What Is an Orange Garnet?
Orange garnet is a gemstone. Garnet comes in a wide variety of color variations, according to Minerals.net, and orange is one of the more common ones. Does this Spark an idea?
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Garnet
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Garnet is not a single mineral but a group of minerals that share a number of physical and chemical properties, according to Minerals.net. There are three garnet minerals that can be found in orange.
Spessartine
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Natural spessartine is orange, though impurities typically make it more red or brown. Spessartine is not common and usually is not of transparent gem quality.
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Grossular
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Grossular has the most variety of colors of any of the garnet minerals. Orange is one of the two most common colors of gems that are cut from grossular; green is the other. This variety of orange garnet is also known as hessonite, essonite or cinnamon stone.
Andradite
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Orange is one of the colors found in andradite, though it is not usually in crystals large enough to be worth faceting.
Similar Gemstones
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According to Minerals.net, orange garnet has a similar appearance to several other gems and can easily be mistaken for them. Those gems include topaz, chrysoberyl, golden beryl, zircon, citrine and spinel.
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