gem GARNET var. GROSSULAR, WOLLASTONITE


Specimen: #12164
Locality: Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Quebec, Canada
Size: 75mm x 46mm x 20mm
Size description: Small Cabinet
Shipping: USA 12.80, Canada 11.80, Worldwide 18.90, China via UPS 33.00 (USD)
Status: SOLD

Rare Grossular Garnets with varying color and associated with Wollastonite. The Garnet crystals are extremely glassy, transparent, gem quality with superb luster and from colorless to pinkish-cram. Perfect rhombohedral crystal habit. White hair like Wollastonite grows around. The color is very tender and combined with the excellent gemminess make it remarkable specimen from this closed mine. For references see the issue of The Mineralogical Record vol. 44, # 4.  In superb condition.

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gem GARNET var. GROSSULAR, WOLLASTONITE

gem GARNET var. GROSSULAR, WOLLASTONITE

gem GARNET var. GROSSULAR, WOLLASTONITE

gem GARNET var. GROSSULAR, WOLLASTONITE

gem GARNET var. GROSSULAR, WOLLASTONITE