The name "garnets" is quite universal in sense, that it is applied to a range of related minerals .. Almandine, spessartine, pyrope, Grossular, Andradite ... There are more, for ex. Uvarovite and several other minerals of the garnet family which don't form large crystals and are unknown from the jewelry and gemological point of view. In the jewelery to a different varieties of garnet were attached trade or historical names, which came into use so deep, that gemologists took these names as gemological terms. An important detail - like mineral species, no one garnet stone variaty, practically doesn't existe in its pure form in nature! Any garnet is always a composition of at least two, and often - more species of minerals, ruby ring in white gold. Contrary to popular opinion - pyrope garnets are one of the most rare gemstones in the world. They are known because of their deposits in Czech Republic from ancient times, the Czech pyrope garnets are wery rare gems, that for a long time were available only for wealthy nobles. But in our days become almost inaccessible to anyone! Because Garnets deposits in the Czech Republic have been exhausted, its extraction is almost stoped and garnet stones and jewelry in numerous jewelry shops in Prague are Synthetic .. Natural pyrope garnets only in extremely rare cases are larger than 1 carat, and are almost inavailable even for the richest people, and cost more than ruby diamond rings. In the U.S., there is a place which is called the 4 Corners, if you drive down the road you will find two small towns Kayenta and Garnet Ridge. Immediately after the last town starts "prohibited places" - the territory of the Navajo Indian Reservation. Almost the whole area of Reservation are rocky semi-desert .. and everywhere you can see sometimes low, sometimes up to 3 meters tall anthills .. After each heavy rain, which in this area of Arizona is rare, hundreds of people come around anthills, and begin to carefully examine their surface. To find Anthill (Ant Hill) Garnet Anthill Garnets according to mineralogy terms are chrome-pyrope, according to gemology terms - a rare, red variety of garnet, characterized unfortunately by its small size of crystals. Stones weighing more than 1 carat are rare, more than 1.5 carats - are extremely rare. Some of the samples (about 50%) of Anthill Garnet didn't have in their color shade of brown, what is very much appreciated in the jewelry market According to the Anthill Garnet's chemical composition, they are not much different from the chrome-pyrope (garnets) found in other parts of the world, only by a little more highest concentrations of chromium, which makes a half of them have exceptional red ruby color, ruby diamond rings. These garnets are very popular both among jewelers as well among collectors.. But the receipt of such garnets on the market is very unpredictable.
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