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2. Demantoid - Wikipedia

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   Demantoid is the green gemstone variety of the mineral andradite, a member of the garnet group of minerals. Andradite is a calcium- and iron-rich garnet. The chemical formula is Ca 3 Fe 2 (SiO 4) 3 with chromium substitution as the cause of the demantoid green color. Ferric iron is the cause of the yellow in the stone.

3. Garnet - Wikipedia

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   Most of the garnet at the Tuticorin beach in south India is 80 mesh, and ranges from 56 mesh to 100 mesh size. [citation needed] River garnet is particularly abundant in Australia. The river sand garnet occurs as a placer deposit. [70] Rock garnet is perhaps the garnet type used for the longest period of time. This type of garnet is produced in ...

4. Carbuncle (gemstone) - Wikipedia

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   In South American folklore, the carbuncle is a small elusive animal containing a mirror, shining gemstone or riches like gold. [4] [5] The description of the carbuncle vary, some saying it looks like a firefly in the night, or like having a bivalve-like shell and maize ear shape. [4]

5. Malaia garnet - Wikipedia

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   Malaia garnet or Malaya garnet is a gemological varietal name for light to dark slightly pinkish orange, reddish orange, or yellowish orange garnet, that are of a mixture within the pyralspite series pyrope, almandine, and spessartine with a little calcium. The name Malaia is translated from Swahili to mean, prostitute.

6. Tsavorite - Wikipedia

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   Tsavorite or tsavolite is a variety of the garnet group species grossular, a calcium-aluminium garnet with the formula Ca 3 Al 2 Si 3 O 12. [2] Trace amounts of vanadium or chromium provide the green color.

7. Jewels of Mary, Queen of Scots - Wikipedia

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   The Warner ring has a rose pear-shaped diamond in a black-enamelled setting. The ring was also said to be one which Elizabeth gave to the Earl of Essex and he returned to her from the Tower of London. In various 19th-century accounts of the "Essex" and Warner rings, Mary's gift and the verses are associated incorrectly with her marriage to ...