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Mystery stones from Brazil-help needed with identification

Drahokam

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I was given a box of stones a family member brought from Brazil in 1970-1974 when he was there building petroleum pipelines. Couple amethysts, and some red / brown maybe garnets.

The ones i am wondering about are in the attached photos. The yellow stone is a pale warm yellow, black reflections are from my phone.
The orange stone is orange with some brown, has nice glow, all black spots are from the phone.
The white stone- not much sparkle, i am not sure if CZ would have been an option back in early 1970.

thank you!

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Just some rough guesses.
Orange is most likely garnet and deepening on size and which type might be $$$
hessonite $ spessartite $$$
The rest are likely Beryl.
 
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Just some rough guesses.
Orange is most likely garnet and deepening on size and which type might be $$$
hessonite $ spessartite $$$
The rest are likely Beryl.

Thank you Karl, i appreciate it. The orange one is 11x9mm. It has significantly more brown than my spess but the color is pleasing.
 
Thank you Karl, i appreciate it. The orange one is 11x9mm. It has significantly more brown than my spess but the color is pleasing.
Nice size and it looks nice.
The color between the 2 can overlap in the brown/orange or orange/brown range so just going by color is not conclusive in that color range.
 
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