Gem Quiz

I’m Green, I’m Rare, I… Have a Small Footprint…

I AM THE ONLY true chromium garnet, with all the gorgeous green trappings which that entails. Yet, I am far less likely to be used in jewelry than my better-known green cousins like tsavorite and demantoid. The reason? It’s a size issue; my crystals are too small to be faceted into gemstones. The result is a drusy moss-like look that can bring life to a pendant but not much more. I was named after one of the founding fathers of Russian mineralogy following my discovery in the Urals in 1830.

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