Garnet Photos    
Cochise College               
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Roger Weller, geology instructor

wellerr@cochise.edu    copyright 2008-R.Weller

 
garnet-variety uvarovite
The garnet family of silicate minerals all contain a +2 cation and a +3 cation.  Uvarovite is one of
the rarest members of the garnet family.  The +2 cation is calcium and the +3 element is chromium. 
Uvarovite rarely forms single large crystals.  Instead it usually occurs as massive clusters of tiny
green crystals.
 

garnet
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Just credit photo to R.Weller/Cochise College.