Mandarin Spessartite Garnet

Gorgeous Spessartite garnet from Nigeria. Contains a small amount of the typical “sugar” inclusions present in most of this material and some haze that gives it a glow, there is one tiny brown needle on one side that is invisible from almost all angles and no black specks. This stone is a vibrant orange without any brown undertones like most lower quality spessartite or lookalike hessonite garnets. Cut into a full high dome shape with a flat back but no girdle unlike most of my pieces so is compatible with a bezel or prong setting. Overall an extremely nice stone, probably the nicest stone I have ever offered. Fun fact about this material is it can be differentiated from other garnets and most orange stones because it is (weakly) magnetic due to manganese! This stone is cleaner and more orange/less gold than the other spessartite garnets in addition to being larger.
6.3 carats, 11 mm x 9 mm x 6 mm