Tangerine to Orangey Red Spessartite Garnet from Nigeria! The color of this material is just phenomenal and runs from a lovely fiery Tangerine with Red Flashes to an Orangey Red! Please be aware that Spessartite is generally an included species of Garnet and it is extremely difficult to acquire eye-clean to flawless rough. Many of these stones are remarkably clean for this type of Garnet. There are inclusions in some of the rough; however, the bulk of this lot is composed of High to Top Facet Grade Material. We estimate that roughly 90% of the lot is Good High Facet Grade. This material is not easy to come by and there are some KILLER stones in here. The clarity on this material is MUCH better than your TYPICAL Nigerian and Namibian Mandarin Garnet and is guaranteed to please! Don't miss your chance on picking up this lot as we don't know when we will be getting more!

Please note that there is one stone in the parcel that was unusual in color for Garnet and we are not sure what it is; however, we have included it in the parcel as that is the way we received it. The color on the piece is distinctly brown and should be pretty easy to spot.

1. Nigerian and Namibian Mandarin Garnet deposits are fast being depleted with most of the earlier larger material gone already. Initial finds were alluvial in nature and as those sources are depleted more work will be required to unearth these treasures at the primary deposits. This in the end will boil down to higher prices and sporadic production.