Description
UVAROVITE CRYSTALS
This is the cluster of green uvarovite crystals on chromite. Dimensions: 1.7 x 1.2 x 0.4″ (4.3 x 3 x 1cm). Weight – 2.8oz (79 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.
