2.7" Garnet Cluster with Calcite, Epidote and Feldspar - Pakistan

Garnet Cluster with Calcite, Epidote and Feldspar - Pakistan #38728

This garnet centered specimen comes from a location in Pakistan, where associations of deep orange/brown garnets, feldspar, golden mica, green epidote, and calcite 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.

Small single epidote crystals can be found slightly protruding from some locations on the garnet cluster. A pale green/white feldspar, calcite, and epidote aggregate can be seen along side the main garnet cluster, as well as a coating of feldspar across the bottom half of the entire specimen.

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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