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Tsavorite Stone
Chemical Structure: Ca3Al2Si3O12
Color: Light to deep green
Hardness: 7 - 7.5
Dispersion: 0.028
Refractive index: 1.740
Specific gravity: 3.60-3.68
Tsavorite is a very popular, exquisitely brilliant green grossular garnet. This stone is one of the few gemstones which is considered to be 100% natural in the market today. It is neither heated nor oiled, neither opticon-treated nor synthesized. The stone has all the qualities of beauty, intrinsic value, rarity, and romance that are required in a gemstone. Available in a various shades of green, this is the most beautiful green gemstone in the world today. It is durable, it mixes well with diamonds and it is natural. This type is only found in East Africa which makes it all the more exclusive and exotic. Though Tsavorite is considered to expensive because of its rarity, on the contrary, it is approximately one fourth the price of other comparable emeralds.
