2.7" Garnet Cluster with Feldspar and Epidote- Pakistan

This garnet centered specimen comes from a location in Pakistan, where associations of deep orange/brown garnets, feldspar, golden mica, green epidote, and calcite are typically found. The garnets from this location display a unique pattern, which can be seen along the faces of the crystals when rotated under light.

Small light and dark green epidote crystals can be found stemming from the superior portion of this mineral specimen. Microscopic translucent epidote crystals give some portions of this garnet cluster specimen a druzy appearance. On the inferior side of the garnet cluster is a bed of feldspar matrix, along with a crack along the specimen that has been stabilized.

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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DETAILS
SPECIES
Garnet, Epidote & Feldspar
LOCATION
Raskoh, Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan
SIZE
2.7" long, 2.5" wide
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#38752