Is A Demantoid Garnet Better Than Diamond?
Have you ever compared a demantoid garnet jewelry to a diamond? You probably have no inkling as to what a demantoid or a garnet looks like. If you are aware of the monthly birthstones and you are a person born in the month of January, it is likely that you also know that your birth month is well represented by the garnet gem.
Demantoids more or less means diamond-like in nature. In some ways, people can’t seem to help but compare this green colored gem to a clear diamond. In all fairness to the garnet demantoid, and beyond giving importance to a garnet commonly used as a monthly birthstone, it actually starts to receive as much or more attention from the gem or jewelry collectors as that of a diamond.
Below are some exciting features that we are likely to expect from a garnet demantoid:
1. Hue. You can’t go wrong with a garnet demantoid’s color because it is always in the shade of green, from light yellowish green to emerald type of green.
2. Luminance. A genuine garnet demantoid is known for its exceptional readiance when it is exposed to light because it has a high refractive index.
3. Dispersion. Demantoids have a high dispersion. This is a characteristic of a gem that allows us the chance to see a beautiful spectrum of colors when it is exposed to light. As a matter of fact, it is said to have a higher dispersion than that of a diamond.
4. Beautiful Oddity. The rarity of it lies on the fact that such gems can only be found chiefly in Russia and then afterwards there were demantoids of lesser rarity that came from Namibia. It may well be recalled that such demantoid garnets were first found in Russia from the Ural Mountains, specifically on the year 1868.
5. Makeup. Part of what makes demantoids (the Russian mined ones) to look remarkably gorgeous is because of its physical makeup where a person can actually see horsetail or fiber-like inclusions through the garnet gem.
Because of the above characteristics and other factors, a demantoid jewelry is usually costly, although the prices of Russian demantoids are generally much more expensive than the demantoids found anywhere else because of their unique horsetail-like inclusions not found in other demantoid garnets produced elsewhere. Therefore, the factors affecting the variation in prices, among other things, are as follows: the quality and size of the garnet gemstones in terms of carats, and whether it is considered a horsetail demantoid garnet or not.