Garnet is January’s birthstone and the anniversary gemstone for the second year of marriage. Garnet derived its name from the Latin word granatus, meaning like a grain, which refers to the mode of occurrence wherein crystals resemble grains or seeds.

The most frequently occurring color for garnet is red. However you can find garnets in also every color, with the exception of blue. Garnet are found in different shades of green, pale to bright yellow, fiery orange and fine earth- and umbra-shades. There are a number of garnets; Hessonite is a fine orange, cinnamon brown, or pinkish variety of grossularite, while tsavorite is the trade name for fine dark green grossularite. Melanite is a black titanium bearing variety of andradite and demantoid is a rich green variety. Malaya is a trade name for a pyrope-spessartite that varies in color from red, through shades of orange and brownish orange to peach and pink. Rhodolite is a purplish redpyrope-almandite.

• Almandine: Orangy red to purplish red
• Almandine-spessartine: Reddish orange
• Andradite: Yellowish green to orangy yellow to black
• Demantoid: Green to yellow green andradite
• Topazolite: Yellow to orangy yellow
• Grossular: Colorless; also orange, pink, yellow, and brown
• Tsavorite: Green to yellowish green
• Hessonite: Yellow orange to red
• Pyrope: Colorless; also pink to red
• Chrome pyrope: Orange red
• Pyrope-Almadine: Reddish orange to red purple
• Pyrope-Spessartine: Greenish yellow to purple
• Malaia: Yellowish to reddish orange to brown
• Color-change garnet: Blue green in daylight to purple red in incandescent light
• Rhodolite: Purplish red to red purple
• Spessartine: Yellowish orange
• Uvarovite: Emerald green