Detail Of Garnet
Garnet comes in a variety of colors & shapes - this specimen is a deep red color. Garnet forms under intense heat and pressure conditions, making it a common mineral in mountainous terranes. Ideal for teaching students about rounding and sorting, as well as for identification & classification exercises.
Garnets are opaque, transparent to translucent minerals that can be found as individual crystals, pebbles, or clumps of inter-grown crystals. Garnets are most commonly found with reddish shades, but can be, orange, yellow, green, purple, brown, blue, black, pink, and colourless. Blue garnets are very rare