garnet

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Garnet is the gemstone of fidelity, passion, strength, courage, friendship, trust, loyalty, vitality, reunion, perseverance, hope, meditation, romance, joy, birth, creation, and evolution.

Garnet is the gemstone of January, is beneficial to the Root chakra, and is primarily dedicated to the zodiac sign Aquarius. 

Garnet is traditionally gifted for the 2nd and 18th anniversary. 

As garnet comes in a wide range of varieties, it also displays a wide range of colors, including red, green, yellow, purple, brown, and orange. The most coveted colors are highly saturated and vivid reds and greens.

• Pyrope: deep red, resembling ruby or pomegranate
• Almandine: dark red with purple, reddish-orange, or reddish-brown tints
• Spessartine: vibrant orange, reddish-orange, yellowish-orange
• Andradite: rich green, yellow-green (occasionally black, brown, brownish-red, or gray)
• Grossular: fresh mint green, gray-green, intense vibrant green, sometimes yellow, pinkish-rose, orange, or orangey-brown
• Uvarovite: dark, rich green, mostly opaque
• Demantoid: yellow-green, emerald green, deep green with a brownish tint
• Topazolite: yellow, brownish-yellow, brown
• Hessonite: burnt orange, yellow, brown, amber, cinnamon
• Tsavorite: light spring green to saturated, vivid forest green
• Rhodolite: rose, dark red, violet or purple tint, raspberry, plum, wine, crimson

Garnet is mainly sourced from the USA, Australia, China, South Africa, Brazil, Madagascar, Myanmar, Russia, Namibia (demantoid), Kenya, Tanzania (tsavorite), India, and Sri Lanka (rhodolite).