Tsavorite Garnet Jewelry

Tsavorite is a green grossular garnet, colored by chromium and vanadium. It's not dyed, coated, or synthetic — the color comes straight from the mineral.

Raw tsavorite keeps the crystal exactly as it formed underground — no cutting, no polishing into standard facets. You get the stone's actual structure, not a shape forced onto it.

Yes. Faceted tsavorite is cut for maximum brilliance and even color. Raw tsavorite keeps its natural crystal faces and texture, so every piece looks different from the next.

Garnet is a group, not a single stone. Tsavorite is the green grossular variety; most people picture red pyrope or almandine garnet. Same family, completely different look and rarity.

Both are green, both precious-grade. Emerald is beryl and almost always oiled or resin-filled to hide inclusions. Tsavorite is garnet, comes out clean, and needs none of that.

Yes. It's mined from a handful of deposits in Kenya and Tanzania, nowhere else in commercial quantity, and clean stones over two carats are genuinely hard to find.

Per carat, fine tsavorite can cost more than commercial-grade emerald, especially since it never needs a treatment disclosure. Large, top-grade emeralds still lead the market overall.

Different garnet species — tsavorite is grossular, demantoid is andradite. Demantoid throws more fire and sparkle; tsavorite holds a purer, more saturated green.

It's an alternative January birthstone, since garnet as a group covers that month. Standard red garnet remains the default.

Associated with vitality, prosperity, and confidence in gemstone lore. That's tradition, not science.

It rates 7 to 7.5 on the Mohs scale with no cleavage plane, so it resists chipping better than emerald and holds up fine in rings worn every day.

No. Tsavorite is never heated, oiled, or enhanced. What comes out of the ground is what you wear.

There's no synthetic tsavorite on the market. If someone's selling a lab-made version, it isn't tsavorite — it's glass, resin, or a different stone entirely.

Commercial quality runs a few hundred dollars a carat. Fine color over two carats can run into the thousands — sizeable, clean stones are genuinely scarce.

Warm water, mild soap, soft brush. No harsh chemicals needed — there's no treatment to damage or coating to strip.

Yes. It's untreated, genuinely rare, tougher than emerald, and carries a green most people have never seen in a garnet.