The decorative craft of setting cut garnets on colorless or yellow glass vessels was invented by Claudius vom Creutz in the Imperial City of Nuremberg circa 1591.

All garnets have around the same hardness (6.5-7.5) which helps to identify them, along with their aforementioned characteristic crystal shape. You can find garnets at Lake Michigan sand …

This fall I have had five candidate New Hampshire Spessartine garnets analyzed using an EDS microprobe service. The analysis results and the locality details for these specimens follow.

Garnet is not a single mineral, but describes a group of several closely related minerals. All species of garnets possess similar physical properties and crystal forms, but differ in chemical …

Garnets are a set of closely related minerals that form a group, resulting in gemstones in almost every color. Pyrope and almandine range in color from purple to red.

Garnets are hard, chemically inert, and recyclable, making them ideal for industrial uses (see pie diagram). Garnets similar to those shown here are used in water-jet cutting, air-blasting, and …

We analyzed major and trace element compositions of garnet in 14 well-characterized samples of aillikite, carbonatite, alnöites, monchiquites, nephelinite and turjaites and correlated the garnet …