 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from common minerals (e.g. quartz, feldspar, and garnet). Features that make a gemstone valuable, such...emerald-green color (Burns 1993). The formation of a gem deposit requires not only the presence of sometimes rare...ultramafic rocks. In eastern Zambia, rhodolite [rose-pink to red pyrope, (Mg,Fe) 3Al2 (SiO4) 3] forms...from poor countries, where the discovery of a new deposit could lead to a major change, for better or worse...contributed a 75% interest in the Kagem mine in Zambia, Africa’s largest emerald mine, and an option to |  | | Report (issue) | | Garnet Great Balls of Fire ISBN 978-0-9790998-4-7 Publisher Lithographie, LLC East Hampton, Connecticut...the Wessels Mine near Hotazel in northern Cape Province, South Africa. Dan Carlson specimen; Jeff Scovil...and humorist to this series Facing page: Faceted pyrope-spessartine from Kenya 99.5 carats Houston Museum...meter relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Garnet Great Balls of Fire Contributors Lothar Ackermann...2008, I attended the John Sinkankas Symposium on garnet at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) in |  | | Journal (issue) | | jeweler—stopped by. Recognizing their dilemma, Myhre placed a garnet in front of the instrument and calmly showed them...gemological description Variety of orange-brown almandine-pyrope garnets Plastic impregnated and dyed to improve...one of the first descriptions of a color-change garnet from East Africa. At about that time, he began... Crowningshield G.R. (1970) A rare alexandrite garnet from Tanzania. Gems & Gemology, Vol. 13, No. 6...sample 6, 1.8 ct, came from the Anabar placer deposit in northern Yakutia. All six diamonds were examined |
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Sangu garnet deposit, Muchinga Province, Zambia