Description
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 1 mm and have textbook dodecahedral form. Uvarovite is the uncommon calcium chromium Garnet group end member. Specimen of this quality haven´t been available since the early 1990s, when the Fersman Museum of Moscow first brought some to the international market. 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.