Saffyre
Rough_Rock
- Joined
- Feb 20, 2005
- Messages
- 27
Well I havent been back in a long while.. but I have been following and reading alot of the posts and information over the last 3 or 4 months. I am new to the Colored Stone side of things and like most noobies I think I made a decision based on looks.
I bought this stone which was listed as a Spessartite Garnet. Once I received it, to me the color didnt look quite right and it is very clean. I used my UV pen light and it shows bright red flouresence, which pretty much told me this is NOT a spessartite as listed. I had it looked at.. and the Gem tester showed it in the ruby-sapphire range.. I think he said the RI was 1.75. He didnt have all his tools at home, so couldnt run it through all the tests..
Just wondering what anyone had to say about the mystery stone here...
I bought this stone which was listed as a Spessartite Garnet. Once I received it, to me the color didnt look quite right and it is very clean. I used my UV pen light and it shows bright red flouresence, which pretty much told me this is NOT a spessartite as listed. I had it looked at.. and the Gem tester showed it in the ruby-sapphire range.. I think he said the RI was 1.75. He didnt have all his tools at home, so couldnt run it through all the tests..
Just wondering what anyone had to say about the mystery stone here...