Tsavorite is an attractive green grossular garnet with a golden- green light that draws it. It is exclusively found in Eastern African with the only deposits found in Tanzania, Kenyan and Madagascar.
Tsavorite is an attractive green variety of grossular garnet. It was discovered in northeastern Tanzania in 1967 by Campbell Bridges, a British geologist. Tsavorite gets its name for the near by Tsavo River and the Tsavo National Game Reserve. The color of the stone can be a rich pure green, a yellowish green or bluish green. Combine that lush green color with exceptional clarity, stir in a hardness that makes it ultra-wearable and then add the indefinable... that certain something that seems to burn within the stone. It's a golden-green light,