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Garnet – January’s Birthstone and the Beauty of the Red Gemstone

Garnet January's Birthstone

Garnet is January’s birthstone, a deep, rich red gemstone celebrated for its dark red colour, transparency, and inexpensive appeal. Most sources of this gemstone are sedimentary rocks with high aluminium content, such as shale. To explain, the rock metamorphoses under high heat and pressure, forming.  Garnets throughout time A colourful history spanning cultures and civilisations. Its Read the full article…

About Mark Johnson

Mark founded Isle of Wight jewellers Serendipity Diamonds in 2007 after a career on the polished diamonds industry. Today he works in the Serendipity showroom, helping clients with jewellery, creating handmade designs and updating their two jewellery websites SerendipityDiamonds.com and Isle-of-Wight-Jewellery.co.uk