Spessartite from California

[Eu_citzen]

Just finished a quite rare beauty! 1.53 cts spessartite from Calif.

 

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[CA_Vermonster]

Very nice!

 

[605dano]

Congrats, very unusual color. Are garnets valued more by the three C's or by type.

 

[Eu_citzen]

Thanks!

Dano, both! Garnet is a whole "mineral family" if you like, so type is also important. Spessartite is one variety. Then the three C's are also taken into account.

 

[mamabear]

Do you have a before picture?

 

[Eu_citzen]

I don't. This was cut from rough material.

 

[curious kat]

...another very nice job & lovely stone, haven't heard of it before. Speaking of rare stones...ever heard of "Zultanite"? It has different colors in it, guess it's sort of new? Saw a Gem Hunter show about it yesterday.

 

[Eu_citzen]

Thanks CC! Zultanite has been around for a long time! It's just a new trade name for colour changing* diaspore. (2005-ish it was introduced)
Also been called Csarite. Those shows tend to be full of ****. Take them with a ¤!/#load of salt!

*Colour change means it changes colour if natural vs incandescent light. Some of the most rare garnets also do this.

 

[curious kat]

Thank you Eu for the info. on the Zultanite....yes guess a lot of those shows are ...lol Really, garnets that change color, didn't you show one of those before?

 

[JLeonhardy]

I saw that episode of gem hunter and I cringed every time he used his hand pick to extract a fatty. Didn't look to me like the guy knew a darn thing about crystal extraction -- mallets, chisels and teeny tiny screw drivers, fella!

 

[JLeonhardy]

Oh - beauty of a cut, EU!