decent money with garnets?

[rich99ard]

Hi all, fairly new to forum here...

thought I'd throw this out to all Prospectors: Have you made decent money with found garnets? anyone hit the motherload of garnets?


rich99ard

 

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[Hoser John]

Multi colored garnets look great in the glass pendants and throw in a few flakes for razzle and the wow factor rises and sales are ez to do. Many sellers and ez to do-John

 

[Clay Diggins]

Cut, relatively clear garnets sell for about $5 a carat retail. Wholesale about $1.50 a carat.

If you have a rare garnet like a good sized Tsarovite you could get more. Very unlikely that you will find one of any size - they really are rare.

Garnets are very common worldwide. The cost of the cut "gem" is more about the cost to cut it than about the value of the rough stone. If you can cut garnets yourself and you have a ready supply of quality garnet rough you could get prices like this. I seriously doubt you could pay for materials much less labor at those prices.

John had the best idea to get value for garnets. Sell them as part of the natural gems you found with the gold you are selling.

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[goldenIrishman]

If Garnets were worth anything I'd retire from mining with what I've found already! I've got tons of them. I've got an art project in mind for them and that's the only reason I've saved what I've got.

 

[Hoser John]

Around Coarsegold in the southern end of he motherlode off Hi Way 49, they abound in a dozen colors-John

 

[Goldwasher]

I know a place near Bishop California you can find then the size of ping pong balls........broke in half..........but every once in a while a round beauty. .....or multiple in matrix......most valuable way to sell those ones

 

[GoldpannerDave]

Cut, relatively clear garnets sell for about $5 a carat retail. Wholesale about $1.50 a carat.

If you have a rare garnet like a good sized Tsarovite you could get more. Very unlikely that you will find one of any size - they really are rare.

Garnets are very common worldwide. The cost of the cut "gem" is more about the cost to cut it than about the value of the rough stone. If you can cut garnets yourself and you have a ready supply of quality garnet rough you could get prices like this. I seriously doubt you could pay for materials much less labor at those prices.

John had the best idea to get value for garnets. Sell them as part of the natural gems you found with the gold you are selling.

Heavy Pans

Some on your link are gorgeous. I have never found any that size and clear. Just small (pinhead-sized) clear ones.

Thanks for the info.