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(1998) Connoisseur's Choice: Uvarovite, Outokumpu, Finland. \u003Ci>Rocks & Minerals\u003C\u002Fi>,  73 (2). 126-128 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1080\u002F00357529809603048'>doi:10.1080\u002F00357529809603048\u003C\u002Fa>","10.1080\u002F00357529809603048",{"id":260,"year":261,"html":262,"doi":11},16204054,1999,"Proenza, J., Solé, J., & Melgarejo, J. C. (1999). Uvarovite in podiform chromitite; the Moa-Baracoa ophiolitic massif, Cuba. The Canadian Mineralogist, 37(3), 679-690.",{"id":264,"year":265,"html":266,"doi":11},16967917,2001,"(2001) Uvarovite. \u003Ci>Handbook of Mineralogy\u003C\u002Fi>. Mineralogical Society of America \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fwww.handbookofmineralogy.org\u002Fpdfs\u002Fuvarovite.pdf' class='refpdflink'>\u003C\u002Fa>",{"id":268,"year":265,"html":269,"doi":270},394327,"Andrut, Michael, Wildner, Manfred (2001) The crystal chemistry of birefringent natural uvarovites: Part I. Optical investigations and UV-VIS-IR absorption spectroscopy. \u003Ci>American Mineralogist\u003C\u002Fi>,  86 (10) 1219-1230 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.2138\u002Fam-2001-1010'>doi:10.2138\u002Fam-2001-1010\u003C\u002Fa>","10.2138\u002Fam-2001-1010",{"id":272,"year":265,"html":273,"doi":274},394328,"Wildner, Manfred, Andrut, Michael (2001) The crystal chemistry of birefringent natural uvarovites: Part II. Single-crystal X-ray structures. \u003Ci>American Mineralogist\u003C\u002Fi>,  86 (10) 1231-1251 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.2138\u002Fam-2001-1011'>doi:10.2138\u002Fam-2001-1011\u003C\u002Fa> \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Frruff.info\u002Fdoclib\u002Fam\u002Fvol86\u002FAM86_1231.pdf' class='refpdflink'>\u003C\u002Fa>","10.2138\u002Fam-2001-1011",{"id":276,"year":277,"html":278,"doi":279},152946,2002,"Andrut, M., Wildner, M. (2002) The crystal chemistry of birefringent natural uvarovites. Part III. Application of the superposition model of crystal fields with a characterization of synthetic cubic uvarovite. \u003Ci>Physics and Chemistry of Minerals\u003C\u002Fi>,  29 (9) 595-608 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1007\u002Fs00269-002-0264-4'>doi:10.1007\u002Fs00269-002-0264-4\u003C\u002Fa>","10.1007\u002Fs00269-002-0264-4",{"id":281,"year":277,"html":282,"doi":283},128162,"Andrut, Michael, Wildner, Manfred, Beran, Anton (2002) The crystal chemistry of birefringent natural uvarovites. Part IV. OH defect incorporation mechanisms in non-cubic garnets derived from polarized IR spectroscopy. \u003Ci>European Journal of Mineralogy\u003C\u002Fi>,  14 (6) 1019-1026 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1127\u002F0935-1221\u002F2002\u002F0014-1019'>doi:10.1127\u002F0935-1221\u002F2002\u002F0014-1019\u003C\u002Fa>","10.1127\u002F0935-1221\u002F2002\u002F0014-1019",{"id":285,"year":286,"html":287,"doi":288},395004,2004,"Diella, Valeria, Sani, Alessandra, Levy, Davide, Pavese, Alessandro (2004) High-pressure synchrotron X-ray diffraction study of spessartine and uvarovite: A comparison between different equation of state models. \u003Ci>American Mineralogist\u003C\u002Fi>,  89 (2) 371-376 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.2138\u002Fam-2004-2-317'>doi:10.2138\u002Fam-2004-2-317\u003C\u002Fa>","10.2138\u002Fam-2004-2-317",{"id":290,"year":291,"html":292,"doi":293},395269,2005,"Klemme, S., Miltenburg, J.C. van, Javorsky, P., Wastin, F. (2005) Thermodynamic properties of uvarovite garnet (Ca3Cr2Si3O12). \u003Ci>American Mineralogist\u003C\u002Fi>,  90 (4). 663-666 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.2138\u002Fam.2005.1812'>doi:10.2138\u002Fam.2005.1812\u003C\u002Fa> \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Frruff.info\u002Fdoclib\u002Fam\u002Fvol90\u002FAM90_663.pdf' class='refpdflink'>\u003C\u002Fa>","10.2138\u002Fam.2005.1812",{"id":295,"year":291,"html":296,"doi":297},153202,"Chopelas, Anastasia (2005) Single crystal Raman spectrum of uvarovite, Ca3Cr2Si3O12. \u003Ci>Physics and Chemistry of Minerals\u003C\u002Fi>,  32 (8) 525-530 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1007\u002Fs00269-005-0014-5'>doi:10.1007\u002Fs00269-005-0014-5\u003C\u002Fa>","10.1007\u002Fs00269-005-0014-5",{"id":299,"year":300,"html":301,"doi":302},8907083,2007,"PARTHASARTHY, G., SRINIVASAN, R., MUKHERJEE, G. D., BANSAL, C., CHATTERJEE, ASHOK (2007) THERMAL EXPANSION STUDY OF A UVAROVITE RICH GARNET. \u003Ci>International Journal of Modern Physics B\u003C\u002Fi>, 21 (11). 1915-1922 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1142\u002Fs0217979207037107'>doi:10.1142\u002Fs0217979207037107\u003C\u002Fa>","10.1142\u002Fs0217979207037107",{"id":304,"year":305,"html":306,"doi":307},153414,2008,"Taran, M. N., Langer, K., Koch-Müller, M. (2008) Pressure dependence of color of natural uvarovite: the barochromic effect. \u003Ci>Physics and Chemistry of Minerals\u003C\u002Fi>,  35 (3) 175-177 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1007\u002Fs00269-007-0209-z'>doi:10.1007\u002Fs00269-007-0209-z\u003C\u002Fa>","10.1007\u002Fs00269-007-0209-z",{"id":309,"year":310,"html":311,"doi":312},396510,2010,"Pal, T., Das, D. (2010) Uvarovite from chromite-bearing ultramafic intrusives, Orissa, India, a crystal-chemical characterization using 57Fe Mossbauer spectroscopy. \u003Ci>American Mineralogist\u003C\u002Fi>,  95 (5) 839-843 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.2138\u002Fam.2010.3328'>doi:10.2138\u002Fam.2010.3328\u003C\u002Fa>","10.2138\u002Fam.2010.3328",{"id":314,"year":315,"html":316,"doi":317},64877,2011,"Ghosh, B., Morishita, T. (2011) Andradite-uvarovite solid solution from hydrothermally altered podiform chromitite, Rutland ophiolite, Andaman, India. \u003Ci>The Canadian Mineralogist\u003C\u002Fi>,  49 (2) 573-580 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.3749\u002Fcanmin.49.2.573'>doi:10.3749\u002Fcanmin.49.2.573\u003C\u002Fa>","10.3749\u002Fcanmin.49.2.573",{"id":319,"year":320,"html":321,"doi":322},397203,2013,"Grew, E. S., Locock, A. J., Mills, S. J., Galuskina, I. O., Galuskin, E. V., Hålenius, U. (2013) Nomenclature of the garnet supergroup. \u003Ci>American Mineralogist\u003C\u002Fi>,  98 (4) 785-811 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.2138\u002Fam.2013.4201'>doi:10.2138\u002Fam.2013.4201\u003C\u002Fa> \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Frruff.info\u002Frruff_1.0\u002Fuploads\u002FAM98_785.pdf' class='refpdflink'>\u003C\u002Fa>","10.2138\u002Fam.2013.4201",{"id":324,"year":325,"html":326,"doi":327},397760,2015,"Fan, D., Xu, J., Ma, M., Wei, S., Zhang, B., Liu, J., Xie, H. (2015) P-V-T equation of state of Ca3Cr2Si3O12 uvarovite garnet by using a diamond-anvil cell and in-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction. \u003Ci>American Mineralogist\u003C\u002Fi>,  100 (2) 588-597 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.2138\u002Fam-2015-5002'>doi:10.2138\u002Fam-2015-5002\u003C\u002Fa>","10.2138\u002Fam-2015-5002",{"id":329,"year":330,"html":331,"doi":332},7736072,2019,"Antao, Sytle M., Salvador, Jeffrey J. (2019) Crystal Chemistry of Birefringent Uvarovite Solid Solutions. \u003Ci>Minerals\u003C\u002Fi>, 9 (7) 395 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.3390\u002Fmin9070395'>doi:10.3390\u002Fmin9070395\u003C\u002Fa> \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mdpi.com\u002F2075-163X\u002F9\u002F7\u002F395\u002Fpdf?version=1561725913' class='refpdflink'>\u003C\u002Fa>","10.3390\u002Fmin9070395",{"id":334,"year":335,"html":336,"doi":337},13007336,2021,"ZHANG, Cong, SHEN, Tingting, ZHANG, Lifei, LIN, Congcong, ZHANG, Zhongwei, Qin, Xueqing, HU, Han, QIU, Tian, XIANG, Zhenqun, ZHANG, Jianxin (2021) The Formation and Evolution of Uvarovite in UHP Serpentinite and Rodingite and its Constraints on Chromium Mobility in the Oceanic Subduction Zone. \u003Ci>Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition\u003C\u002Fi>, 95 (5) 1456-1471 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1111\u002F1755-6724.14805'>doi:10.1111\u002F1755-6724.14805\u003C\u002Fa>","10.1111\u002F1755-6724.14805",{"id":339,"year":340,"html":341,"doi":342},16905762,2023,"Futrzyński, Jacek; Juroszek, Rafał; Skrzyńska, Katarzyna; Vapnik, Yevgeny; Galuskin, Evgeny (2023) Uvarovite from Reduced Native Fe-Bearing Paralava, Hatrurim Complex, Israel. \u003Ci>Lithosphere\u003C\u002Fi>,  2023 (1). lithosphere_2023_214 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.2113\u002F2023\u002Flithosphere_2023_214'>doi:10.2113\u002F2023\u002Flithosphere_2023_214\u003C\u002Fa> \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fpubs.geoscienceworld.org\u002Fgsw\u002Flithosphere\u002Farticle-pdf\u002Fdoi\u002F10.2113\u002F2023\u002Flithosphere_2023_214\u002F5986025\u002Flithosphere_2023_214.pdf' class='refpdflink'>\u003C\u002Fa>","10.2113\u002F2023\u002Flithosphere_2023_214",[344,351,361,367,377,382,391,396,400,410,415,422,430,437,444,453,461,467,474,481,488,494,501,507,516,525,533,541,549,556,562,569,577,582,587,594,599,609,617,625,632,640,648],{"id":345,"source_url":346,"license_code":347,"credit_html":348,"title":7,"description":11,"author":11,"original_width":349,"original_height":350},30906,"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F114967","CC BY 4.0","Photo: Unknown author — http:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby\u002F4.0\u002F, courtesy of \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F114967\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Geology, TalTech\u003C\u002Fa> via Europeana",1000,666,{"id":352,"source_url":353,"license_code":354,"credit_html":355,"title":356,"description":357,"author":358,"original_width":359,"original_height":360},27168,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=4161296","CC BY-SA 2.0","Lysippos 23:33, 3. Jun. 2008 (CEST), via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=4161296\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite russia.jpg","Uvarovite crystal, Russia","Lysippos 23:33, 3. Jun. 2008 (CEST)",9820,9012,{"id":362,"source_url":363,"license_code":364,"credit_html":365,"title":7,"description":11,"author":11,"original_width":349,"original_height":366},30907,"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F160587","CC BY-SA 4.0","Photo: Unknown author — http:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-sa\u002F4.0\u002F, courtesy of \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F160587\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Tartu, Natural History Museum\u003C\u002Fa> via Europeana",882,{"id":368,"source_url":369,"license_code":370,"credit_html":371,"title":372,"description":373,"author":374,"original_width":375,"original_height":376},27169,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=5201867","Public domain","Parent Géry, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=5201867\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite.jpg","crystals of garnet var. uvarovite : Saranovskii Mine (Saranovskoe), Saranovskaya (Sarany) Village, Gornoazavodskii area, Permskaya Oblast’, Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia","Parent Géry",4288,2848,{"id":378,"source_url":379,"license_code":364,"credit_html":380,"title":7,"description":11,"author":11,"original_width":349,"original_height":381},30908,"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F205290","Photo: Unknown author — http:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-sa\u002F4.0\u002F, courtesy of \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F205290\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Tartu, Natural History Museum\u003C\u002Fa> via Europeana",798,{"id":383,"source_url":384,"license_code":370,"credit_html":385,"title":386,"description":387,"author":388,"original_width":389,"original_height":390},84628,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=8174053","Elade53, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=8174053\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Granat (uwarowit) - Saranowskiy Mine, Ural.jpg","Granat (uwarowit) - Saranowskiy Mine, Ural","Elade53",2272,1704,{"id":392,"source_url":393,"license_code":370,"credit_html":394,"title":395,"description":373,"author":374,"original_width":375,"original_height":376},27170,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=8990585","Parent Géry, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=8990585\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite 7 (Russie).jpg",{"id":397,"source_url":398,"license_code":347,"credit_html":399,"title":7,"description":11,"author":11,"original_width":349,"original_height":350},30909,"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F114898","Photo: Unknown author — http:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby\u002F4.0\u002F, courtesy of \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F114898\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Geology, TalTech\u003C\u002Fa> via Europeana",{"id":401,"source_url":402,"license_code":403,"credit_html":404,"title":405,"description":406,"author":407,"original_width":408,"original_height":409},84629,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10139086","CC BY-SA 3.0","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10139086\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite-118217.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FUvarovite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Uvarovite\">Uvarovite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Saranovskii Mine (Saranovskoe), Saranovskaya (Sarany) Village, Gorozavodskii area, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FPerm_Oblast\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Perm Oblast\">Permskaya Oblast'\u003C\u002Fa>, Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia (\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindat.org\u002Floc-2807.html\">Locality at mindat.org\u003C\u002Fa>)\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Size: 8.0 x 4.8 x 0.7 cm.\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>These druses of uvarovite garnets are spectacularly sparkly and bright in person. What makes this one really remarkable is that where usually they appear as a solid druse of small crystals, these are actually isolated on a grey background, so the absolutely jump out at you in a way the average ones do not. Ex. Marty Zinn.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>","Robert M. Lavinsky",600,408,{"id":411,"source_url":412,"license_code":370,"credit_html":413,"title":414,"description":373,"author":374,"original_width":375,"original_height":376},27171,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=8990611","Parent Géry, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=8990611\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite 8 (Russie).jpg",{"id":416,"source_url":417,"license_code":403,"credit_html":418,"title":419,"description":420,"author":407,"original_width":408,"original_height":421},84630,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10154050","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10154050\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite-184657.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FUvarovite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Uvarovite\">Uvarovite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Saranovskii Mine (Saranovskoe), Saranovskaya (Sarany) Village, Gorozavodskii area, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FPerm_Oblast\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Perm Oblast\">Permskaya Oblast'\u003C\u002Fa>, Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia (\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindat.org\u002Floc-2807.html\">Locality at mindat.org\u003C\u002Fa>)\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Size: 6.4 x 5.2 x 1.1 cm.\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>This is a fine plate of Russian uvarovite covered with beautiful crystals, in their typical small size, but incredible luster.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",552,{"id":423,"source_url":424,"license_code":403,"credit_html":425,"title":426,"description":427,"author":407,"original_width":428,"original_height":429},27172,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10158832","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10158832\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite-200516.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FUvarovite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Uvarovite\">Uvarovite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Saranovskii Mine (Saranovskoe), Saranovskaya (Sarany) Village, Gorozavodskii area, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FPerm_Oblast\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Perm Oblast\">Permskaya Oblast'\u003C\u002Fa>, Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia (\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindat.org\u002Floc-2807.html\">Locality at mindat.org\u003C\u002Fa>)\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Size: 6.9 x 5.5 x 0.9 cm.\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>This plate of uvarovite garnets from Russia came out of the personal garnet collection of Bill Larson (of Pala Properties). Crystals are invariably small; but, in fact, rather than being just a druse of tiny crystals, the crystals here are actually quite eye-visible and large enough to show flashing faces under good light.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",400,309,{"id":431,"source_url":432,"license_code":403,"credit_html":433,"title":434,"description":435,"author":407,"original_width":408,"original_height":436},27173,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10467339","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10467339\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite-uvarclose.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FUvarovite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Uvarovite\">Uvarovite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Saranovskii Mine (Saranovskoe), Saranovskaya (Sarany) Village, Gorozavodskii area, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FPerm_Oblast\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Perm Oblast\">Permskaya Oblast'\u003C\u002Fa>, Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia (\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindat.org\u002Floc-2807.html\">Locality at mindat.org\u003C\u002Fa>)\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Size: large cabinet, 18.3 x 13.1 x 2.0 cm\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdt>UVAROVITE Garnet\u003C\u002Fdt>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>This large plate of the rare uvarovite garnet varietal is the largest and finest I personally know of or have seen. Since 1832 when they were found at this, the Type Locality for the species, this garnet has been the standard of excellence for a green garnet species. Named after Count Sergey Semeonovich Uvarov (1786-1855), Russian statesman and scholar, President of the Academy of St Petersburg (1818-1855) - according to MINDAT. For the collector, this is thus a historical specimen and a beauty. This plate is museum-sized, and rich in quality as well as having that size. Uvarovite crystals do not grow so large as other species of garnet, especially from this locality where most crystals are sub-mm in size and 2mm crystals are considered noteworthy. This specimen has crystals to a whopping 5.5 mm - DOZENS if not hundreds of them. Although there is some damage, it is relatively minor and lost amidst hundreds, literally, of bright and reflective pristine crystals on this plate. This specimen was in the Richard Kosnar collection since it came out of an old Russian collection in 2001. When I first saw it, my mouth dropped. I had no idea such a piece existed.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",541,{"id":438,"source_url":439,"license_code":403,"credit_html":440,"title":441,"description":442,"author":407,"original_width":428,"original_height":443},84631,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10167154","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10167154\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite-250184.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FUvarovite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Uvarovite\">Uvarovite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Saranovskii Mine (Saranovskoe), Saranovskaya (Sarany) Village, Gorozavodskii area, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FPerm_Oblast\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Perm Oblast\">Permskaya Oblast'\u003C\u002Fa>, Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia (\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindat.org\u002Floc-2807.html\">Locality at mindat.org\u003C\u002Fa>)\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Size: 3.4 x 2.9 x 0.8 cm.\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Sharp, gemmy, light and dark emerald-green uvarovite garnet crystals really sparkle on sculptural matrix plate on this excellent specimen from the Type Locality in Russia - the Saranovskii Mine in the Urals. The crystals are up to 2 mm and have textbook dodecahedral form. Uvarovite is the uncommon calcium chromium garnet group endmember. Specimens of this quality haven’t been available since the early 1990s, when the Fersman Museum of Moscow first brought some to the United States.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",363,{"id":445,"source_url":446,"license_code":364,"credit_html":447,"title":448,"description":449,"author":450,"original_width":451,"original_height":452},27174,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=126001945","Ivar Leidus, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=126001945\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite - Saranovskii mine, Middle Urals, Russia.jpg","Uvarovite crystals from Saranovskii mine, Middle Urals, Russia","Ivar Leidus",8256,5504,{"id":454,"source_url":455,"license_code":403,"credit_html":456,"title":457,"description":458,"author":407,"original_width":459,"original_height":460},84632,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10167479","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10167479\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite-251166.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FUvarovite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Uvarovite\">Uvarovite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FJacksonville,_Florida\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Jacksonville, Florida\">Jacksonville\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FTuolumne_County,_California\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Tuolumne County, California\">Tuolumne County\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FCalifornia\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:California\">California\u003C\u002Fa>, USA (\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindat.org\u002Floc-3583.html\">Locality at mindat.org\u003C\u002Fa>)\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Size: 10.5 x 7.2 x 3.8 cm.\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>A fine, old-time, cabinet uvarovite specimen from California. Scintillating, emerald-green crystals to 3 mm richly cover the sculptural matrix on this fine piece. Uvarovite is the uncommon chromium-rich garnet species. Seldom available from this locale. Ex. Mullane Collection.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",556,750,{"id":462,"source_url":463,"license_code":403,"credit_html":464,"title":465,"description":458,"author":407,"original_width":408,"original_height":466},84633,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10167480","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10167480\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite-251167.jpg",498,{"id":468,"source_url":469,"license_code":403,"credit_html":470,"title":471,"description":472,"author":407,"original_width":408,"original_height":473},84634,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10172705","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10172705\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite-283403.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FUvarovite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Uvarovite\">Uvarovite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Saranovskii Mine (Saranovskoe), Saranovskaya (Sarany) Village, Gorozavodskii area, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FPerm_Oblast\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Perm Oblast\">Permskaya Oblast'\u003C\u002Fa>, Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia (\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindat.org\u002Floc-2807.html\">Locality at mindat.org\u003C\u002Fa>)\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Size: 5.4 x 2.8 x 0.8 cm.\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Sharp, gemmy, emerald-green uvarovite garnet crystals really sparkle on matrix on this excellent specimen from the Type Locality in Russia - the Saranovskii Mine in the Urals. The crystals are up to 2 mm and have textbook dodecahedral form. Uvarovite is the uncommon calcium chromium garnet group end-member. Specimens of this quality haven’t been available since the early 1990s, when the Fersman Museum of Moscow first brought some to the United States.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",350,{"id":475,"source_url":476,"license_code":403,"credit_html":477,"title":478,"description":479,"author":407,"original_width":408,"original_height":480},84635,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10173020","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10173020\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite-284849.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FUvarovite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Uvarovite\">Uvarovite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Saranovskii Mine (Saranovskoe), Saranovskaya (Sarany) Village, Gorozavodskii area, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FPerm_Oblast\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Perm Oblast\">Permskaya Oblast'\u003C\u002Fa>, Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia (\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindat.org\u002Floc-2807.html\">Locality at mindat.org\u003C\u002Fa>)\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Size: 4.5 x 2.8 x 1.0 cm.\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Sharp, gemmy, emerald-green uvarovite garnet crystals really sparkle on matrix on this excellent specimen from the Type Locality in Russia - the Saranovskii Mine in the Urals. The crystals are up to 2 mm and have textbook dodecahedral form. Uvarovite is the uncommon calcium chromium garnet group end-member. Specimens of this quality haven’t been available since the early 1990s, when the Fersman Museum of Moscow first brought some to the United States.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",388,{"id":482,"source_url":483,"license_code":403,"credit_html":484,"title":485,"description":486,"author":407,"original_width":428,"original_height":487},84636,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10463155","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10463155\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite-sf13c.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FUvarovite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Uvarovite\">Uvarovite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Saranovskii Mine (Saranovskoe), Saranovskaya (Sarany) Village, Gorozavodskii area, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FPerm_Oblast\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Perm Oblast\">Permskaya Oblast'\u003C\u002Fa>, Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia (\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindat.org\u002Floc-2807.html\">Locality at mindat.org\u003C\u002Fa>)\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Size: small cabinet, 7.2 x 6 x 2.7 cm\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdt>Uvarovite Garnet\u003C\u002Fdt>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>A large and showy specimen rich with deep chrome-green crystals of this rare garnet varietal. Old material, no longer coming out!\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",300,{"id":489,"source_url":490,"license_code":403,"credit_html":491,"title":492,"description":435,"author":407,"original_width":428,"original_height":493},84637,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10467343","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10467343\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite-tuc09103c.jpg",329,{"id":495,"source_url":496,"license_code":403,"credit_html":497,"title":498,"description":499,"author":500,"original_width":375,"original_height":376},84638,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=17718732","Géry PARENT, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=17718732\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Garnet 37.jpg","garnet var. uvarovite : Saranovskii Mine (Saranovskoe), Saranovskaya (Sarany) Village, Gornoazavodskii area, Permskaya Oblast’, Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia","Géry PARENT",{"id":502,"source_url":503,"license_code":403,"credit_html":504,"title":505,"description":506,"author":374,"original_width":375,"original_height":376},84639,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=22075269","Parent Géry, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=22075269\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite.jpeg","garnet var. uvarovite : Saranovskii Mine (Saranovskoe), Saranovskaya (Sarany) Village, Gornoazavodskii area, Permskaya Oblast’, Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia - crystals : 4 mm",{"id":508,"source_url":509,"license_code":403,"credit_html":510,"title":511,"description":512,"author":513,"original_width":514,"original_height":515},84644,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=61931482","Tiia Monto, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=61931482\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite 2.jpg","Uvarovite, Naturmuseum Augsburg.","Tiia Monto",999,1017,{"id":517,"source_url":518,"license_code":347,"credit_html":519,"title":520,"description":521,"author":522,"original_width":523,"original_height":524},84646,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=153905060","Lech Darski, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=153905060\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uwarowit (granat) - Saranowskiy Mine, Ural, Rosja.jpg","Uwarowit (granat) - Saranowskiy Mine, Ural, Rosja.","Lech Darski",4181,2787,{"id":526,"source_url":527,"license_code":528,"credit_html":529,"title":530,"description":531,"author":500,"original_width":223,"original_height":532},22232,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=192503251","CC0 1.0","Géry PARENT, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=192503251\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Shuisikite, uvarovite.jpg","shuiskite, garnets var. uvarovite : Saranovskii Mine (Saranovskoe), Saranovskaya Village (Sarany), Gornoazavodskii area, Permskaya Oblast’, Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia",1317,{"id":534,"source_url":535,"license_code":364,"credit_html":536,"title":537,"description":538,"author":500,"original_width":539,"original_height":540},32547,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=40392203","Géry PARENT, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=40392203\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Amésite, uvarovite 1100.FS2015 1.jpg","amesite var. chromian amesite, garnet var. uvarovite : Saranovskii Mine (Saranovskoe), Saranovskaya Village (Sarany), Gornoazavodskii area, Permskaya Oblast’, Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia",1981,1319,{"id":542,"source_url":543,"license_code":364,"credit_html":544,"title":545,"description":546,"author":500,"original_width":547,"original_height":548},84640,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=40580827","Géry PARENT, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=40580827\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite, quartz 7100.FS2015.jpg","garnet var. uvarovite, quartz : Outokumpu Cu-Zn deposit, Outokumpu Cu-Co-Zn-Ni-Ag-Au ore field, Eastern Finland Region, Finland",1983,1573,{"id":550,"source_url":551,"license_code":364,"credit_html":552,"title":553,"description":554,"author":500,"original_width":256,"original_height":555},84641,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=41291827","Géry PARENT, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=41291827\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite, diopside, chacopyrite 7100.4125.jpg","garnet var. uvarovite, diopside, chalcopyrite : Outokumpu Cu-Zn deposit, Outokumpu Cu-Co-Zn-Ni-Ag-Au ore field, Eastern Finland Region, Finland",1288,{"id":557,"source_url":558,"license_code":364,"credit_html":559,"title":560,"description":561,"author":500,"original_width":547,"original_height":548},84642,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=41291833","Géry PARENT, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=41291833\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite, quartz 7100.FS2015 1.jpg","garnet var. uvarovite, quartz : Outokumpu Cu-Zn deposit, Outokumpu Cu-Co-Zn-Ni-Ag-Au ore field, Eastern Finland Region, Finland - crystal : 11,5 mm",{"id":563,"source_url":564,"license_code":364,"credit_html":565,"title":566,"description":554,"author":500,"original_width":567,"original_height":568},84643,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=41291834","Géry PARENT, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=41291834\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite, diopside, chacopyrite 7100.4130.jpg",1974,1550,{"id":570,"source_url":571,"license_code":364,"credit_html":572,"title":573,"description":574,"author":500,"original_width":575,"original_height":576},22233,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=37979481","Géry PARENT, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=37979481\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Shuiskite, uvarovite 1100.1.2934.jpg","shuiskite, garnet var. uvarovite : Saranovskii Mine (Saranovskoe), Saranovskaya (Sarany) Village, Gornoazavodskii area, Permskaya Oblast’, Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia",1978,1318,{"id":578,"source_url":579,"license_code":364,"credit_html":580,"title":581,"description":538,"author":500,"original_width":539,"original_height":540},32546,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=40392202","Géry PARENT, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=40392202\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Amésite, uvarovite 1100.FS2015.jpg",{"id":583,"source_url":584,"license_code":364,"credit_html":585,"title":586,"description":538,"author":500,"original_width":539,"original_height":540},32549,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=41291432","Géry PARENT, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=41291432\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Amesite, uvarovite 1100FS.2015.jpg",{"id":588,"source_url":589,"license_code":364,"credit_html":590,"title":591,"description":538,"author":500,"original_width":592,"original_height":593},32550,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=41291433","Géry PARENT, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=41291433\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Amesite, uvarovite 1100.4619.jpg",1995,1347,{"id":595,"source_url":596,"license_code":364,"credit_html":597,"title":598,"description":538,"author":500,"original_width":539,"original_height":540},32551,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=41291435","Géry PARENT, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=41291435\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Amesite, uvarovite 1100FS.2015 1.jpg",{"id":600,"source_url":601,"license_code":602,"credit_html":603,"title":604,"description":605,"author":606,"original_width":607,"original_height":608},39906,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=96358250","CC BY 2.0","James St. John, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=96358250\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite garnets on chromitite (Saranovskiy Massif; Sarany Chromite Mine, Ural Mountains, Russia) 1.jpg","Uvarovite garnets on chromitite from Russia. (~2.6 cm across at its widest)\n\u003Cp>A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties.  At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical.  Currently, there are about 5400 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common.  Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry.  Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The silicates are the most abundant and chemically complex group of minerals.  All silicates have silica as the basis for their chemistry.  \"Silica\" refers to SiO2 chemistry.  The fundamental molecular unit of silica is one small silicon atom surrounded by four large oxygen atoms in the shape of a triangular pyramid - this is the silica tetrahedron - SiO4.  Each oxygen atom is shared by two silicon atoms, so only half of the four oxygens \"belong\" to each silicon.  The resulting formula for silica is thus SiO2, not SiO4.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Garnet is a group of silicate minerals.  Garnets are expected to be red to dark red in color - many of them are, but several garnet varieties can be other colors, including purple, orange, olive green, deep green, and black.  Garnets form 12-sided crystals (dodecahedrons) or crystals with even more faces on them.  The crystals become more and more rounded as the crystal face number increases.  Garnet has a nonmetallic, glassy luster, whitish streak, is quite hard (H = 7), has no cleavage, and has conchoidal fracture.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Common examples of garnet include almandine, grossular, spessartine, and andradite.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Almandine is an iron-aluminum garnet (ideally Fe3Al2Si3O12 - iron aluminum silicate).  Almandine is the most common type of garnet - it is commonly encountered as well formed crystals in schists.  It is also found in some igneous rocks.  Almandine is classically used as a mineral indicator of regional metamorphism.  Initially, the development of large, undeformed garnets in metamorphic rocks may seem odd.  However, some metamorphic minerals ignore external pressures as they grow.  Staurolite and pyrite, both common metamorphic minerals, do the same thing.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Grossular is a calcium-aluminum garnet (ideally Ca3Al2Si3O12 - calcium aluminum silicate).  It typically forms after argillaceous limestones have been contact metamorphosed or regionally metamorphosed.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Spessartine is a manganese-aluminum garnet (ideally Mn3Al2Si3O12 - manganese aluminum silicate).  It is typically reddish to brownish in color.  It is often reported in skarns (contact metamorphosed rocks) and rocks enriched in manganese.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Andradite is the most common variety of calcium garnet.  Andradite is a calcium-iron garnet (Ca3Fe2Si3O12 - calcium iron silicate).  It varies in color from yellowish to greenish to brownish to blackish.  Green, chromium-bearing andradite is called demantoid.  Black, titanium-bearing andradite is called melanite.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The deep green-colored crystals shown above are a scarce type of chromium garnet called uvarovite (Ca3Cr2(SiO4)3 - calcium chromium silicate).  The black-colored host rock is chromitite, a crystalline-textured intrusive igneous rock almost exclusively composed of chromite (FeCr2O4 - iron chromium oxide).  The uvarovite garnets are fracture-filling and hydrothermal in origin.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The chromitite host rock is from an ultramafic igneous intrusion called the Saranovskiy Massif, which contains gabbro, gabbronorite, and serpentinitzed chromititic peridotite.  The intrusion is hosted in Precambrian-aged metamorphic rocks (schists and quartzites).  I have not seen published isotopic ages for the Saranovskiy Massif.  The only hint of a geologic age that I have encountered is the non-informative term \"Caledonian\", which may refer to the Silurian and Devonian.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Locality: Sarany Chromite Mine (Saranovskiy Mine), near the village of Sarany (Saranovskaya), ~12 kilometers north of the Biserskoye Chromite Deposit, Permaskaya District (Perm District), Middle Ural Mountains, western Russia\n\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Cp>Photo gallery of almandine:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=452\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of grossular:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=1755\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of spessartine:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=3725\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of andradite:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=223\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of melanite:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=7443\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of uvarovite:\n\u003C\u002Fp>\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=4125","James St. John",1745,1129,{"id":610,"source_url":611,"license_code":602,"credit_html":612,"title":613,"description":614,"author":606,"original_width":615,"original_height":616},39907,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=96358254","James St. John, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=96358254\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite garnets on chromitite (Saranovskiy Massif; Sarany Chromite Mine, Ural Mountains, Russia) 3.jpg","Uvarovite garnets on chromitite from Russia.\n\u003Cp>A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties.  At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical.  Currently, there are about 5400 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common.  Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry.  Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The silicates are the most abundant and chemically complex group of minerals.  All silicates have silica as the basis for their chemistry.  \"Silica\" refers to SiO2 chemistry.  The fundamental molecular unit of silica is one small silicon atom surrounded by four large oxygen atoms in the shape of a triangular pyramid - this is the silica tetrahedron - SiO4.  Each oxygen atom is shared by two silicon atoms, so only half of the four oxygens \"belong\" to each silicon.  The resulting formula for silica is thus SiO2, not SiO4.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Garnet is a group of silicate minerals.  Garnets are expected to be red to dark red in color - many of them are, but several garnet varieties can be other colors, including purple, orange, olive green, deep green, and black.  Garnets form 12-sided crystals (dodecahedrons) or crystals with even more faces on them.  The crystals become more and more rounded as the crystal face number increases.  Garnet has a nonmetallic, glassy luster, whitish streak, is quite hard (H = 7), has no cleavage, and has conchoidal fracture.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Common examples of garnet include almandine, grossular, spessartine, and andradite.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Almandine is an iron-aluminum garnet (ideally Fe3Al2Si3O12 - iron aluminum silicate).  Almandine is the most common type of garnet - it is commonly encountered as well formed crystals in schists.  It is also found in some igneous rocks.  Almandine is classically used as a mineral indicator of regional metamorphism.  Initially, the development of large, undeformed garnets in metamorphic rocks may seem odd.  However, some metamorphic minerals ignore external pressures as they grow.  Staurolite and pyrite, both common metamorphic minerals, do the same thing.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Grossular is a calcium-aluminum garnet (ideally Ca3Al2Si3O12 - calcium aluminum silicate).  It typically forms after argillaceous limestones have been contact metamorphosed or regionally metamorphosed.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Spessartine is a manganese-aluminum garnet (ideally Mn3Al2Si3O12 - manganese aluminum silicate).  It is typically reddish to brownish in color.  It is often reported in skarns (contact metamorphosed rocks) and rocks enriched in manganese.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Andradite is the most common variety of calcium garnet.  Andradite is a calcium-iron garnet (Ca3Fe2Si3O12 - calcium iron silicate).  It varies in color from yellowish to greenish to brownish to blackish.  Green, chromium-bearing andradite is called demantoid.  Black, titanium-bearing andradite is called melanite.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The deep green-colored crystals shown above are a scarce type of chromium garnet called uvarovite (Ca3Cr2(SiO4)3 - calcium chromium silicate).  The black-colored host rock is chromitite, a crystalline-textured intrusive igneous rock almost exclusively composed of chromite (FeCr2O4 - iron chromium oxide).  The uvarovite garnets are fracture-filling and hydrothermal in origin.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The chromitite host rock is from an ultramafic igneous intrusion called the Saranovskiy Massif, which contains gabbro, gabbronorite, and serpentinitzed chromititic peridotite.  The intrusion is hosted in Precambrian-aged metamorphic rocks (schists and quartzites).  I have not seen published isotopic ages for the Saranovskiy Massif.  The only hint of a geologic age that I have encountered is the non-informative term \"Caledonian\", which may refer to the Silurian and Devonian.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Locality: Sarany Chromite Mine (Saranovskiy Mine), near the village of Sarany (Saranovskaya), ~12 kilometers north of the Biserskoye Chromite Deposit, Permaskaya District (Perm District), Middle Ural Mountains, western Russia\n\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Cp>Photo gallery of almandine:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=452\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of grossular:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=1755\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of spessartine:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=3725\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of andradite:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=223\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of melanite:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=7443\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of uvarovite:\n\u003C\u002Fp>\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=4125",2372,1569,{"id":618,"source_url":619,"license_code":602,"credit_html":620,"title":621,"description":622,"author":606,"original_width":623,"original_height":624},39908,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=96358255","James St. John, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=96358255\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite garnets on chromitite (Saranovskiy Massif; Sarany Chromite Mine, Ural Mountains, Russia) 4.jpg","Uvarovite garnets on chromitite from Russia. (~3.9 cm across at its widest)\n\u003Cp>A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties.  At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical.  Currently, there are about 5400 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common.  Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry.  Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The silicates are the most abundant and chemically complex group of minerals.  All silicates have silica as the basis for their chemistry.  \"Silica\" refers to SiO2 chemistry.  The fundamental molecular unit of silica is one small silicon atom surrounded by four large oxygen atoms in the shape of a triangular pyramid - this is the silica tetrahedron - SiO4.  Each oxygen atom is shared by two silicon atoms, so only half of the four oxygens \"belong\" to each silicon.  The resulting formula for silica is thus SiO2, not SiO4.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Garnet is a group of silicate minerals.  Garnets are expected to be red to dark red in color - many of them are, but several garnet varieties can be other colors, including purple, orange, olive green, deep green, and black.  Garnets form 12-sided crystals (dodecahedrons) or crystals with even more faces on them.  The crystals become more and more rounded as the crystal face number increases.  Garnet has a nonmetallic, glassy luster, whitish streak, is quite hard (H = 7), has no cleavage, and has conchoidal fracture.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Common examples of garnet include almandine, grossular, spessartine, and andradite.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Almandine is an iron-aluminum garnet (ideally Fe3Al2Si3O12 - iron aluminum silicate).  Almandine is the most common type of garnet - it is commonly encountered as well formed crystals in schists.  It is also found in some igneous rocks.  Almandine is classically used as a mineral indicator of regional metamorphism.  Initially, the development of large, undeformed garnets in metamorphic rocks may seem odd.  However, some metamorphic minerals ignore external pressures as they grow.  Staurolite and pyrite, both common metamorphic minerals, do the same thing.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Grossular is a calcium-aluminum garnet (ideally Ca3Al2Si3O12 - calcium aluminum silicate).  It typically forms after argillaceous limestones have been contact metamorphosed or regionally metamorphosed.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Spessartine is a manganese-aluminum garnet (ideally Mn3Al2Si3O12 - manganese aluminum silicate).  It is typically reddish to brownish in color.  It is often reported in skarns (contact metamorphosed rocks) and rocks enriched in manganese.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Andradite is the most common variety of calcium garnet.  Andradite is a calcium-iron garnet (Ca3Fe2Si3O12 - calcium iron silicate).  It varies in color from yellowish to greenish to brownish to blackish.  Green, chromium-bearing andradite is called demantoid.  Black, titanium-bearing andradite is called melanite.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The deep green-colored crystals shown above are a scarce type of chromium garnet called uvarovite (Ca3Cr2(SiO4)3 - calcium chromium silicate).  The black-colored host rock is chromitite, a crystalline-textured intrusive igneous rock almost exclusively composed of chromite (FeCr2O4 - iron chromium oxide).  The uvarovite garnets are fracture-filling and hydrothermal in origin.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The chromitite host rock is from an ultramafic igneous intrusion called the Saranovskiy Massif, which contains gabbro, gabbronorite, and serpentinitzed chromititic peridotite.  The intrusion is hosted in Precambrian-aged metamorphic rocks (schists and quartzites).  I have not seen published isotopic ages for the Saranovskiy Massif.  The only hint of a geologic age that I have encountered is the non-informative term \"Caledonian\", which may refer to the Silurian and Devonian.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Locality: Sarany Chromite Mine (Saranovskiy Mine), near the village of Sarany (Saranovskaya), ~12 kilometers north of the Biserskoye Chromite Deposit, Permaskaya District (Perm District), Middle Ural Mountains, western Russia\n\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Cp>Photo gallery of almandine:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=452\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of grossular:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=1755\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of spessartine:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=3725\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of andradite:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=223\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of melanite:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=7443\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of uvarovite:\n\u003C\u002Fp>\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=4125",3037,1797,{"id":626,"source_url":627,"license_code":602,"credit_html":628,"title":629,"description":622,"author":606,"original_width":630,"original_height":631},39909,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=96358256","James St. John, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=96358256\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite garnets on chromitite (Saranovskiy Massif; Sarany Chromite Mine, Ural Mountains, Russia) 2.jpg",2497,1408,{"id":633,"source_url":634,"license_code":602,"credit_html":635,"title":636,"description":637,"author":606,"original_width":638,"original_height":639},39910,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=96358266","James St. John, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=96358266\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite garnets on chromitite (Saranovskiy Massif; Sarany Chromite Mine, Ural Mountains, Russia) 6.jpg","Uvarovite garnets on chromitite from Russia. (~8.4 centimeters across at its widest)\n\u003Cp>A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties.  At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical.  Currently, there are about 5400 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common.  Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry.  Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The silicates are the most abundant and chemically complex group of minerals.  All silicates have silica as the basis for their chemistry.  \"Silica\" refers to SiO2 chemistry.  The fundamental molecular unit of silica is one small silicon atom surrounded by four large oxygen atoms in the shape of a triangular pyramid - this is the silica tetrahedron - SiO4.  Each oxygen atom is shared by two silicon atoms, so only half of the four oxygens \"belong\" to each silicon.  The resulting formula for silica is thus SiO2, not SiO4.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Garnet is a group of silicate minerals.  Garnets are expected to be red to dark red in color - many of them are, but several garnet varieties can be other colors, including purple, orange, olive green, deep green, and black.  Garnets form 12-sided crystals (dodecahedrons) or crystals with even more faces on them.  The crystals become more and more rounded as the crystal face number increases.  Garnet has a nonmetallic, glassy luster, whitish streak, is quite hard (H = 7), has no cleavage, and has conchoidal fracture.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Common examples of garnet include almandine, grossular, spessartine, and andradite.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Almandine is an iron-aluminum garnet (ideally Fe3Al2Si3O12 - iron aluminum silicate).  Almandine is the most common type of garnet - it is commonly encountered as well formed crystals in schists.  It is also found in some igneous rocks.  Almandine is classically used as a mineral indicator of regional metamorphism.  Initially, the development of large, undeformed garnets in metamorphic rocks may seem odd.  However, some metamorphic minerals ignore external pressures as they grow.  Staurolite and pyrite, both common metamorphic minerals, do the same thing.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Grossular is a calcium-aluminum garnet (ideally Ca3Al2Si3O12 - calcium aluminum silicate).  It typically forms after argillaceous limestones have been contact metamorphosed or regionally metamorphosed.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Spessartine is a manganese-aluminum garnet (ideally Mn3Al2Si3O12 - manganese aluminum silicate).  It is typically reddish to brownish in color.  It is often reported in skarns (contact metamorphosed rocks) and rocks enriched in manganese.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Andradite is the most common variety of calcium garnet.  Andradite is a calcium-iron garnet (Ca3Fe2Si3O12 - calcium iron silicate).  It varies in color from yellowish to greenish to brownish to blackish.  Green, chromium-bearing andradite is called demantoid.  Black, titanium-bearing andradite is called melanite.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The deep green-colored crystals shown above are a scarce type of chromium garnet called uvarovite (Ca3Cr2(SiO4)3 - calcium chromium silicate).  The black-colored host rock is chromitite, a crystalline-textured intrusive igneous rock almost exclusively composed of chromite (FeCr2O4 - iron chromium oxide).  The uvarovite garnets are fracture-filling and hydrothermal in origin.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The chromitite host rock is from an ultramafic igneous intrusion called the Saranovskiy Massif, which contains gabbro, gabbronorite, and serpentinitzed chromititic peridotite.  The intrusion is hosted in Precambrian-aged metamorphic rocks (schists and quartzites).  I have not seen published isotopic ages for the Saranovskiy Massif.  The only hint of a geologic age that I have encountered is the non-informative term \"Caledonian\", which may refer to the Silurian and Devonian.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Locality: Sarany Chromite Mine (Saranovskiy Mine), near the village of Sarany (Saranovskaya), ~12 kilometers north of the Biserskoye Chromite Deposit, Permaskaya District (Perm District), Middle Ural Mountains, western Russia\n\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Cp>Photo gallery of almandine:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=452\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of grossular:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=1755\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of spessartine:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=3725\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of andradite:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=223\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of melanite:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=7443\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of uvarovite:\n\u003C\u002Fp>\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=4125",2425,2547,{"id":641,"source_url":642,"license_code":602,"credit_html":643,"title":644,"description":645,"author":606,"original_width":646,"original_height":647},83157,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=96358265","James St. John, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=96358265\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite garnets on chromitite (Saranovskiy Massif; Sarany Chromite Mine, Ural Mountains, Russia) 7.jpg","Uvarovite garnets on chromitite from Russia. (~8.8 centimeters across at its widest)\n\u003Cp>A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties.  At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical.  Currently, there are about 5400 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common.  Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry.  Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The silicates are the most abundant and chemically complex group of minerals.  All silicates have silica as the basis for their chemistry.  \"Silica\" refers to SiO2 chemistry.  The fundamental molecular unit of silica is one small silicon atom surrounded by four large oxygen atoms in the shape of a triangular pyramid - this is the silica tetrahedron - SiO4.  Each oxygen atom is shared by two silicon atoms, so only half of the four oxygens \"belong\" to each silicon.  The resulting formula for silica is thus SiO2, not SiO4.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Garnet is a group of silicate minerals.  Garnets are expected to be red to dark red in color - many of them are, but several garnet varieties can be other colors, including purple, orange, olive green, deep green, and black.  Garnets form 12-sided crystals (dodecahedrons) or crystals with even more faces on them.  The crystals become more and more rounded as the crystal face number increases.  Garnet has a nonmetallic, glassy luster, whitish streak, is quite hard (H = 7), has no cleavage, and has conchoidal fracture.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Common examples of garnet include almandine, grossular, spessartine, and andradite.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Almandine is an iron-aluminum garnet (ideally Fe3Al2Si3O12 - iron aluminum silicate).  Almandine is the most common type of garnet - it is commonly encountered as well formed crystals in schists.  It is also found in some igneous rocks.  Almandine is classically used as a mineral indicator of regional metamorphism.  Initially, the development of large, undeformed garnets in metamorphic rocks may seem odd.  However, some metamorphic minerals ignore external pressures as they grow.  Staurolite and pyrite, both common metamorphic minerals, do the same thing.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Grossular is a calcium-aluminum garnet (ideally Ca3Al2Si3O12 - calcium aluminum silicate).  It typically forms after argillaceous limestones have been contact metamorphosed or regionally metamorphosed.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Spessartine is a manganese-aluminum garnet (ideally Mn3Al2Si3O12 - manganese aluminum silicate).  It is typically reddish to brownish in color.  It is often reported in skarns (contact metamorphosed rocks) and rocks enriched in manganese.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Andradite is the most common variety of calcium garnet.  Andradite is a calcium-iron garnet (Ca3Fe2Si3O12 - calcium iron silicate).  It varies in color from yellowish to greenish to brownish to blackish.  Green, chromium-bearing andradite is called demantoid.  Black, titanium-bearing andradite is called melanite.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The deep green-colored crystals shown above are a scarce type of chromium garnet called uvarovite (Ca3Cr2(SiO4)3 - calcium chromium silicate).  The black-colored host rock is chromitite, a crystalline-textured intrusive igneous rock almost exclusively composed of chromite (FeCr2O4 - iron chromium oxide).  The uvarovite garnets are fracture-filling and hydrothermal in origin.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The chromitite host rock is from an ultramafic igneous intrusion called the Saranovskiy Massif, which contains gabbro, gabbronorite, and serpentinitzed chromititic peridotite.  The intrusion is hosted in Precambrian-aged metamorphic rocks (schists and quartzites).  I have not seen published isotopic ages for the Saranovskiy Massif.  The only hint of a geologic age that I have encountered is the non-informative term \"Caledonian\", which may refer to the Silurian and Devonian.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Locality: Sarany Chromite Mine (Saranovskiy Mine), near the village of Sarany (Saranovskaya), ~12 kilometers north of the Biserskoye Chromite Deposit, Permaskaya District (Perm District), Middle Ural Mountains, western Russia\n\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Cp>Photo gallery of almandine:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=452\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of grossular:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=1755\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of spessartine:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=3725\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of andradite:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=223\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of melanite:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=7443\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of uvarovite:\n\u003C\u002Fp>\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=4125",2681,2529,{"id":649,"source_url":650,"license_code":602,"credit_html":651,"title":652,"description":653,"author":606,"original_width":654,"original_height":655},83158,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=96358267","James St. John, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=96358267\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Uvarovite garnets on chromitite (Saranovskiy Massif; Sarany Chromite Mine, Ural Mountains, Russia) 5.jpg","Uvarovite garnets on chromitite from Russia. (~3.9 centimeters across at its widest)\n\u003Cp>A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties.  At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical.  Currently, there are over 5600 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common.  Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry.  Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The silicates are the most abundant and chemically complex group of minerals.  All silicates have silica as the basis for their chemistry.  \"Silica\" refers to SiO2 chemistry.  The fundamental molecular unit of silica is one small silicon atom surrounded by four large oxygen atoms in the shape of a triangular pyramid - this is the silica tetrahedron - SiO4.  Each oxygen atom is shared by two silicon atoms, so only half of the four oxygens \"belong\" to each silicon.  The resulting formula for silica is thus SiO2, not SiO4.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Garnet is a group of silicate minerals.  Garnets are expected to be red to dark red in color - many of them are, but several garnet varieties can be other colors, including purple, orange, olive green, deep green, and black.  Garnets form 12-sided crystals (dodecahedrons) or crystals with even more faces on them.  The crystals become more and more rounded as the crystal face number increases.  Garnet has a nonmetallic, glassy luster, whitish streak, is quite hard (H = 7), has no cleavage, and has conchoidal fracture.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Common examples of garnet include almandine, grossular, spessartine, and andradite.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Almandine is an iron-aluminum garnet (ideally Fe3Al2Si3O12 - iron aluminum silicate).  Almandine is the most common type of garnet - it is commonly encountered as well formed crystals in schists.  It is also found in some igneous rocks.  Almandine is classically used as a mineral indicator of regional metamorphism.  Initially, the development of large, undeformed garnets in metamorphic rocks may seem odd.  However, some metamorphic minerals ignore external pressures as they grow.  Staurolite and pyrite, both common metamorphic minerals, do the same thing.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Grossular is a calcium-aluminum garnet (ideally Ca3Al2Si3O12 - calcium aluminum silicate).  It typically forms after argillaceous limestones have been contact metamorphosed or regionally metamorphosed.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Spessartine is a manganese-aluminum garnet (ideally Mn3Al2Si3O12 - manganese aluminum silicate).  It is typically reddish to brownish in color.  It is often reported in skarns (contact metamorphosed rocks) and rocks enriched in manganese.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Andradite is the most common variety of calcium garnet.  Andradite is a calcium-iron garnet (Ca3Fe2Si3O12 - calcium iron silicate).  It varies in color from yellowish to greenish to brownish to blackish.  Green, chromium-bearing andradite is called demantoid.  Black, titanium-bearing andradite is called melanite.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The deep green-colored crystals shown above are a scarce type of chromium garnet called uvarovite (Ca3Cr2(SiO4)3 - calcium chromium silicate).  The black-colored host rock is chromitite, a crystalline-textured intrusive igneous rock almost exclusively composed of chromite (FeCr2O4 - iron chromium oxide).  The uvarovite garnets are fracture-filling and hydrothermal in origin.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The chromitite host rock is from an ultramafic igneous intrusion called the Saranovskiy Massif, which contains gabbro, gabbronorite, and serpentinitzed chromitic peridotite.  The intrusion is hosted in Precambrian-aged metamorphic rocks (schists and quartzites).  I have not seen published isotopic ages for the Saranovskiy Massif.  The only hint of a geologic age that I have encountered is the non-informative term \"Caledonian\", which may refer to the Silurian and Devonian.\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Locality: Sarany Chromite Mine (Saranovskiy Mine), near the village of Sarany (Saranovskaya), ~12 kilometers north of the Biserskoye Chromite Deposit, Permaskaya District (Perm District), Middle Ural Mountains, western Russia\n\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Cp>Photo gallery of almandine:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=452\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of grossular:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=1755\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of spessartine:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=3725\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of andradite:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=223\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of melanite:\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=7443\n\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Photo gallery of uvarovite:\n\u003C\u002Fp>\nwww.mindat.org\u002Fgallery.php?min=4125",2507,1486,[657,663,669,675,681],{"id":658,"url":659,"label":660,"formula":661,"spacegroup":662,"year":315},14096,"\u002Fcif\u002F14096.cif","Righter 2011","Ca3 (Cr1.15 Al.82 Ti.03) Si3 O12","I a 3 d",{"id":664,"url":665,"label":666,"formula":667,"spacegroup":668,"year":277},14097,"\u002Fcif\u002F14097.cif","Andrut 2002","Ca3 Cr2 Si3 O12","I a -3 d",{"id":670,"url":671,"label":672,"formula":673,"spacegroup":674,"year":265},14098,"\u002Fcif\u002F14098.cif","Wildner 2001 · Ca3 (Cr1.462 Al.538) Si3 O12","Ca3 (Cr1.462 Al.538) Si3 O12","I -1",{"id":676,"url":677,"label":678,"formula":679,"spacegroup":680,"year":265},14099,"\u002Fcif\u002F14099.cif","Wildner 2001 · Ca3 (Cr1.423 Al.577) Si3 O12","Ca3 (Cr1.423 Al.577) Si3 O12","F d d d",{"id":682,"url":683,"label":684,"formula":685,"spacegroup":674,"year":265},14100,"\u002Fcif\u002F14100.cif","Wildner 2001 · Ca3 (Cr1.061 Al.939) Si3 O12","Ca3 (Cr1.061 Al.939) Si3 O12",[687,688,689],"Chrome Garnet","Chromgranat","Uvarovite Garnet",[691,695,699,703,707,710,713,717,722,726,730,733,737,743,747,751,754,758,762,767,770,774,777,781,784,787,790,794,797,801,804,809,812],{"lang":692,"names":693},"be",[694],"Уваравіт",{"lang":696,"names":697},"ca",[698],"uvarovita",{"lang":700,"names":701},"cs",[702],"Uvarovit",{"lang":704,"names":705},"de",[706],"Uwarowit",{"lang":708,"names":709},"es",[698],{"lang":711,"names":712},"eu",[698],{"lang":714,"names":715},"fa",[716],"یوواروویت",{"lang":718,"names":719},"fi",[720,721],"Kalsiumkromisilikaatti","Uvaroviitti",{"lang":723,"names":724},"fr",[725,7],"ouvarovite",{"lang":727,"names":728},"he",[729],"אוברוביט",{"lang":731,"names":732},"hu",[702],{"lang":734,"names":735},"it",[736],"uvarovite",{"lang":738,"names":739},"ja",[740,741,742],"ウバロバイト","灰クロムざくろ石","灰クロム柘榴石",{"lang":744,"names":745},"ka",[746],"უვაროვიტი",{"lang":748,"names":749},"kk",[750],"Уваровит",{"lang":752,"names":753},"ky",[750],{"lang":755,"names":756},"lt",[757],"Uvarovitas",{"lang":759,"names":760},"nb",[761],"uvarovitt",{"lang":763,"names":764},"nl",[765,766],"uvaroviet","Uwarowiet",{"lang":768,"names":769},"nn",[761],{"lang":771,"names":772},"no",[773],"Uvarovitt",{"lang":775,"names":776},"pl",[706],{"lang":778,"names":779},"ru",[780],"уваровит",{"lang":782,"names":783},"sk",[702],{"lang":785,"names":786},"sl",[702],{"lang":788,"names":789},"sr",[780],{"lang":791,"names":792},"sv",[793],"uvarovit",{"lang":795,"names":796},"tr",[702],{"lang":798,"names":799},"uk",[800],"уваровіт",{"lang":802,"names":803},"uz",[702],{"lang":805,"names":806},"zh",[807,808],"鈣鉻榴石","钙铬榴石",{"lang":810,"names":811},"zh-cn",[808],{"lang":813,"names":814},"zh-hans",[808],"Q409733",{"history":11,"applications":11}]