1.8" Orange Grossular Garnet Cluster - Bishop, California

This is a 1.8" wide specimen that's covered in orange grossular garnets, collected from the the Tungsten Hills of Inyo County, California. Comes with an acrylic display case.

Garnets are nesosilicates with the general formula X3Y2(SiO4)3. Garnets come in many species, including pyrope, almandine (the most common species), spessartine, uvarovite, andradite and grossular, varieties of which are hessonite, cinnamon-stone, and tsavorite. Garnets are found in a wide variety of colors including red, orange, yellow, green, purple, brown, blue, black, pink, and colorless, though reddish shades are the most common.


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DETAILS
SPECIES
Grossular Garnet
LOCATION
Bishop, Tungsten Hills, Inyo county, California
SIZE
1.8 x 1.2"
CATEGORY
ITEM
#131345