Garnet as gemstones. The gemstone varieties occur in shades of green, red, yellow, and orange. In the US it is known as the birthstone for January. It is the state mineral of Connecticut, New York's gemstone, and star garnet (garnet with rutile asterisms) is the state gemstone of Idaho. Garnet sand is a good abrasive, and a common replacement for silica sand in sand blasting. Alluvial garnet grains which are rounder are more suitable for such blasting treatments. Mixed with very high pressure water, garnet is used to cut steel and other materials in water jets. For water jet cutting, garnet
Gemstone Healer Gemstone Healer Gemstone Healer is a computer action adventure game created by Canadian developer Paradigm Creators and published in 1986 by Strategic Simulations. It was developed by Trouba Gossen (who was also responsible for the graphics), Peter Lount (design and programming); with assistance by Kevin Pickell (porting to C-64). It is a sequel to "Gemstone Warrior". "Gemstone Healer" is a 2D action adventure title with the player controlling an armored figure that they would move from area to area in search of treasure and the way to heal the Gemstone. It uses cellular automata to generate maps. The game takes