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You know by now that my favorite color is 'orange' but there's actually many different shades of orange like the picture above is my fancy vivid yellow  orange diamond or aptly described as citrus orange which is my favoritw shade of orange. However orange diamonds are extremely rare & extremely expensive too especially those with vivid pure orange colors. So what I'm about to show you now are the next best alternatives to orange diamonds! Fanta Orange Spessartine or Mandarin Garnet are pure tangerine orange specimens such as this one above is the most valuable highly prized spessartine garnet followed by yellowish orange such as the one below. Though I tend to prefer the yellowish orange varities bcoz many pure orange garnets looks darker & I like bright colors and the yellow overtone of the spessartine garnet below gives it a brighter appearance. What's great about spessartine garnet is that it is singly refractive like diamonds so it is the clo...