With a vibrant red hue that has a warmth and intensity that few gemstones can match, the garnet is a beautiful stone that pairs well with warm gold tones as well as the cool brilliance of white gold. Reasonably priced and eye catching, garnet is a perfect gift idea for someone who has a January birthday, or someone who has a fondness for richly coloured stones.
Garnets are available in a range of colours, even colourless, but are best known in a bright crimson red hue that rivals the colour of the finest pigeon's blood rubies. Historically the garnet has been seen as a symbol of victory in battle, and a talisman of good health and well being to those who carried them. Garnets are said to protect against poisoning and have been favoured as mystical stones for thousands of years, and are mentioned in ancient Greek, Biblical and Egyptian texts.
Garnet sources include the midwestern United States, Sri Lanka, various deposits in Africa, and the Bavarian region of Germany. The rarest and most prized 'demantoid' green garnets are found in the Russian Urals.
Today garnet can be found in a wide variety of jewellery, and is particularly popular as the birthstone for January. Come see us at La Mine d'Or for lots of great garnet gift ideas for that special someone this January.
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