Description
UVAROVITE CABOCHON
This is the green uvarovite cabochon. Dimensions: 0.8 x 0.4 x 0.1″ (2 x 1.1 x 0.2cm). Weight – 0.1oz (2 grams). Origin: Russia, Ural.
Some information about uvarovite:
Uvarovite is a chromium-bearing garnet group species. It discovered in 1832 by Germain Henri Hess who named it after Count Sergei Uvarov (1765–1855), a Russian statesman and amateur mineral collector.
Uvarovite is the rarest of the common members of the garnet group, and is the only consistently green garnet species, with an emerald-green color. It occurs as well-formed fine-sized crystals.
