Demantoid (Garnets)
Date - Pricing as of April 2008

Color: Green, yellow/green, blue/green

Note: Most Demantoid Garnet is small and usually not very clean. Typically the Russian material has a lot of Rutile needles in it. Most of this material is 1 carat or less and often used as accent stones.

Note2: This is a strictly a commercial market and price will vary significantly depending on location and size.

Medium (45% tone to 65%) - Medium.
Comments - This material usually small and frankly to me not worth cutting. If you do manage to find a nice piece of rough, a brilliant design is usually the best choice.
Pricing - This is strictly a collector stone and pricing is what ever the market will bring or is bringing

Dark (85% tone to 100%) - This material is around, usually very dark. I seldom cut any thing this dark.
Comments - Depending on the mine location this material can be heated to lighten it (I haev been told by miners), and some times they do some other treatments.

Special - As we all know as cutters some times a stone just comes out "special" for what ever reason. On these kinds of stones I basically price how ever I feel like. Because this stone comes under the "special" category I often do not care if I sell the stone or not. So I usually price it high enough that if I do sell it, I get a very good price. Enough to make me say "Oh well..." and sell it. So be aware that some times I just price a stone high because I do not care if I sell it. Ironically these stones usually sell the fastest...

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