Green Garnet 8mm Round Banded - 15-16 InchGreen Garnet can be among the most valuable of garnets, which come in a variety of colors. Occurring in sizes ranging from a grain of sand to the size of an apple, Garnet was used as far back as the Bronze Age. It has been prized both as an ornamental jewel and for its strong curative powers and protective energies.

colored by trace amounts of chromium and/or vanadium to range in hue from yellow to green to blue to green

From Brazil

creating a beautiful blend of pink and green in mottled patterns

It is a rare variety of Pectolite

which provides sufficient hardness for the stone to be cut

This inspired the stone’s alias

The name derives from “cuprum

The description

colorless inclusions

Mined in: Sri Lanka

while other impurities in the stone may create veining and rich patterns

it was feared for centuries as a bad luck stone