5.7" Large Red Pyrope Garnets in Quartz - Madagascar

Large Red Pyrope Garnets in Quartz - Madagascar #175915

These are large red pyrope garnets that are partially exposed from the quartz matrix they were found in. The entire specimen measures 5.7" x 3.8" and the largest garnet is 1.4" wide! It was collected from the Fianarantsoa Province of Madagascar.

This specimen has been mounted to an acrylic display base.

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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