Padparadscha color Mahenge Garnet

[Zannie217]

As suggested by Chrono, I've began a new thread with details of and a picture of my new ring. I had questioned if anyone had ever heard of a garnet listed as "padparadscha color" before. It's not the greatest picture but it gives you an idea. It's 1.57 Mahenge garnet round, 0.51 ctw. Diamond, 14K white gold 2.84 gr.

 

[chrono]

It's really blurry. Do you have a zoom feature?

 

[Sungura]

Jeff at Earth’s Treasury sometimes uses the word “padpardscha” in the description of his orangey-pink mahenge garnets. The image below shows an example of a current listing



The term Mahenge refers to the location where they garnets were mined. That is near Mahege Ward, Ulanga District in the Morogoro Region of Tanzania. I lived close to that district in Tanzania so I just love typing those familiar words. Lol

If you can take a better picture of your ring we would love to see it. What does the color look like to you?

 

[T L]

Yes, there are padparadcha colored garnets, as well as spinels. They’re a more affordable option to the real thing. Some spinels are dead ringers for true padparadcha sapphires.

I hope you get better pics.

 

[junebug17]

Yes, would love to see some clearer pics!

 

[mellowyellowgirl]

Do look at spinels as well. There are some really good imitation pad spinels.

This is mine and I think it's fairly close to the real thing minus the price tag.