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Malaya Garnet

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Nearly 20 years ago, some miners in East Africa went looking for a purplish-pink garnet called rhodolite which was very popular in Japan. One day, while digging for rhodolite, the miners found a strange orange and sometimes reddish-orange garnet mixed in with the pink garnet.

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Federman, D. (1990). Malaya Garnet. In: Modern Jeweler’s Consumer Guide to Colored Gemstones. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6488-7_21

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