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Mineral Specimens with Grossular
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4.3 x 2.2 x 1.7 cm. A rare replacement, classic for this locality. Grossular garnet has completely replaced a former epidote crystal cluster. Diopside crystals deposited later, accent the termination. Ex. Ken Hollman Collection.
6.7 x 4.2 x 3.8 cm. A rare replacement, classic for this locality. This is a super specimen with a large, 3-dimensional, sharp crystal at the top of a cluster of smaller ones. The Grossular garnet has completely replaced a former epidote crystal cluster. Diopside crystals deposited later, accent the termination. It is a fine example for the style because of the sharpness of crystal habit here. Ex. Ken Hollman Collection.
A glistening, sparkling plate of wet-looking crystals. These have a decidedly unusual peach color to them, not as red or as orange as most Jeffrey garnets are....or rather, were. the mine is now closed! 9.5 x 5 x 1.8 cm
A gorgeous plate of rich, highly lustrous, gemmy grossular garnets. It can be displayed just about any which way, and flashes color and faces at you no matter which angle you choose.It is a thin plate with no damage at all save for the very edges, and is thus in exceptional condition. Note that the mine is now CLOSED for good. 6 x 5.6 x 1.3 cm
6.6 x 5.3 x 4.1 cm. The 1.3 cm, raspberry-red crystal has exceptionally intense color on this fine, richly covered, 3-dimensional grossular garnet specimen from Lake Jaco in Mexico. The crystals are sharp, gemmy and lustrous.
1.6 x 1.4 x 0.9 cm. A classic and fine Eden Mills thumbnail from the Dick Jones Collection. A 1.1 cm, gemmy and lustrous, reddish-orange, complete-all-around and pristine, grossular garnet is perched on a diopside crystal. The grossular has textbook, dodecahedral form. Older material.
Beautiful, classic, juicy garnet crystals from the Jeffrey, now sadly closed . The crystals here reach 1 cm. No damage to display face save bottom periphery. 3.4 x 2.9 x 1.4
16.0 x 9.0 x 7.0 cm. A fine, large cabinet specimen of vuggy matrix festooned with gemmy and lustrous, burnt orange grossular garnets and nicely accented by green diopside crystals. The garnets reach 1.0 cm and the largest diopside is 1.5 cm. Excellent, large specimen from the well-known York River Skarn of Bancroft, Ontario. Ex. Mullane Collection.
3.2 x 3.1 x 1.8 cm. This specimen hosts dozens upon dozens of rich reddish orange color, highly lustrous, gemmy, sparkling, dodechedra (with minor trapezohedral modifying faces) of Grossular (var: "Hessonite") on matrix. Val di Susa is famous for these Hessonites. Ex. Brian Kosnar Collection (#BK196).
A gorgeous thumbnail of super-gemmy orange grossular garnets on matrix from the famous, now-closed Jeffrey Mine of Canada. Ex Willard Perkin Collection, from whom the "perky box" was named! This is a choice thumbnail because you seldom see for this size range, crystals balanced so nicely on matrix. 2.4 x 2.3 x 1.5 cm
A beautiful plate of gemmy, transparent and lustrous COLORLESS grossular garnet crystals on matrix from the famous and now-closed Jeffrey Mine of Quebec, Canada. Colorless grossular garnets from the Jeffrey Mine are VERY UNCOMMON and this is a superb one! 3.8 x 2.9 x 1.0 cm
A showy combination piece of gemmy garnets on clinochlore from a classic Italian locality These crystals are well-known European classics known for their gemminess and deep wine-red color. This piece has grossular garnets to 4 mm associated with lustrous green-gray clinochlore books and just sparkles like heck! From an old Italian collection! NICE! 6.3 x 6.4 x 2.6 cm
8.0 x 6.2 x 2.5 cm. Very gemmy and lustrous, cinnamon-brown grossular garnets to 1.0 cm richly cover the matrix plate on this outstanding specimen from the Vesper Peak, Washington and the Bart Cannon Collection. This skarn area was a noted locality for fine grossular during the 1970s. There are literally dozens of gemmy garnets on this piece.
6.2 x 4.3 x 3.2 cm. A 2.7 cm, gemmy and lustrous, golden-amber grossular garnet attractively set in quartz matrix with smaller grossulars from a new find at the Kaiiado District of Kenya. This very elongate, dodecahedral crystal has riveting color and lustre. Garnet from this locale is very uncommon.
6.2 x 4.7 x 3.7 cm. This fine piece features a sharp, translucent, vibrant “raspberry” color grossular garnet dodecahedron measuring 2.4 cm. The grossular is very well-placed on the mounded, sintered quartz matrix with smaller garnet crystals.
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