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This is a Moyo Gem. Moyo Gems is a responsible miner-to-market gemstone collaboration born in East Africa. They work with women artisanal gem miners (and their male allies!) in Tanzania and Kenya to track rubies, sapphires, tourmaline, garnets, citrines, and amethysts, from miner to market.
They work to empower women miners to work safely, mine better, improve financial security, and create stable, equitable markets for fair trade.
Garnet traces its roots to the Nile Delta in 3100 B.C., where Egyptian artisans crafted the gemstone into beads or laid them into hand-wrought jewelry. This gem, whose name is derived from the Greek “granatum,” reminded the ancients of the ruby pearls of the pomegranate. In centuries past, garnets were thought to light up the night and offer protection from nightmares. Travelers carried garnet to protect against misfortune when far from home.
Today, garnet is beloved around the world not only for its fiery colors, but for brilliance that spans the entire color spectrum. -AGTA
Spessartine garnets come in a range of oranges, my favorite being this brilliant yellowish orange.
I am an authorized Fairmined precious metals licensee. Fairmined is an assurance label that certifies gold from empowered responsible artisanal and small-scale mining organizations. It transforms mining into an active force for good, ensuring social development and environmental protection, providing everyone with a source of gold to be proud of.
