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Grossular — specimen 0118, photo © NMNHS
Grossular — specimen 0118, photo © NMNHS

Grossularspecimen 0118

Origin

East Africa
Tanzania
Grossular — specimen 0118, locality map
Data

Weight: 0.62 ct; size: 5.14 | 5.11 | 3.33 mm; shape: round; colour: very light yellow; clarity: eye clean; cut: excellent; treatment: none.
Notes

Very clean specimen; excellent brilliant style cut. Cut by Daniel Stair, Custom Gemstones.

Other specimens
Grossular — specimen 0459

More information from ‘Classification’


In contact and regionally metamorphosed calcareous rocks, or rocks which have undergone calcium metasomatism; in some schists and serpentinites (Anthony et al., 2001—2005).