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I purchased these pretty little garnets several years ago as spessartine. They certainly have high spessartine content but have a pinkish/brown tinge indicating substantial presence of other garnet species.
I'm wondering if anyone recognizes the source for these little crystals? They seem to be uniformly rather small, about 4 to 5.5 mm. on average and will cut bright little rounds.
Source anyone?
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Joined: Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:20 am Posts: 2756 Location: Southern California, U.S.A.
Stephen Challener wrote:
I saw some similar ones for sale once, said to be from Oyo, Nigeria. Looks like great stuff. Wonder what's moxed in--pyrope? Grossular?
I think Oyo is correct. The source was identified once and I forgot to label the baggie. Can't be sure of the garnet mix but my guess would be pyrope-almandine which would account for the pinkish-brown hue. I could be wildly wrong. But I think they'll yield small but nice gems.
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