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Fast Facts
| Malum granatum, Latin for garnet, refers to red pomegranate seeds. |
| Found in many parts of the world and in a wide range of colors, garnet is a popular and exciting gemstone family. |
 Spessartite is a rare garnet ranging from a yellowish-orange to an intense fiery orange known as mandarin garnet. |
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Spessartite is a brilliant transparent gemstone. The colors of spessartite garnets can range from a bright vibrant orange to a deep red-orange color, and even some brownish and greenish oranges. Spessartite was once just a collector's gem but moved into mainstream gemology in the 1990s. Spessartite is 6.5 to 7.5 on the Mohs' scale of hardness and, like all garnet, is untreated, so the beautiful color that you see is strictly as nature created it.
Color
Spessartite is a brilliant transparent gemstone, exhibiting a range of colors from yellow to brown to green and even reddish.
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| Learn more about this and other gemstones, by reading one of the many fine gemstone books available from Jewelry Television®.td>
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