Unboxing Garnet | Rhodolite, Pyrope, Demantoid & More!

It's the Connecticut state gem & January's birthstone, but did you know Garnet is a whole family of gems with many colors & special properties? On today's episode, we're checking out all 6 species of Garnet, plus some rare & unusual varieties. Find out which is diamond-like, which comes from ants, & which has a rainbow of color ...& learn how they all fit together!

01:16 - Almandine Garnet
04:07 - Spessartine Garnet
05:39 - Grossular Garnet
08:06 - Andradite Garnet
10:18 - Uvarovite Garnet
11:30 - Pyrope Garnet

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[milanopiano]

Can I just say, that as a gem enthusiast this channel has enriched my knowledge of gemstones and minerals so much, it makes me very thankful to live in this day and age. You people bring an incredible quality of knowledge to youtube, it's almost mind blowing to think I don't have to pay for it. Thank you people so much.

[juliahughes]

As a January baby, my grandma gave me her mother's garnet and diamond ring for my 18th birthday. It's still my favorite piece of jewelry. Very dark red color

[theemeraldg]

With out Hesitation, Uvarovite and Tsavorite, That Deep green color is just too Amazing to Under look!

[rogerhargreaves]

Wow, a stunning array of Garnets there, all of them with their own geological story. Personally I found the Garnet family the most difficult species of gemstone to ever to study. 🤯

[brentonmah]

Full stop, rainbow andradite garnets are my favorite and more folks need to check them out, despite their rarity!

[Elizabeth-vo]

I think that garnet is one of the most underrated gemstones!!!❤ and im happy to say that i have loved this episode enough to watch it afew times!!!!

[jessicawood]

Demantoid garnet is easily my favorite garnet—not only for the dispersion, but it just so happens my fave color is inch worm green, & demantoids seem to have a more yellow hued green, vs the also gorgeous tsavorite

[pandora]

Spessartine and tsavorite are my favorites. Green is my favorite color and Garnet is my birthstone so I've always wanted a tsavorite.

[william.komatii]

Deep fan of almandine garnet here. I did my PhD in a gold mine that has a garnet-biotite schist that looks a lot like the graphite-dravite-garnet you showed.

[Elizabeth-vo]

As a true lover of all-things even slightly Im going to half to agree with bros choice for the closer look!!! A truly rare

[alantes]

That color of Spessartine is so breathtaking.

[saraa]

My engagement ring is an oval shaped rhodolite garnet from North Carolina. In sunlight it looks more red to me and in electric lights it looks more purple. It's fun to see how it changes and always looks interesting and beautiful

[chasecarlson]

Aside from tourmaline, garnet is my largest collection! I absolutely love it, especially tsavorite and Rhodolite! Both have amazing colors, plus garnet crystals are just so cool! I have a small spessartine cluster in my collection that exhibits the crystal structure very well! Definitely a big favorite, awesome video! 💎 I got super lucky to purchase a very very tiny Demantoid, i absolutely love Demantoids fire!
If I HAD to choose a favorite, I’d go with Rhodolite with intense purple shades

[LostWithoutHer]

Great video. I wish it was longer and included the rare Masasi blues, Mali, Malaia, colorless, and color shift garnets. I have a bunch of q's. Are all garnets magnetic? If it's only the spessartine, ignoring clarity as an identifying feature, is it possible to isolate spessartines from pale orange hessonites using a magnet? Is it possible to sight-id a tsavorite vs. green demantoid if there's no horsetail clue? Could a magnet assist? For future videos, I'd like to see one about magnetic gemstones. Thanks and congrats if you made it through the entirety of my comment. LOL.

[bannahbee]

I didn't know that garnets had a variety of color! Super beautiful pieces 😍

[tracyfrederick]

Tsavorite, Hessonite, Spessartite ... I love my garnets ! Uvarovite is stunning too.

[Eggthedreg]

I'm getting a gorgeous almandine in matrix (schist) tomorrow!!

[KrosanBeast]

14:05 The correct call is: Variety: Iridescent, Species: Andradite, Group: Garnet. They are mostly found in Japan.

[sonjabolte]

Oh my gosh! So my birthstone is a garnet. And I have always been put off by the deep “poop red” as I liked to call it when I was younger. I can’t believe I didn’t know about all of the different colors there are!! I am so excited with this new information thank you guys!!!

[patriciashelton]

I live in Ga. An I know nothing about gem stones, but my grandson an I picked up many of old looking rocks that had red stones just basically fall off by picking it with your finger nail. Dark red and more like crystals from their shapes. Over the years we had a plastic lunch bag with around two hundred of the stones. I just figured they were garnets since garnets aren't rare. You'll be amazed at what you can find when walking .