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4.3" Lustrous Black Garnets with Blue Calcite - Mexico
This is a gorgeous association of black-brown garnets and blue calcite. When collected, the garnets were completely encapsulated in calcite and have since been exposed by acid etching. This specimen was labeled as coming from Mexico, however we have not been able to independently verify this.
It comes with an acrylic display stand.
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.
