Garnet
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Garnets - an extremely large family of minerals with many chemical and jewelry varieties and trade names. The basic varieties of this mineral are:
- Almandine (deep red, brown red to black)
- Pyrope (red, pink red, blood red and sometimes colorless.)
- Spessartine (from yellow, red to brown)
- Andradite (yellow, red, brown, black - demantoid green)
- Grossular ( yellow, orange, red, brown, black can be colorless )
- Uvarovite (green)
It is extremely rare to form pure large crystals. They are usually small and not always well educated.
For centuries, garnets have been used in jewelry as e.g. crown stones. Used as collector minerals.