Product Details
Gem Type: Garnet
Variety: Rhodolite 'Malaya' Type
Variety: Rhodolite 'Malaya' Type
Weight: 1.72 Cts
Shape: Fancy Round, Calibrated
Size: 7.20mm x 7.20mm x 4.60mm
Clarity: VVS
Color: Red / Orange Highlights with Shift towards Orange in Yellow Light
Treatment: None
Hardness: 7.0 on Mohs Scale
Origin: Tanzania
1.72CT GARNET RHODOLITE RED ORANGE PREMIUM 7.2mm ROUND RARE GEMSTONE (TANZANIA)
'Malaya Type' Red / Orange coloration in White / Yellow light
Is it red? Is it orange? You decide. Please keep in mind color witll appear saturated
in studio photos. But this piece can be intense ruby red to blood orange. A true 'Malaya" garnet.
High quality.
High quality.
As good as it gets for both material and quality of cut. Investment grade. VVS clarity. Flawless, polished girdle. This is the top tier of Rhodolite Garnet and would be perfectly at home in any museum or mineral display case. Full color field through the table. Juicy colors. This Rhodolite type / region is considered "Malaya" for it's pink and orange hues within the red. White light vs. Yellow light will produce different color hues.
Malaia Garnet (Malaya Garnet)
From International Gem Society:
"Although these gems were readily available in the 1970s, they have since become scarce, especially in large sizes.
Garnets are a complicated family. The story of malaia or malaya garnet illustrates this well. Discovered in the 1960s in the Umba Valley in Tanzania, these pink gems were called malaia, Swahili for "out of the family." Miners who were being paid to search for violet rhodolite literally set aside these finds. At that time, they didn't fit into any known garnet varieties.
When malaia garnets came to the attention of the gem world in the 1970s, however, the outcast quickly became quite popular and valuable. Since then, new discoveries have revealed these gems occur in a wider range of colors than the pink that initially garnered so much attention."
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