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
Garnet, California the rental vacancy rate was 10.3%. 4,932 people (65.4% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 2,606 people (34.5%) lived in rental housing units. Garnet, California Garnet is a census-designated place in Riverside County, California. Garnet sits at an elevation of . The 2010 United States census reported Garnet's population was 7,543. In 1875 Garnet was a railroad station for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Since then it has had various names: Palms (original name), Seven Palms (1889), Palm Springs (1900), Pierce (1906), Gray (1917), Noria (1918), and finally Garnet (1923). According to the United States Census Bureau, the