1.78 ct Red Garnet-Rhodolite - Cushion

At 1.78 carats, this rhodolite garnet from Madagascar carries its red color through a cushion cut, measuring 8.5 x 6.4 x 3.9 mm.

Rhodolite sits between pyrope and almandine, with a raspberry note the eye reads as livelier than either parent species. Madagascar has produced an unusually wide range of gem species since the mid 1990s, and its garnets arrive in colors the older sources rarely matched. 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.

This is a real, natural rhodolite garnet you can wear without a second thought, the genuine article at an easy size. Hand-selected and photographed by Caveman Gems in good light, shown as honestly as a screen allows.