Tangerine to Orangey Red Spessartite Garnet from Nigeria! The color of this material is just phenomenal and runs from a lovely fiery Tangerine with Red Flashes to an Orangey Red! Please be aware that Spessartite is generally an included species of Garnet and it is extremely difficult to acquire eye-clean to flawless rough. The lot overall is running roughly 30% high facet grade; however, most stones do have some inclusions and you will have to cob and/or saw the material up to get the top facet rough out. These are unusually large stones for the species with an average weight of 20 CARATS for the parcel! This material is not easy to come by and there are some KILLER stones in here. Don't miss your chance on picking up this lot as we don't know when we will be getting more!

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.