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The precious stone of Grossular Garnet is believed to bring good fortune and luck to people dealing with lotteries, share market, real estate, exports, imports and speculative businesses.
This stone is characterized by the colour of cow's urine and the appearance is similar to powdered sugar in honey. As garnet was sourced in large numbers from Sri Lanka, which was known as the 'Land of spices', the stone is also called 'Hessonite cinnamon stone.'
According to Indian Astrology, garnet is the stone related to 'Rahu', the commander of the 'Asura' (demoniac) forces. This makes garnet the stone to wear for neutralizing the negative effects of Rahu as well as seek luck.
Another belief related to garnet is that it can solve the psychological problems caused by evil apparitions. The stone is also considered to possess medicinal properties to treat skin diseases and wounds caused by impure blood.
Malaya (malaia) garnet is one of the rarer and more interesting 'hybrid' varieties of garnet. It is primarily a mix of pyrope and spessartine, which was first discovered in the 1960s. It was discovered in the Umba River Valley bordering Tanzania and Kenya, which remains the primary source for malaya garnet. GIA classifies malaya garnet as only a pyrope-spessartite species, but this may not be the case for all malaya garnet. For the most part, malaya garnet has been considered a variety of pyrope, since most tested specimens contained higher percentages of pyrope as their primary component. However, over the years, many malaya garnet specimens were discovered to contain equal parts of both spessartite or almandine. In some cases, stones also contained minor traces of grossular and andradite. Research has now shown that its composition can be highly variable, ranging anywhere from 2 to 94% spessartite, 0 to 83% pyrope, 2 to 78% almandine, 0 to 24% grossular and 0 to 4% andradite.
Astrology says that garnet brings wealth, prosperity and pleasure to your life. Those who can prosper by wearing the stone include people engaged in cosmetic trade, lottery sellers, share market dealers, professionals in film and television serial sectors and staff of chemical laboratories.
People born during the 'lagnas' of Edavam, Mithunam, Kanni, Thulam, Makaram and Kumbham can wear garnet. In addition, if your birthday falls on the days 4, 13, 22 and 31 the stone can be worn, as per numerology.
When a person passes through the 'Rahu' phase, garnet can be chosen to lead a normal life. If your birth star is Thiruvathira, Chothy or Chathayam, garnet would be ideal.
If your horoscope suggests 'kala sarpa dosham', garnet should be avoided as the stone would increase your agony. Similarly, those who have Rahu in the sixth, eighth or twelfth positions of their birth 'lagnam' also need to keep away from the precious stone.
Malaya garnet's refractive index and specific gravity can overlap that of grossular, and materials can even form with near identical colors making them very difficult to distinguish from one another. Thus, identification of malaya garnet normally requires chemical analysis. Malaya garnet has excellent hardness of 7-7.5 on the Mohs scale and often exhibits needle-like inclusions which can help distinguish malaya garnet from other gems. Like all garnet, malaya has a very distinct cubic crystal structure; the rhombic dodecahedral faces are a hallmark of garnet gemstones. Other distinguishing aspects include lack of cleavage, fluorescence and lack of pleochroism, since garnet is singly refractive.
Malaya garnet is found primarily in East Africa's Umba River Valley which borders northern Tanzania and Southern Kenya. In 1993, discoveries of similar material were also reported in Southern Tanzania. There have also been deposits found in both Madagascar and Sri Lanka (Ceylon).
Malaya garnet occurs in a variety of unique and interesting colors including pinkish-orange, reddish-orange and yellowish-orange, all with varying light and dark tones. The rarest malaya colors include honey-peach, cinnamon, pinkish-orange and near-colorless. Orangey stones are typically rarer than reddish, and stones with lesser amounts of brown are considered more desirable. Malaya garnet is known to exhibit scintillating flashes of red, incomparable to any other type of garnet. The cause of the color is manganese and sometimes iron.
'Umbalite garnet' is a name used for malaya garnet from the Umba Valley that exhibits a red color with a slight hint of orange. 'Imperial garnet' is a trade name used to refer to bright pinkish-orange stones which are neither too dark nor too pale. Some pale pink specimens may exhibit a reddish or gold color change. Some orange-red stones may also exhibit a brownish-orange color change. Color change malaya garnet is still classified as malaya garnet based on identical chemical composition.
Malaya garnet is considered to be a 'type II' stone according to the GIA's colored stone clarity scale. This means that most malaya garnet will exhibit some visible inclusions, typically rutile, pyrite or apatite. The most common inclusions are small needle-like clusters of rutile. When polished, malaya garnet has an attractive glass-like (vitreous) luster.
Malaya garnets have remarkable fire and dispersion. This means that they are most often faceted rather than cut en cabochon. Any cut and shape that maximizes fire and minimizes color darkness is ideal. The most effective shapes for this include cushions, rounds and ovals.
The garnet group of gemstones is one of the most important in the gemstone industry. The garnet family also includes pyrope, almandine, spessartite, grossularite, uvarovite and andradite. Although there are only six distinct types of garnet, garnet commonly forms with more than just one mineral, which results in numerous hybrid gemstone varieties. In fact, very rarely is any garnet ever in pure form; for example, stones sold as 'pyrope' or 'almandine' almost always contain some traces of another garnet species. There are a number of other gemstones and minerals that can be easily mistaken for garnet stones, particularly because of the wide variety of colors and localities in which garnet can occur. Some of the most commonly confused materials include spinel, chrysoberyl, alexandrite, tourmaline and sapphire.
Tsavorite garnet, star garnet, pyrope garnet, almandine garnet, rhodolite garnet, grossular (grossularite) garnet, spessartite garnet and demantoid garnet are among the most popular garnet varieties.
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