Published October 2025 • Read Time: 5 minutes
Grossular Garnets can be green, pink, orange, yellow, or white. Pink Grossular Garnets are sometimes known as “Raspberry Garnet,” but be aware that nickname is sometimes used for Rhodolite Garnets too. Rosolite Garnet, meaning “Rose Garnet” is a type of Pink Grossular Garnet found in northeastern Mexico. All Grossular Garnets are fantastic for abundance and prosperity, but the pink gems specifically encourage an abundance of love and friendship. They joyfully invite us to share good vibes with everyone we meet and to make the world a better place.
Pink Grossular Garnet Healing Energy
Spiritual Healing Properties
Pink Grossular Garnet teaches us that the greatest treasure of all is love. A person who is wealthy in love counts both the quantity and the quality, to include our closest relationships as well as the casual good vibes we share with acquaintances. Wherever we feel a positive connection with another, we add to our bounty. Pink Grossular Garnet is a joyful and generous stone that helps us to see the beauty all around us. It reminds us that we are blessed and that we get to bless others. This isn’t a moralistic lesson that we “should” be good to others, it is a ecstatic revelation that we get to! It invites us to be open-handed, ready to give and to receive, with whatever challenges and opportunities life offers us. To happily greet each day, knowing we might meet new friends and that we will have a chance to do some good in the world. Pink Grossular Garnet helps us to feel playfully grounded in the world and full of a zest for life.
Emotional Healing Properties
Pink Grossular Garnet has an easy-breezing energy that encourages us to relax, while also inviting us to be excited about the life we’re living. If we feel inadequate or anxious, it helps us to look at ourselves and life from a kinder and more sensible perspective. It gently helps to stop catastrophizing or blowing things out of proportion. Instead of focusing on what might go wrong in the future, Pink Grossular Garnet asks us to focus on what good we can do right now. How can we be of service? How can we make someone else’s life a little bit easier? What will coax a smile or make someone laugh? This doesn’t mean we give to others and deplete ourselves or deny our own feelings. This giving is a joyful choice to shine brightly in the world. It is an active conscious choice to be a source of goodness that multiplies and blesses. Pink Grossular Garnet is a wonderful stone for encouraging all form of love, as well as humanitarian impulses. It is a great choice for anyone involved in causes that seek to expand the social contract, to uplift the lives of all.
Mental Healing Properties
Pink Grossular Garnet invites us to live a more vibrant and fulfilling life. If we have old ideas and habits that hold us back, Pink Grossular Garnet will tease us until we laugh and let them go. It is a stone of new beginnings and freedom, and it is eager to see us grow and thrive. When we have big emotions, it helps us to keep calm and look at things logically and with emotional intelligence. If something is wrong, it encourages us to seek justice and to fight for what is right. It remind us that an injustice done to one person, is an injustice done to all of society. Pink Grossular Garnet asks us to join with other likeminded folks to uplift society and make a heaven here on earth. It teaches us that alone we may be small, but together we can be a mighty force of goodness.
Physical Healing Properties
Pink Grossular Garnet is a fantastic stone for exploring the effects of stress on the physical body. Short-term stress is a part of life and the physiological effects are meant are meant to help us handle threats. Pink Grossular Garnet reminds us to be kind to our body following short-term stress to help our body discharge the stress and return to equilibrium. Unfortunately, while long-term stress can also be a part of life, the physiological effects are quite damaging. Pink Grossular Garnet is an especially good talisman to help sooth and heal the stress impacts on the cardiovascular system, including high blood pressure and high blood sugar, as well as elevated heartbeat. It encourages us to reduce long-term stress by whatever means necessary, and to get more rest, eat well, and exercise. These things are rarely easy to do, but Pink Grossular Garnet acts as an enthusiastic cheerleader helping us to do what is needed so that we can have a better life and a healthier body.
Geology of Grossular Garnet
Where does Pink Grossular Garnet come from?
Garnets are found worldwide and Grossular Garnets are mined in North America, Eurasia, and Africa. The majority of Pink Grossular Garnet come from either Coahuila, Mexico and Quebec, Canada. There is also a deposit in Kenya, most likely in the southern region, but possibly in the eastern Rift Valley.
Mining and Treatments
Pink Garnets are a rare secondary mineral. It has been minded in open pit asbestos mines in Canada, as well as artisanal mines in Mexico and Kenya.
Lab-created Garnets exist and are occasionally used in fine jewelry. But the majority of Garnets are natural, enhanced only by cutting and polishing.
Pink Grossular Garnet
Mineral Family
The Garnet Family is a group of 15 silicate minerals. Silicates are minerals which contain the elements Silicon (a light gray shiny metal) and Oxygen (a colorless gas). Together, these two elements form a tetrahedron – a shape similar to a pyramid – with a Silicon atom in the center and Oxygen atoms at each of the four corners. These tetrahedra connect with other chemical structures, in six different ways, to form various minerals and rocks. There are six main groups of Silicate minerals, and these main groups are further subdivided into secondary subdivisions, such as Quartz and Garnet. Almandine Garnet is the most common variety and is always dark red. Grossular Garnet is more rare and comes in a variety of colors.
Pink Grossular Garnet’s energy works well with its family – other garnets. Try it in combination with Almandine, Andradite, Pyrope, Spessartine and Uvarovite. Try it also with other colors of Grossular, such as Green Garnet or orange Hessonite Garnet.
Grossular Garnet Formation and Crystal Associates
Garnets can be formed in igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. Grossular Garnet is formed in contact metamorphized limestones and is usually green. Pink Grossular Garnets get their rosy coloring from manganese, the same element that gives Rhodonite its pink color.
Pink Grossular Garnet’s energy works well with its “friends” – crystal associates formed in the same geological environment. Try it in combination with Prehnite, Serpentine, and Vesuvianite
| Mineralogy | Pink Grossular Garnet |
|---|---|
| Chemical Formula | Ca3Al2(SiO4)3 |
| Cleavage | None |
| Color | Pink |
| Crystal System | Cubic |
| Form/Habit | Dodecahedral, trapezohedral |
| Fracture | Conchoidal, brittle |
| Hardness – Mohs Scale | 6.5-7.5 |
| Luminescence | None |
| Luster | Vitreous |
| Mineral Family | Garnet Group |
| Specific Gravity | 3.49-3.68 |
| Streak | White |
| Transparency | Transparent to opaque |
History of Pink Grossular Garnet
Garnet has one of the oldest and most detailed historical traditions of any healing stone. It is included in virtually every known lapidary, texts which describe gemstones and their powers. Originally, the term “Garnet” was only used for the reddish varieties, Almandine and Pyrope and did not include Grossular Garnets. The name Garnet comes from the Latin words granum or granitus, meaning grain or seeds. These words in turn have an even older origin, coming from the Phonecian punica granatum, meaning “pomegranate seeds.” The reference refers to more than just the glowing red color and common shape of Almandine and Pyrope Garnets. Interestingly, when found in matrix, Garnets often cluster much like pomegranate seeds do.
The name Grossular comes from the botanical name for the gooseberry, or grossularia, which has the same yellow-green shade as the Grossular Garnets found in Siberia. In some geological literature, the name Grossularite will be used instead. According to the International Mineralogical Association, “Grossular” is the correct name. Grossular Garnet comes a variety of colors including green, orange, yellow, white, and pink.
The most vibrant and fabulous Pink Grossular Garnets are found in the Sierra de Cruces mountains in Coahuila, Mexico. They were introduced to the market in the 1950s by George Burnham (1914-2008), an American mineral-dealer who traveled around the world and worked with artisanal miners. Burnham was an old-school rockhound who started field-collecting as a child and continued to actively run his mineral business for over 60 years.
In order to protect the exact location of the Pink Grossular Garnet deposit so that it wouldn’t be overrun, Burnham labeled the Garnets as being from “Lake Jaco,” a large shallow lake, which is a dry lakebed part of the year, which could be seen from the top of one of the mountains near the deposit. While the more accurate locality has been known for many years, Pink Grossular Garnets are still often labeled as being from “Lake Jaco.”
Moonrise Crystals searched for photos of Lake Jaco and the Sierra de Cruces mountains, but perhaps in keeping with the tradition of hiding the location of the Pink Grossular Garnets, no photo could be found. The lake and mountain are somewhere in Sierra Mojada, near the border between Coahuila and Chihuahua. Coahuila is the top mining state in Mexico and produces 95% of the country’s coal. Sierra Mojada is poor in coal, but rich in Silver, Lead, and Zinc. The Pink Grossular Garnets are found in a Zinc deposit.
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