Red Garnet Tumbled Crystals
Beautiful red garnet tumbled stones cut from material mined in India.
Garnet is one of the oldest gemstones and one of the most widely occurring minerals on Earth. Its use can be traced back as far as 3100 B.C.
Although red is one of the best known and most popular colours garnet can also be green, pink, yellow, orange, brown, black or even colourless.
The colour is almost always natural. Unlike many minerals it's rarely heat treated.
Garnet is a hard durable crystalline solid that's widely used as an abrasive.
It can withstand high temperatures and extreme pressure.
With garnet being so hard it's not an easy stone to polish. As with all rocks and minerals, tumbled stones are polished using a harder material usually quartz. Garnet and quartz have a very similar hardness.
These highly polished fine grade garnet crystals are classed as a medium sized stone. With that said some are on the larger side of medium. Size does vary slightly from piece to piece.
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