Tsavorite & Demantoid (The Green Garnets)

Tsavorite is a vivid green variety of grossular garnet. It was discovered in the 1960s near Tsavo National Park in Tanzania and Kenya. Its bright green colour rivals emerald, and it has superior durability and is almost never treated. Demantoid is the chromium-green variety of andradite garnet. It is known for its diamond-like dispersion (fire) and is especially prized when it contains radiating, fibrous horsetail inclusions of chrysotile - a feature associated most famously with material from the Ural Mountains in Russia.

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