0.74 ct Purple Garnet-Grape - Pear

At 0.74 carats, this grape garnet from Mozambique carries its purple color through a pear cut, measuring 6.8 x 5.1 x 3.2 mm.

Mozambique's northern gem fields supply ruby, tourmaline, and a steady run of fine garnet with the strong color East Africa is known for. It is entirely untreated; no heat, no enhancement, the color exactly as the earth made it. That is typical of garnet, one of the few gem families that reaches the market almost entirely untreated.

A natural grape garnet small enough to wear every day and real enough to mean it, not a lab stone and not glass. Hand-selected and photographed by Caveman Gems in good light, shown as honestly as a screen allows.