2.8" Garnet Cluster with Feldspar and Mica - 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 patches of mica and a very small amount of epidote can be found on one end of this specimen. The pale green/white feldspar can be seen along the bottom, as well as around some of the edges of this association of minerals.

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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SPECIES
Garnet, Mica & Feldspar
LOCATION
Raskoh,Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan
SIZE
2.8" long, 1.6" wide
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#38703