
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Pyrope (bright red to dark brick-red), Rhodolite (pinkish-red), Almandine (deep violet-red), Spessartite (orange-pink to orange-red with brownish yellow), Spessartine (midway between almondine and spessartite), Hessonite (honey-yellow to yellow-brown), Grossularite (light yellowish-green to strong bluish-green), and Anaradite (honey-yellow=trapazolite, green=demantoid, blackish-red to black=melanite).


In case you ever wanted to know the difference between spessartite and spessartine.

I always had it down to the fact that Yanks can't spell :?


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 Post subject: Re: Morganite
PostPosted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:48 am 
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Pyrope (bright red to dark brick-red), Rhodolite (pinkish-red), Almandine (deep violet-red), Spessartite (orange-pink to orange-red with brownish yellow), Spessartine (midway between almondine and spessartite), Hessonite (honey-yellow to yellow-brown), Grossularite (light yellowish-green to strong bluish-green), and Anaradite (honey-yellow=trapazolite, green=demantoid, blackish-red to black=melanite).


In case you ever wanted to know the difference between spessartite and spessartine.

I always had it down to the fact that Yanks can't spell :?


Where did you find that gem? :lol: I thnk we deserve to be told :wink:


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 Post subject: Re: Morganite
PostPosted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:42 am 
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Superb!

I'd like a look at that 'trapazolite'....


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 Post subject: Re: Morganite
PostPosted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:30 pm 
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Kyriakin wrote:
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Pyrope (bright red to dark brick-red), Rhodolite (pinkish-red), Almandine (deep violet-red), Spessartite (orange-pink to orange-red with brownish yellow), Spessartine (midway between almondine and spessartite), Hessonite (honey-yellow to yellow-brown), Grossularite (light yellowish-green to strong bluish-green), and Anaradite (honey-yellow=trapazolite, green=demantoid, blackish-red to black=melanite).


In case you ever wanted to know the difference between spessartite and spessartine.

I always had it down to the fact that Yanks can't spell :?


What's the source for that brilliant insight?...... #-o not.


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 Post subject: Re: Morganite
PostPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 5:34 am 
Barbra Voltaire wrote:
Kyriakin wrote:
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Pyrope (bright red to dark brick-red), Rhodolite (pinkish-red), Almandine (deep violet-red), Spessartite (orange-pink to orange-red with brownish yellow), Spessartine (midway between almondine and spessartite), Hessonite (honey-yellow to yellow-brown), Grossularite (light yellowish-green to strong bluish-green), and Anaradite (honey-yellow=trapazolite, green=demantoid, blackish-red to black=melanite).


In case you ever wanted to know the difference between spessartite and spessartine.

I always had it down to the fact that Yanks can't spell :?


What's the source for that brilliant insight?...... #-o not.


The insight about the spess, or about the Yanks? ;)

It was deep in that awesomegems website. However, when you type sections of the above garnet descriptions into Google, loads of crappy Thailand-based retail websites come up. It seems they were all drawing on the same very unreliable teat.


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 Post subject: Re: Morganite
PostPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 11:50 am 
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Thanks, Simon....that's is awesome alright.

Just to clarify, green means we are being sarcastic.


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 Post subject: Re: Morganite
PostPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:58 pm 
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Thanks, Simon....that's is awesome alright.

Just to clarify, green means we are being sarcastic.

[colour=sarcasticidocrase]Oh... really?[colour=sarcasticidocrase]

Anyway, as for the nomenclature, in the back of my mind I was sure the difference between 'spessartite' and 'spessartine' was that the former was the official US-spelling, and the latter was the rest of the world. However, I can't find anything online about this, so I must have just imagined it.


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