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Grossular is a calcium-aluminium
species of the
garnet group of minerals. It has the
chemical formula of Ca3Al2(SiO4)3 but the
calcium may, in part, be...
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different species are pyrope, almandine, spessartine,
grossular (varieties of
which are
hessonite or cinnamon-stone and tsavorite), uvarovite...
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ugrandite group alongside the
other calcium-bearing
garnets andradite and
grossular.
Uvarovite is the
rarest of the
common members of the
garnet group, and...
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Tsavorite or
tsavolite is a
variety of the
garnet group species grossular, a calcium-aluminium
garnet with the
formula Ca3Al2Si3O12.
Trace amounts of...
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Demantoid Melanite Topazolite Grossular Hessonite Hydrogrossular Tsavorite Uvarovite Almandine-pyrope
Rhodolite Andradite-
grossular Grandite (Mali garnet)...
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Gratonite Greenalite Greenockite Gregoryite Greifensteinite Greigite Grossite Grossular Groutite Grunerite Guettardite Gugiaite Guilleminite Gunningite Guyanaite...
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endmembers of the
hydrogarnet family (
grossular, hibschite, and katoite)
depend on the
degree of
substitution (x):
grossular: x = 0 hibschite: 0.2 < x < 1.5...
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temperature (TN=11 K).
Black crystals of andradite:
melanite Almandine Geology Grossular Mineral Mineral collecting Pyrope Spessartine Tsavorite Uvarovite Warr...
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carbonate bearing rocks. ****ociated
minerals include calcite, dolomite,
grossular, wollastonite, talc, diopside, forsterite, ****mingtonite,
riebeckite and...
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ugrandite garnets have Ca2+ in the X position:
uvarovite (Ca3Cr2(SiO4)3),
grossular (Ca3Al2(SiO4)3) and
andradite (Ca3Fe2(SiO4)3).
While there are two subgroups...
