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GARNET
MYTH:
Garnets are said to provide guidance and protection at night; they shield from nightmares. 
Garnets also enhance strength and endurance; they reduce swelling and joint inflammation. 
Garnet has been dubbed the gem of faith, constancy and truth.
Asiatic tribes carved garnets into bullets in the belief that their fiery color would inflict more deadly wounds. They were ground into powder for the treatment of fever or jaundice. If the cure didn't work, the apothecary was accused of using an imitation.
Garnets are durable gems, usually dark red in color but also comes in many different shades.
  The most brilliant is the tsavorite garnet, (shown right).  It is actually more rare and has a more vivid green than emeralds.  These stones are rich in calcium--seams of marble lace through them.
  Tsavorites were disovered in 1968 in Tanzania and Kenya. 
Hundreds of millions of years ago, this land was covered by the ocean.  Layers of organic sediment were deposited, eventually forming shale. Then the land was subjected to intense heat and pressure, folding and uplifting, metamorphically changing the ocean floor into new minerals. This twisting and torturing of the rocks gave birth to the unusual gemstones of East Africa, many colored by the vanadium which is plentiful in these rocks because of their organic history in the ocean floor. 
 

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