Tsavorite

Not a Birthstone

 

Because of their beauty, rarity , hardness, and toughness, tsavorites, can be excellent gemstones suitable for investment or jewelry. Tsavorite has a beautiful vivid green color, is bright and lively with a high refractive index, and has a garnet's durability and high clarity. This gemstone is not treated in any wayTsavorite comes from the East African bush: all the mines currently producing are in an arid grassy area with bare dry hills that runs across the border from Kenya to Tanzania.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, this land was covered by the ocean, where layers of organic sediment were deposited. Then the land was subjected to intense heat and pressure, folding and changing the ocean floor into new minerals. This twisting and torturing of the rocks gave birth to the unusual gemstones of East Africa.