Red garnets have a long history, but modern gem buyers can pick from a rich palette of garnet colors: greens, oranges, pinkish oranges, deeply saturated purplish reds, and even some blues. Red garnet ...

Here's a guide to January's stone, including its namesake, history and more. Garnet is January's birthstone. Its name derives from the medieval Latin "granatus," meaning "pomegranate," according ...

like garnet and diamond, is singly refractive, with the same physical properties in all crystal directions. It belongs to the cubic crystal system, and its characteristic crystal shape is an ...