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Grossular Garnet Var. Hessonite

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A fine sparkling druse of Hessonite Garnet covers many of areas on this specimen from the Ala Valley in Italy. Lustrous crystals measuring to 4 mm are richly intergrown on a light coloured matrix. Hessonite crystals are associated with characteristic silver-green worm-like books of hexagonal Clinochlore crystals. An admirable and aesthetic specimen from this famously mineralised area of Italy.

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Species
Garnet, Grossular, HessoniteAbout Garnet →
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions7.8 x 6.1 x 3.0 cm
Listed on10/24/2024
Locality
Italy, Piedmont, Ala ValleyRegional guide →
SKUCC3864

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Garnet from Ala Valley, Piedmont, Italy
Ala Valley garnet is one of the great European Alpine classics: not a single look, but a family of orange-red hessonite, brown-red grossular-andradite, and small yellow andradite/topazolite crystals formed in the rodingites of the Lanzo Valleys. The finest specimens have an unmistakable association—glossy cinnamon to hyacinth-red garnet spread over pale green diopside, often with clinochlore—so distinctive that old European specimens are commonly recognizable at a glance.