2.2" Gemmy Garnet, Feldspar, and Mica Association - Pakistan

Gemmy Garnet, Feldspar, and Mica Association - Pakistan #213418

This garnet centered specimen comes from a location in Pakistan, where associations of deep orange/brown garnets, feldspar, golden mica, green epidote, calcite and albite are typically found. The garnets from this location display a unique pattern, which can be seen along the faces of the crystals when rotated under light.

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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