Golden Spessartite GARNET Loose Genuine 1.10 ct 7x5mm Oval 100% Natural G9909

Description

Golden Spessartite Garnet Loose Genuine 1.10 ct 7x5mm Oval 100% Natural G8j54
This is a Garnet in the yellow-to-orange color.
This golden Spessartite Garnet
has an excellent cut and clarity.
Garnets
are one of the few gemstones that do not respond or take enhancements: so garnets
are unaltered from their natural state--just cut and polished
. Garnet has many varieties and multiple colors, this is an example of a golden garnet and Garnet is January's Birthstone.  This stone has a deep yellow, highly saturated, even color and is transparent.
This garnet is still sealed in its original box.  The photos were taken from various angles under full spectrum fluorescent light.
Purchased from JTV September 2003...from a personal collection / hoard
G9V122 G9V248
from JTV's Gemopedia (TM):
While it was once just a collector's gem, spessartite, an orange variety of garnet, made its move into the mainstream during the 1990s when new deposits were discovered in Africa. Like most garnets, spessartite is typically untreated, so the beautiful color and clarity that you see in them is just as nature created it. Spessartite garnet is named after its first discovery in Spessart, Bavaria, in the mid 1800's.
from the internet:
Mandarin Spessartite Garnet
is a rare form of orange
garnet
often referred to as
Mandarin Garnet
for its vivid orange color. These gems actually occur in a range of colors from yellowish orange to reddish orange and orange-red. ... The vivid orange is the most valuable, especially clean stones in larger sizes.
A
Rare
Vivid Mandarin
Orange Garnet
from Nigeria. The bright
orange
or reddish-
orange garnet
known as spessartite is one of the most vivid and brilliant stones in the gems world. But specimens with top color are very
rare
in large sizes. The main quality factors are color and clarity.