Definitions

1. Pyrope (fire-garnet, Bohemian garnet) is a dark-red variety of garnet found embedded in trap tufa in the mountains of Bohemia, and in serpentine in Germany.
2. Pyrope is an indicator mineral for high pressure rocks.
3. Pyrope was the European fashion stone of the 18th and 19th centuries.
4. Pyrope is commonly purplish red, purplish red, orangy red, crimson, or dark red; and almandite is deep red, brownish red, brownish black or violet-red.
5. Pyrope is usually red; spessartine, orange-red or brownish.

Amazing Brilliance

1. The amazing brilliance of pyrope is caused by its high refraction index.

Chromian Diopside

1. No peridot gemstones have been reported in these kimberlites to date, although most contain gem-quality diamonds, pyrope and chromian diopside.

Red Mineral Pyrope

1. Rhodolite - Rhodolite is a varietal name for rose-pink to red mineral pyrope, a species in the garnet group.

Rose-Red

1. Rhodolite: A variety of pyrope garnet ranging in color from rose-red to pale violet.

Associated

1. HEALING: While all Garnets are associated with the Root Chakra, Pyrope is particularly symbolic.
2. LEGEND and LORE: Pyrope Garnet has long been associated with love, passion, sensuality and sexuality.

North Carolina

1. Rhodolite Rhodolite is a varietal name for rose-pink to red pyrope garnet found in Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina.

Jewelry

1. Pyrope is quite sturdy and resistant to everyday wear and tear, and uncomplicated to work into jewelry.

Combination

1. Rhodolite garnet for instance, is a combination of almandine and pyrope, and is sometimes referred to as pyrope-almandine garnet.
2. It is a combination of almandine and pyrope (it is sometimes called pyrope-almandine garnet).

Victorian

1. Almandine garnet are red varieties, with pyrope being the common Bohemian garnet found in much Victorian and turn of the century jewelry.
2. Bohemian Garnet: Term for the red pyrope garnet found in much Victorian and turn of the century jewelry.

Cleavage

1. As with all garnets, pyrope has no cleavage, and fracture is subconchoidal to uneven.
2. The lack of cleavage, commonly euhedral crystal morphology, and mineral associations should also be used in identification of pyrope under the microscope.

Common

1. Although less common than most other garnets, pyrope is a common gemstone.

Hand Specimen

1. In hand specimen, pyrope is very tricky to distinguish from almandine, however it is likely to display fewer flaws and inclusions.

Name

1. Pyrope: Pyrope is typically described as blood or wine-red, while this name refers to the Greek word for “fire”.

Pyrope Garnet

1. Rhodolite: A rose-red to pale violet variety of pyrope garnet.
2. Pyrope garnet is the familiar deep red garnet.
3. The largest is about 1,000 feet across and consists of tuff and lapilli tuff with chromian diopside and pyrope garnet.

Omphacite

1. The typical eclogite mineral assemblage is garnet (pyrope to almandine) plus clinopyroxene (omphacite).
2. It also occurs in some kimberlite pipes and eclogites associated with pyrope garnet and omphacite.

Rhodolite

1. However, if almandine and pyrope are wine & blood, raspberry and rhodolite are berry & flowers.
2. Rhodolite is half-way between almandine and pyrope, being of a rhododendron red color, and is the most prized of the garnets.
3. The most common garnets are the reddish varieties, which bear the names Almandite, Pyrope, and Rhodolite.

Spessartite

1. Color change garnets are mostly pyrope and spessartite in composition.

Spessartine

1. This series is known as the pyralspites and includes pyrope, almandine, and spessartine.

Mix

1. It is thought to be a mix between pyrope and almandite.
2. Color-Change Garnet Color-change Garnet is a mix of spessartite and pyrope garnet.

Mixture

1. Rhodolite is the name used to describe the lovely pinkish, purplish or lavender Red Garnets which are a mixture of Almandite and Pyrope.
2. Rhodolite, a mixture of pyrope and almandite from North Carolina, is rose-red or purple.
3. A mixture of pyrope and spessartite from the Umba River Valley of Tanzania.

Metamorphic Rocks

1. Pyrope also occurs in u ltra h igh- p ressure (UHP) metamorphic rocks, as in the Dora-Maira massif in the western Alps.
2. It is a major mineral component of eclogite along with pyrope garnet and also occurs in blueschist facies and UHP (ultrahigh-pressure) metamorphic rocks.

Peridot

1. Pyrope and peridot are also present in a small hill in the center of the basin.

Varieties

1. The tsavorite and pyrope varieties of garnet rarely come in larger sizes and will be difficult to come by.

Ruby

1. An Australian ruby is actually a pyrope garnet (and not a ruby at all).
2. A Cape ruby is actually a pyrope garnet (and not a ruby at all).
3. American Ruby is actually a semi-precious pyrope garnet and not a ruby.

Composition

1. By composition, these garnets are a mix of spessartine and pyrope, as are Malaya garnets.
2. There are also some mixed members, such as rhodolite garnet, which is a mixture of pyrope and almandite by composition.
3. These had a composition between almandite and pyrope, that is, they had both magnesium and iron with aluminum and silica.

Chemical Composition

1. Its position in the series lies closer to pyrope than does that of rhodolite as the ratio of magnesium increases in the chemical composition.

Olivine

1. ENVIRONMENT: Pyrope occurs with olivine and hypersthene in peridotite of plutonic rocks.
2. Also found with diamonds are olivine, serpentine, carbonates, pyroxenes, pyrope garnet, magnetite, hematite, graphite and ilmenite.

Chromite

1. Indicator minerals useful in diamond exploration are pyrope garnet, picro- ilmenite, chrome-diopside, chromite, spinel and micro diamond.
2. Glass and mantle derived xenocrysts of olivine, pyrope garnet and chromite may also be present.

Kyanite

1. Main constituent phases are pyrope, quartz, phengite, talc, and kyanite with minor amounts of coesite and jadeite.

Minerals

1. Eclogites consist primarily of green pyroxene (omphacite) and red garnet (pyrope), with small amounts of various other minerals such as kyanite and rutile.
2. The mineral assemblage is greater than 90% olivine, with minor amounts of other minerals such as pyroxene, chromite and pyrope.

Gemstones

1. These gemstones occur in a range of colors from medium to dark reddish orange (Almandite and Pyrope) to purplish red to reddish purple (Rhodolite).

Red

1. Though pyrope does not have what one calls “fire” in a diamond it is definitely as red as it gets.
2. GEMSTONE INFORMATION: The garnet species with red or purple varieties, including Pyrope are considered gemstones.
3. Bohemian Garnet: A pyrope garnet very deep red in color that was used in many pieces of Victorian jewelry.

Uvarovite

1. Some minerals included in the garnet class are pyrope (red to black), almandine (red), grossularite (green yellow), and uvarovite (green).
2. Uvarovite (green) is a Calcium Chromium garnet, and Pyrope (red, and common in peridotites) is a Magnesium Aluminium garnet.

Grossular

1. Appearance Garnet is the name which can be applied to six similar mineral species, namely almandine, pyrope, spessartine, grossular, andradite and uvarovite.
2. Five of these minerals, almandine, pyrope, spessartine, grossular and andradite, are used as gemstones.

Pyrope Garnets

1. The amazing brilliance of pyrope garnets is caused by its high refraction of light.
2. Pyrope Garnets are tough wearing stones, so an excellent choice for jewelry.

Garnets

1. Pyrope Garnets are the most common on the market.
2. Pyrope garnets are purplish red, orangy red, crimson, or dark red.
3. The pyrope garnets are, as the name literally implies, of fire red color, as a rule, but they also may be purplish in color.

Garnet

1. If you look at a gemological reference you'll see that there are 6 kinds of garnet: pyrope, almandite, spessartite, grossularite, andradite and uvarovite.
2. Frequently, diamonds have inclusions of olivine, sulfides, chrome-diopside, chrome-spinels, zircon, rutile, disthene, biotite, pyrope garnet and ilmenite.
3. Pyrope Garnet is the deep red color of garnet.

Almandine

1. They are pyrope, almandine or carbuncle, spessartite, grossularite (also called hessonite or cinnamon -stone), uvarovite and andradite.
2. Six types of garnet are used as gems: pyrope; almandine, spessartine, grossular, andradite; and uvarovite.
3. Gem quality garnet is divided according to chemical composition into almandine, andradite, grossular, pyrope, spessartine, and uvarovite.

Pyrope

1. They are pyrope, almandine, spessartite, grossular (varieties of which are hessonite or cinnamon-stone and tsavorite), uvarovite and andradite.
2. They are pyrope, almandine, spessartite, grossular (varieties of which are hessonite or cinnamon -stone and tsavorite), uvarovite and andradite.
3. They are pyrope, almandine, spessartine, grossular (varieties of which are hessonite or cinnamon-stone and tsavorite), uvarovite and andradite.

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