Garnet Gemstone
Description: Garnet is a naturally occurring gemstone and a family of related minerals, rather than a single gemstone. Each variety of garnet has a common crystal structure, however only clear can be used in gemstone therapy.
Color: Ranges in color from colorless to black, not blue
Hardness: 7.0 - 7.5
Source: Kenya, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Australia, Argentina, South Africa.
The garnet gemstone is a popular gemstone amongst birthstones, daily gemstone and planetary gemstone traditions.
The modern, traditional, ayurvedic, hebrew, roman, arabic, polish, russian, italian and zodiac birthstone for the month of January.
Garnet is also the daily gemstone for Tuesday and the planetary gemstone for the star sign Scorpio.
Garnet is the 2nd anniversary gemstone.









