Awesome Tangerine to Orangey Red Spessartite Garnet from Tanzania! 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. Many of these stones are remarkably clean for this type of Garnet. There are inclusions in some of the rough; however, we estimate that roughly 60% of the lot is Good Medium to Top Facet Grade. This material is not easy to come by and there are some KILLER stones in here. The clarity on this material is MUCH better than your TYPICAL Nigerian and Namibian Mandarin Garnet and is guaranteed to please! 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.