0.88 ct Purple Garnet-Grape - Radiant

At 0.88 carats, this grape garnet from Mozambique carries its purple color through a radiant cut, measuring 5.1 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 wholly untreated, its color finished by geology rather than by any furnace or enhancement. 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.