3.6" Hessonite Garnets in Calcite - Harts Ranges, Australia

Hessonite Garnets in Calcite - Harts Ranges, Australia #130667

This is a 3.6" wide specimen that's covered in red-orange hessonite garnets, collected from the Harts Ranges within the Northern Territory of Australia. Hessonite garnets are a variety of grossular garnet. The largest garnet on this specimen is .68" long.

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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