Tsavorite
January 6, 2009
Tsavorite
Tsavorite or tsavolite is a variety of the garnet group.
What is it that makes the tsavorite so desirable? There is its vivid, radiant green and a color range that includes a springlike light green, an intense blue-green and a deep forest green. This gemstone is also valuable on account of its great brilliance.
Apart from the source locality in Tanzania it is also found in Toliara (Tuléar) Province, Madagascar, but so far, no other occurrences of gem material have been discovered.