Juicy Umba River Valley natural color shift Malaya Garnet(.32tcw, VVS, Africa) and natural Champagne Diamonds hand set in a sterling silver setting. Vary rare Malaya color shift Garnet is a juicy pomegranate red in sunlight shifting to a delicious Acai Berry purple/red in fluorescent light. Encircled by 8 sparkling natural Champagne Diamonds. Malaia garnet or Malaya garnet is a gemological varietal name for light to dark pinkish orange, reddish orange, or yellowish orange garnet, that are a mixture of pyrope and spessartite. It is found in east Africa, in the Umba Valley bordering Tanzania and Kenya. Malaia was at first believed to be a type of spessartite garnet. During the 1970's rough malaia garnets were being mixed with parcels of Rhodolite garnet being offered for sale. These odd color stones were rejected, and the name given to this type of garnet was Malaia, which is a Swahili word meaning outcast. It came into usage for a number of garnets that did not fit into any of the standard categories. Most imperial malaia garnets have microscopic needle-like inclusions that do not detract from the overall beauty of this material. Some of them exhibit a color-shift effect from flourescent to incandescent light.Color change garnets are mostly pyrope and spessartite in composition. Except for the color change, they are identical in properties to the Malaia variety. Their primary source is Africa. This ring can be precious metal wrapped.Please ask question Certification available $65 (This is at my cost)