2.05" Red Almandine Garnet in Schist - Tyrol, Austria

Red Almandine Garnet in Schist - Tyrol, Austria #280514

This is a beautiful, 2.05" wide almandine garnet that has been exposed from the schist matrix it was found in. It was collected from the famous Granatenkogel North Slope of Tyrol, Austria, a location that's well known for its large and fascinating garnet specimens. The garnet is in its rough state and hasn't undergone any of the buffing or polishing seen on most specimens.

It comes with an acrylic display stand.

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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