Spessartite Garnet is usually characterized by an orange overtone but again we have some fluid boundaries and it is possible to get very dark orange stones or even red which may well be chemically in the parameters of Spessartite but sort of throw off the original meaning of what a true Spessartite colour should be. The best Spessartites have a lively vibrant pure orange colour to them and the original deposit in Namibia was short lived unfortunately so what we see in the market today mostly is darker material, and more included generally. You can still get nice orange material but it’s almost always got lots of small granular crystal inclusions. Sources includeTanzania, Kenya, Namibia and Madagascar. |