3.9" Giant, Faceted, Polished Almandine Garnet

This is a giant, 3.9" of deep-red/brown almandine garnet that has been faceted and polished.

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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SPECIES
Garnet var. Almandine
LOCATION
India
SIZE
3.9" wide
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ITEM
#243087