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2" Gemmy Hessonite Garnets and Clinochlore Association - Italy
This is a 2" wide association of gemmy, red-orange hessonite garnets and clinochlore, collected from Pellice Valley in Piedmont, Italy. The garnets are extremely lustrous and contrast nicely against the green clinochlore encrusted matrix.
It has been mounted to an acrylic display base with mineral tack.
It has been mounted to an acrylic display base with mineral tack.
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.
SPECIES
Grossular var. Hessonite & Clinochlore
LOCATION
Villar Pellice, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
SIZE
2 x 1.5"
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#208753
