Spectacular Lot of Mandarin Garnet Faceting Rough from Nigeria with the most spectacular pure Orange to Reddish Orange color. These are nice chunky water worn nodules and crystals or crystal sections with a bright Mandarin Orange color. This is unfortunately not large material averaging a little over 2.5 Carats; however, it does contain the cleanest material we have ever been able to get a hold of as of thus far. This is what we would consider glassy clean for Spessartite!

Most of these stones should cut in the Eye-clean to Flawless range with a little hard work. This is some great material that we are offering at a discounted price. Our price on this is better than most Nigerians and we are confident that this will make any experienced Mandarin Garnet connoisseur VERYYYYY happy.

1. Nigerian and Namibian Mandarin Garnet deposits are fast being depleted with most of the earlier larger material gone already. Initial finds were alluvial in nature and as those sources are depleted more work will be required to unearth these treasures at the primary deposits. This in the end will boil down to higher prices and sporadic production.