MANDARIN ORANGE TO TANGERINE

Lot: Pak-Garnet-17

     

  

        

COLOR: Mandarin Orange to Tangerine
CLARITY: Will cut eye-clean to heavily included stones (30%+ High Facet Grade)
ORIGIN: Kunar, Afghanistan
SIZE: Stones range in size from Approximately 1.5 to 50 Carats (12.43+ Carat Average)
WEIGHT: 298.50  Carats (24 Pieces) 59.7 Grams
PRICE: $59.70 ( $.20 Per Carat / $1.00 Per Gram)
DESCRIPTION:

This is a fairly new find of Spessartite & Hessonite Garnet coming from Kunar, Afghanistan. The color of this material is just phenomenal and it falls into a very broad spectrum! Please be aware that this rough is a mixture of Spessartite and/or Hessonite (Possibly other Garnet as well) which are generally included species of Garnet and hence, it is extremely difficult to acquire eye-clean to flawless rough in either species. Most of this material WILL have at least minor inclusions. This should NOT significantly impact the cleaner finished stones. We have rough graded this material as being 30%+ high facet grade. This is only a rough estimate. The remainder is a mix of various cabbing grades and possibly some additional faceting rough.
COOL FACTS:

  1. This material has been sorted into what we call second generation mine run. What this means is that the local Afghans that sort this material at our mines have probably gone through roughly 20-50 kilos of junk for every 1 kilo of Cabbing and Facet Grade Rough. They have picked out everything that was nicely colored and either translucent or transparent.

  2. We ARE THE MINERS for this rough and as such we have the best prices available!!! There is nowhere you can pick this material up at this price.