We are glad to be the first to introduce this wonderful new Mandarin Garnet from none other than Afghanistan! THERE IS AN ARTICLE ON THIS MATERIAL IN THE LATEST GEMS & GEMOLOGY ISSUE! This material closely resembles the Namibian and better quality Nigerian Mandarin Spessartite Garnet Seldom Available in the market; however, many of the stones have a VERY subtle Peach overtone like we have not seen before. Many of these are the most Pure Orange stones we have acquired with some of the material being a Tangerine color. This is the best material we have acquired so far but we are still working on securing a buying contract with the mine owner. There were a few stones that initially came out going over 10 grams running the Mandarin Orange in color with very high clarity! Those stones however, held far higher value as Mineral Specimen and therefore we did not acquire them as Facet Rough.

Since all Afghan finds are from Primary Deposits almost all of these stones show Crystal faces or natural etching with many showing high external luster. Overall this parcel is extremely clean with roughly 95%+ being High to Top Facet Grade and we are confident you will take out mostly Eye-clean to very slightly included stones from the parcel. These stones are a bit small averaging around 1 carat and we would suggest commercial cutting for them; however, what they lose out on for size they more than make up for with clarity and color! This is as glassy as you can get for Mandarin Spessartite. We are confident that this will make any experienced Mandarin Garnet connoisseur VERYYYYY happy.

1. Afghanistan & Pakistan are said to house most of the next centuries new finds of stones and we are constantly seeing new stones being discovered. We are trying our best to stay at the forefront of the New Finds but it is becoming extremely difficult with the locals catching on quick. This material floored us the first time we saw it and we are confident it will do the same for you. The color on some of the Mandarin Garnet coming from Afghanistan is just mind blowing and reminiscent of the old Namibian finds! Please note that this is NOT a large find and since this material is coming from a primary deposit at extremely high altitude there is considerably higher expenditures involved in unearthing this material! Don't miss your opportunity to procure some of this material before the mine turns to the same as the Namibian....dry!

2. GIA article on this material available HERE!