原创 January Birthstone: Garnet

The garnet is the official birthstone for the month of January as named by the American National Association of Jewelers in 1912. It can also be given as a milestone gem on the second and sixth anniversaries. tiffany & co These scintillating gemstones come in a gorgeous array of colors including orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black and colorless; but the sultry, red garnet is by far the most popular. tiffany co jewelry  The most common forms of granite are almandine, spessartine, grossular, andradite and pyrope. The rarest type of garnet is blue. The most recent gucci jewelry discovery of this rare gem was found in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Madagascar in the late 1990’s.  Garnets usually rate a 6.5 to 7.5 in hardness according to the Moh’s scale. They are typically found in Latin America, some parts of Europe, Africa, Asia and <st1:country-region w:st="on">India.  gucci sale