About Purple Garnet

Purple Garnet also known as Umbalite Garnet, has a mesmerizing vivid purple hue with red flashes that displays a color change from grape to cranberry with magenta flashes. This finest mineral from Mozambique is one of the rarest gemstones in the world that gem collectors love to add to their collection. Because of its dramatic deep purple color, attractive red flashes, excellent brilliance, and impeccable benefits, it is desired to be one of the most loved gemstones by people all around. Discovered in East Africa, this Umbalite Garnet exhibits an unusual change in color making it more desirable all around.

Purple Garnet Properties

Purple Garnet Meaning

Purple Garnet is a gemstone of inspiration and emotional healing. This extremely rare gemstone is said to encourage the feeling of love, kindness, compassion and also promote a lot of self-worth and spiritual growth. A Purple Garnet stone shares a symbol of constructiveness, and proves to be highly effective for people who seek self motivation and growth. Garnet is a birthstone for all the January born people and is widely known for bringing hope and joy in the life of the wearer. This healing gemstone comes with a bunch of benefits and can also be worn as a gemstone jewelry customized in any form. Its vivid range of colors and hues makes it more valuable and thus preferred by many gem collectors and jewelry lovers.

Purple Garnet Benefits

Like the name, the rarest, graceful, and lovely Purple Garnet stone, has different properties. The greatest benefit of this gemstone is received when it is used in healing therapy and is widely known as a healing gemstone. This gemstone is known to bring positivity, stability, good health and enthusiasm in life, making one feel good about themselves. The wearer has a feeling of calmness and constructiveness with the ability to feel self-reliant and self-composed. An umbalite Garnet is a beneficial healing gemstone that is associated with prominent planets and channelizes the positive energies from the planets into the wearer’s body. The benefits of wearing this rare gemstone are mentioned below:

• Health Benefits

  : A Purple Garnet, is said to heal disturbed blood circulation and also strengthen the heart. It also cures blood deficiency and related diseases. It has the property to reduce the chances of haemorrhages and inflammation while stimulating the haemoglobin count. enhances the strength of the spleen, lungs, and cures injuries to the spine. It also reduces depression and as per ancient beliefs, the Garnet stone protects the wearer from poison.

• Emotional and Physiological Benefits

  : As discussed, Purple Garnet is closely associated with self - growth. Wearing this beautiful gemstone can make one feel self-reluctant and confident. It helps get rid of all the negativity and flaws of oneself making one feel confident and independent. It is said to encourage love, kindness and compassion and also promotes spiritual growth.

• Love and Relationship Benefits

  : A Purple Garnet stone induces passion, fire, energy, stability, and is believed to bring good luck in love and relationships. This is a suitable gemstone for people who seek stability in relationships. Wearing this beautiful yet rare gemstone can help build strong relationships as well.

Purple Garnet Buyer Beware Guidelines

The price of Purple Garnet does increase on the basis of size and weight. The smaller the size, the cheaper it is. There are other quality combinations including origin, color, clarity, cut, and shape which determine the price of the gemstone. A buyer needs to understand that the weight of gemstones in India is usually expressed in Ratti and not in Carat. A buyer must understand the difference between Ratti and Carat. (1 Ratti = 0.91 carat)

A Purple Garnet stone is natural and does not undergo any known treatment or enhancement. However, cutting and polishing of raw Purple Garnet gemstones are done in the labs. If buyers see any enhancements or treatments on this stone, then they can ask for a genuine report from the Gemological Laboratory. The Lab certifications determine the authenticity of the gemstone. Customers should be able to distinguish between real and fake Gem Lab Certifications and always verify the physical characteristics of Purple Garnet stone from Gem Experts and Astrologers. To identify the authenticity of this stone, the customer can cross-check the report number on the Gem Lab certificate from the Gem Lab website or the company lab. If both the report numbers are alike, then it is an authentic Purple Garnet gemstone certification.

Purple Garnet Quality

Purple Garnet is desired and valued for its vivid purple hue with red flashes that displays a color change from grape to cranberry with magenta flashes, vitreous luster, brilliance, and elegance. The best quality of Purple Garnet bears an extremely good color with perfect saturation and good transparency. Its amazing lustre and exceptionally brilliance make it highly in demand. However, certain factors determine the quality of a Purple Garnet gemstone. Origin, Color, Clarity, Cut, and Carat weight are some of the most important ones. Based on these factors the price of this gemstone is determined.

• Origin

  : Purple Garnet is a highly rare gemstone. The finest and the best quality gemstone is found in East Africa - Mozambique. Discovered quite recently, this gemstone is hard to find. The other locations where this rare variety of Garnet is found are India, Tanzania, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. However, one has to consider shopping from authentic and reliable resources so that they do not purchase anything unreal.

• Color

  : Purple Garnet is treasured for its alluring change in color. It is one of the most important factors that one has to consider. It has a mesmerizing vivid purple hue with red flashes that displays a color change from grape to cranberry with magenta flashes. The dramatic deep purple color with attractive red flashes along with the excellent brilliance makes this gemstone more valuable. To a layman, this gemstone might look similar to Amethyst, but it's actually not. The lively purple tone shares a resemblance with delicious grapes and its high refractive index and exceptional brilliance have helped this gemstone gather a huge popularity in quite short notice. A gemstone with relatively higher color saturation and minimum inclusions is highly appreciated and also draws a higher price in the market.

• Clarity

  : An Umbalite Garnet belongs to the Type II category, which makes it obvious that inclusions would be visible. However, one has to consider that with the saturated deep color and small size, many might find this gemstone eye clean and inclusion free. Also, one has to consider that this gemstone is valued for its vivid range of colors and with the more inclusions visible the quality of color tends to degrade and can also reduce its value.

• Cut

  : Cut is yet another important aspect that needs to be considered before purchasing a Purple Garnet. However, cuts of Purple Garnet gemstone depend on the presence of accurate color saturation and also its ability to be free from any kind of inclusions. Ideally, this gemstone is found with standard cuts and shapes, some of the common ones would be round, oval, pear, cushion and more.

• Carat

  : This rare gemstone is commonly found in smaller sizes. It has to be noted that it is hard to find Purple Garnet in bigger sizes i.e, 4 Carat+ and for even more bigger sizes i.e, 5 Carat and above is extremely rare.