1.78" Red Almandine Garnet - Tyrol, Austria

Red Almandine Garnet - Tyrol, Austria #209535

This is a beautiful, 1.78" wide almandine garnet that has been removed from its schist matrix. 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. Unlike many of the specimens from this location, it hasn't been buffed or polished, and has instead been left in its rough state.

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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