Can I just say, that as a gem enthusiast this channel has enriched my knowledge of gemstones and minerals so much, it makes me very thankful to live in this day and age. You people bring an incredible quality of knowledge to youtube, it's almost mind blowing to think I don't have to pay for it. Thank you people so much.
As a January baby, my grandma gave me her mother's garnet and diamond ring for my 18th birthday. It's still my favorite piece of jewelry. Very dark red color
Wow, a stunning array of Garnets there, all of them with their own geological story. Personally I found the Garnet family the most difficult species of gemstone to ever to study. 🤯
Deep fan of almandine garnet here. I did my PhD in a gold mine that has a garnet-biotite schist that looks a lot like the graphite-dravite-garnet you showed.
Demantoid garnet is easily my favorite garnet-not only for the dispersion, but it just so happens my fave color is inch worm green, & demantoids seem to have a more yellow hued green, vs the also gorgeous tsavorite
My engagement ring is an oval shaped rhodolite garnet from North Carolina. In sunlight it looks more red to me and in electric lights it looks more purple. It's fun to see how it changes and always looks interesting and beautiful
Aside from tourmaline, garnet is my largest collection! I absolutely love it, especially tsavorite and Rhodolite! Both have amazing colors, plus garnet crystals are just so cool! I have a small spessartine cluster in my collection that exhibits the crystal structure very well! Definitely a big favorite, awesome video! 💎 I got super lucky to purchase a very very tiny Demantoid, i absolutely love Demantoids fire! If I HAD to choose a favorite, I’d go with Rhodolite with intense purple shades
Great video. I wish it was longer and included the rare Masasi blues, Mali, Malaia, colorless, and color shift garnets. I have a bunch of q's. Are all garnets magnetic? If it's only the spessartine, ignoring clarity as an identifying feature, is it possible to isolate spessartines from pale orange hessonites using a magnet? Is it possible to sight-id a tsavorite vs. green demantoid if there's no horsetail clue? Could a magnet assist? For future videos, I'd like to see one about magnetic gemstones. Thanks and congrats if you made it through the entirety of my comment. LOL.
Oh my gosh! So my birthstone is a garnet. And I have always been put off by the deep “poop red” as I liked to call it when I was younger. I can’t believe I didn’t know about all of the different colors there are!! I am so excited with this new information thank you guys!!!
Thank you for the video. I am new to gems, but I am discovering that garnets are quickly becoming a favorite. I got a beautiful colored 30 carat Hessonite that I think is one of the prettiest garnets I have ever seen. I also just recently got my first two samples of tsavorite garnet and I am in love with the rich green. I would like to get a demantoid garnet for my collection someday.
Just bought a pair of vintage earring studs in 18k on ebay with 8mm round purple rhodolite, can't wait to see them!!! Love garnets. Have a pair of 10mm round earrings in mandarin garnet, that is what I was told anyway, when I bought them about 20 years ago...beautiful orange orange, not yellowish, brownish, or too red. Nice video, subscribing!
I live in Ga. An I know nothing about gem stones, but my grandson an I picked up many of old looking rocks that had red stones just basically fall off by picking it with your finger nail. Dark red and more like crystals from their shapes. Over the years we had a plastic lunch bag with around two hundred of the stones. I just figured they were garnets since garnets aren't rare. You'll be amazed at what you can find when walking .
I can agree with dudes pic 4 closer look!!!! Just beautiful and very rare!!!! And I'm a huge fan of all things iridescent so I didn't even know Garnet could make iridescence so that's just incredible to me!!!!! I see that Garnet surrounded by perfectly cut white topaz on thin platinum band . Maybe with 2 tiny Marquee cut teal sapphires on the very sides of the band!!!!!!!! And I pick surrounded by white topaz because I don't want anything too shiny take away from the iridescence of that amazing two in one garnet!!!!! And the band because it needs to be thin but strong enough to protect softer Stones has to be made in Platinum but I don't want it held with claws more like the rounded almost beaded prongs!!!!!!
I have some stones that looks like a garnets .the color ranges from purplish red ,mandarin red and orange red. The color depends on where it is viewed and the light used.
Love the rhodolite and anthill, but have recently added to earring collection color changing garnet! Looked it up, and indeed appears to be variety of garnet.
I'm a January baby and I love that garnet is my birthstone! It's such a fascinating mineral with such variety in both colour and chemistry!! I loved learning about their solid solution series in my geo science studies!! But I actually learned something new today, garnets are magnetic?! That's so cool!
You actually made me love my birthstone. I'm not usually into these things but I had to check our your channel coz one of my best friends loves gems so much. All these facts are so fascinating even to a non-enthusiast. Gonna sub for more interesting info.
I love this channel. I have been prospecting and treasur hunting, but recently started getting into rocks and gems. I have been finding a lot of levitright (leave it right there). Thanks for the great content.
Stunning, I like them all. Such incredible array of Garnet, never know this before, enjoy the video so much and thank you. I’m also a January baby so my fav stone is Garnet.😊
It is strange that Spessartine doesnt have iron or any magnetic element in it but is absorbed to magnet. I have lots of very rare Iranian Andradite, Topazolite and Demantoid including a magnificent 0.7kg+ killer Androdite specimen from a mine that isn't being mined (someone went in and took a few things). Let me know if you are interested, I can send photos.
So happy I found this channel today, do you guys have any videos on sunstones? I’m superrrr interested in learning more about Oregonian sunstones since they have copper imbedded into them unlike other sunstones in the world! Thanks!!
Yayzies! Garnets! Demantoid is by far and away my absolute favorite gemstone. I bought a pair of Green Dragon Mine Octavia?? Cut??? Maybe the cut is called something close. I forget. But they were from Jtv. I also bought a pair of 40pt each GDM round brilliant cuts and white gold posts to set them in. 7 years later.... which was 2017, a couple years back I had taken them out and set them on my ottoman before I fell asleep on my sofa with my adorbs schnauzer. When I woke up one was gone, and she looked guilty AF. Never did find it. Happy New year to ya'll. BTW...... My whole body hangs from your cheekbones gurl. Like for real. Gorge☺🥳
January baby here..my fav garnets are the Spessartite/Pyrope blue colour changers (Tanzanian material) ...and the colourless grossulars that tend to sparkle like diamonds..and star garnets....none of which were shown in this video, but great video nevertheless!
I remember growing up being so disappointed in how “bland” my birthstone was but it’s so complex! So glad I ran into the video. Now I have a different appreciation for garnets.
When I heard you guys say that Spessartine garnets are magnetic I had to go find the big garnet crystal I mined at the old Ruggles mine in NH...and it was magnetic! I learned sumpin! Kewl!
One day in fields we have a giant lake it’s very spiky and once I found a spinel it was nearly 2cm wide but it was really pretty I keep it in a fancy box under my bed
Great channel for students. Got hooked on your channel after taking mineralogy and getting the bug for it. Definitely feel like I'm getting an edge for petrology later :)
Oh wow fantastic video fantastic presentation will all these gems specially of one family fantastic knowledge which is awesome now your picks at the end the bigger one is so cool to me. But I have to say both when looked at close look like piece’s of space frozen in time. Awesome thank u
I've always loved garnets, one of my prize possessions is a star garnet (6 carats) in a gold ring setting, it is a deep red, I think it is a Pyrope. I have other garnets too. You guys are great but you never mention any of the "mystical" lapidary secrets...garnet is the "old maid's stone" because of it's use in Victorian mourning jewelry, it was said to put iron in the spine of a spinster! Garnet is one of the 3 "bloodstones", the Romans would set them in the hilts of swords to staunch the blood of wounds, Garnet was said to give courage and inspire valor. The AngloSaxon sword of Redewulf found at Sutton Hoo has a hilt set with garnets. This is part of the ancient lore of stones, wear a garnet and take courage! By the way the other 2 bloodstones are Hematite (it "bleeds" when you grind it) and the green jasper known as "Bloodstone" with the inclusions of red jasper redolent of the "Blood of Christ". You guys should mention the ancient lore of stones occasionally, you know folks are curious about the alleged magical powers of gemstones...there is a wealth of information to talk about there.
Start an argument with on sentence Hydrogrossular shouldn't really even be considered a garnet. Now that I got that out of my system.🙂 I'm stuck torn between spessartine and pyrope when it comes to picking a favourite garnet, usually I prefer to collect spessartines, yet, I can't ignore how brilliantly clean and simultaneously pale some pyrope can be. Decisions like these that are made even more difficult when isomorphism is considered... If I just pick the pyralspite group I'm pretty sure my favourite is somewhere in there🙄
Thank you! One of the easiest ways to separate garnet and zircon actually only requires a 10x loupe. Zircon is very strongly doubly refractive, so upon examination at the proper angles, the facet edges can appear to double (the stone can often generally look blurry under magnification). Garnet is singly refractive so there is no doubling. Let us know if you need any other tips!
