1.76 ct Pink Garnet-Rhodolite - Cushion

At 1.76 carats, this rhodolite garnet from Tanzania carries its pink color through a cushion cut, measuring 7.9 x 5.9 x 4.3 mm.

Rhodolite sits between pyrope and almandine, with a raspberry note the eye reads as livelier than either parent species. Tanzania's gem gravels yield one of the widest spreads of garnet species anywhere, with the saturation East African material is known for. It carries no treatment of any kind, so the color you see is the color that came out of the ground. That is typical of garnet, one of the few gem families that reaches the market almost entirely untreated.

A natural rhodolite 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.