Why A Demantoid Garnet Is Regarded As A Rare Gem

Have you ever compared a demantoid jewelry to a diamond? You probably have no idea what a demantoid or a garnet looks like. If you are aware of the monthly birthstones and you are a person born in the month of January, it is likely that are also aware that your birth month is well represented by the garnet gem.

Garnets are usually common gems but there are rare kinds, namely: a spessartite garnet, a tsavorite garnet, and the demantoid garnet. Of these three kinds of garnets, a demantoid garnet is the rarest among them.

Below are some unique features that we are likely to look for a garnet demantoid:

1. Color. You can’t go wrong with a garnet demantoid’s color because it is always in the shade of green, from light yellowish green to emerald type of green.

2. Radiance. A genuine garnet demantoid is known for its exceptional brightness when it is exposed to light because it has a high refractive index.

3. Dispersion. Demantoids have a high dispersion. This is a feature of a gem that allows us the opportunity to see a beautiful spectrum of colors when it is subjected to light. In fact, it is said to have a higher dispersion than that of a diamond.

4. Rarity. The rarity of it rests on the fact that such gems can only be found chiefly in Russia and then years later there were demantoids of lesser rarity that came from Namibia. It may well be recalled that such demantoid garnets were first found in Russia from the Ural Mountains, specifically on the year 1868.

5. Makeup. Part of what makes demantoids (the Russian mined ones) to look outstandingly gorgeous is because of its physical makeup where a person can actually notice horsetail or fiber-like inclusions through the garnet gem.

Because of the above characteristics and other factors, a demantoid jewelry is usually expensive, although the prices of Russian demantoids are generally much more expensive than the demantoids found elsewhere because of their unique horsetail-like inclusions not found in other demantoid garnets produced elsewhere.