An Early Byzantine Engraved Almandine from the Garibpet Deposit, Telangana State, India: Evidence for Garnet Trade Along the Ancient Maritime Silk Road
H. Albert Gilg, Karl Schmetzer, and Ulrich Schüssler, August 6, 2018
Analyses the chemical composition and inclusion characteristics of this ancient artefact.
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Purple Pyrope-Almandine Garnet From Mozambique
Supharart Sangsawong, Victoria Raynaud, and Vincent Pardieu, November 7, 2016
Analysis of attractive purple garnets from a new deposit in central Mozambique.
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Pyrope Garnet and Montana Sapphires Highlight Winter 2015 G&G
Russell Shor, February 1, 2016
G&G Brief presents an overview of the content of the Winter 2015 issue of Gems & Gemology.
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Demantoid garnet fossil pseudomorphs
Emmanuel Fritsch, Julien Raoul, Benjamin Rondeau, and Olivier Segura, January 31, 2014
In these two extremely rare specimens, demantoid garnet has replaced coral and gastropod fossils.
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Gem Mining in Cambodia
Vincent Pardieu, GIA, August 9, 2013
How to examine a sapphire crystal for cracks and inclusions.
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New Chromium- and Vanadium-Bearing Garnets from Tranoroa, Madagascar
Karl Schmetzer, Thomas Hainschwang, June 1, 2002
Pyrope-spessartine garnets from Tranoroa, in southern Madagascar, contain appreciable Cr and somewhat lower V contents.
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Garnets from Madagascar with a Colour Change of Blue-Green to Purple
Karl Schmetzer and Heinz-Jürgen Bernhardt, December 1, 1999
Gemmological, chemical, spectroscopic and microscopic properties of blue-green colour-change garnets from a new deposit near Bekily, Madagascar, are given.
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Bohemian Garnet – Today
Jochen Schlüter and Wolfgang Weitschat, September 1, 1991
Red garnets have been mined in the Bohemian Hills of Czechoslovakia since the 16th century.
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Pastel Pyropes
Carol M. Stockton, June 1, 1988
Pyrope garnets occur in near-colourless to light orange and pink, as well as the familiar red.
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The Elahera Gem Field in Central Sri Lanka
Mahinda Gunawardene and Mahinda S. Rupasinghe, June 1, 1986
The Elahera gem field currently provides approximately 35% of the gemstones exported from Sri Lanka.
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