Nice cc garnets! Do you know the location they're from?
I have a couple of Bekily cc garnets, and a small handful of different sort of cc garnet from Tanzania. I find the Tanzanian stones go more from yellowish green to red, but the occasional one that goes greyish blue to red.
I haven't cut many of them and this thread just reminded me I should!
Thanks for sharing
-Allan
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Nice cc garnets! Do you know the location they're from?
I have a couple of Bekily cc garnets, and a small handful of different sort of cc garnet from Tanzania. I find the Tanzanian stones go more from yellowish green to red, but the occasional one that goes greyish blue to red.
I haven't cut many of them and this thread just reminded me I should!
Thanks for sharing
-Allan
Thanks Allan, seller stated Madagascar.
I agree about the Tanzanian garnets, theres a lot of the greenish yellow to red coming out of the area for the last decade.
Barbra, Id be happy to send a small one to you at no charge They are very small so be warned ! Please PM me the address you want it sent to and Ill send it by snail mail as before
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The wondrous gem has arrived. When Raj said it would be small, I was expecting a 3 pointer. This gem is beautifully cut and weighs in at a whopping 0.35 carat.
I took these color change shots with an incandescent Kruss fiberoptic cable and a System Eichkorst Daylight USB LED pin-pointer fiberoptic:
GemmoRaman Scan: Pyralspite
The inclusions I noticed were rutile needles, in two directions with a 70º intersection, a planer circular liquid veil and some xls, I couldn't identify. Please feel free to share your opinion of what they may be.
Not posted in a long time but a client in Switzerland performed an EPMA analysis on this material so I thought I'd add it here to add to the information
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