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Once an Outcast, I Have Found Acceptance in Recent Years

Long before hybrid cars become popular, there was me.

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Once an Outcast, I Have Found Acceptance in Recent Years

FIRST FOUND BY MINERS looking for rhodolite in East Africa in the 1960s, I was initially thought to be spessartite, but I am actually a combination of that stone and two other garnets: almandite and pyrope. That mix didn’t really excite anyone, however, and I picked up a name based on the Swahili term for “outcast” as I was discarded by the bucket load. The name has stuck though, even as collectors and jewelry designers started showing an appreciation for my navel orange beauty in the ’70s.

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