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is a variety name of grossular; that is not a recognized mineral species. It is usually olive green though sometimes brownish or reddish, brought about by impurities in the crystal. Viluite is found associated with and is similar in appearance to
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light to dark green, light to dark yellow to reddish brown, brown, orange, red, yellow, green, white, occasionally translucent to opaque pink. It is also but rarely found in colorless form
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near colorless to light green – inert to weak orange in longwave and weak yellow-orange in shortwave; yellow – inert to weak orange in longwave and shortwave
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deposits, though its occurrence in its native matrix is not unknown. It is also found in
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A highly sought after variety of gem garnet is the fine green
Grossular garnet from
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Hessonite or "cinnamon stone" is a common variety of grossular with the general
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and the aluminium by ferric iron. The name grossular is derived from the
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scale), while the hardness of most garnet species is nearer 7.5.
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brown (cinnamon stone variety), red, and yellow. Grossular is a
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In geological literature, grossular has often been called
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Group of
Grossular crystals, largest 1.1 cm, from
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Color range of grossular graphically displayed at the
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Grossular is known by many other names, and also some
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The Free
Dictionary, accessed online January 25, 2007
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but the calcium may, in part, be replaced by ferrous
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translucent to opaque pink grossularite crystals in
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Single refractive, often anomalous double refractive
1008:Mindat mineral database, accessed January 25, 2007
611:area of Kenya, from which the gem takes its name.
607:. This garnet was discovered in the 1960s in the
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890:International Mineralogical Association (1971).
326:Hessonite sometimes shows bands at 407 and 430
622:, and there is confusion in terminology as
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549:and India, where it is found generally in
996:Mindat database, accessed 15 October 2023
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518:. It was shown many years ago, by Sir
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545:Hessonite comes chiefly from
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27:Garnet, nesosilicate mineral
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790:Mineralogical Magazine
648:Wah Wah mountain range
569:Grossular is found in
538:(being about 7 on the
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711:Cultural significance
638:. It comes from the
571:contact metamorphosed
520:Arthur Herbert Church
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113:Strunz classification
691:. Misnomers include
202:conchoidal to uneven
48:, 7 mm across, from
911:1971MinM...38..102.
811:10.1180/mgm.2021.43
802:2021MinM...85..291W
784:Warr, L.N. (2021).
1095:Aluminium minerals
693:South African jade
507:(hēssōn), meaning
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322:Absorption spectra
260:Optical properties
225:greasy to vitreous
1043:"Vermont Emblems"
1030:Gooseberry Garnet
673:gooseberry-garnet
636:James Dwight Dana
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457:grossularite
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361:Leuco-garnet
312:fluorescence
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67:Nesosilicate
46:dodecahedron
18:Grossularite
1018:Colophonite
697:garnet jade
685:romanzovite
677:olyntholite
660:colophonite
620:vesuvianite
578:vesuvianite
438:grossularia
379:from Mexico
309:Ultraviolet
289:Pleochroism
158:Space group
1084:Categories
1053:2009-11-12
772:References
681:olytholite
574:limestones
559:California
434:gooseberry
299:Dispersion
208:Mohs scale
146:H-M Symbol
103:IMA symbol
44:Grossular
1006:Grossular
878:Grossular
820:235729616
715:In 1991,
665:andradite
655:misnomers
650:in Utah.
605:tsavorite
590:wernerite
547:Sri Lanka
524:gemstones
467:Hessonite
430:botanical
400:group of
394:aluminium
386:Grossular
351:Tsavorite
341:Hessonite
33:Grossular
858:; 1995;
760:See also
642:area in
601:Tanzania
582:diopside
565:Deposits
509:inferior
450:gemstone
446:cinnamon
402:minerals
371:Rosolite
255:vitreous
215:6.5 to 7
211:hardness
198:Fracture
188:Cleavage
63:Category
52:, Mexico
50:Coahuila
974:Viluite
948::
907:Bibcode
798:Bibcode
717:Vermont
644:Siberia
628:wiluite
624:viluite
615:Viluite
603:called
481:formula
442:Siberia
390:calcium
148:: (4/m
117:9.AD.25
74:Formula
58:General
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703:, and
687:, and
669:ernite
555:Brazil
551:placer
536:quartz
516:zircon
398:garnet
377:marble
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231:Streak
221:Luster
895:(PDF)
816:S2CID
609:Tsavo
597:Kenya
576:with
505:ἣσσων
408:of Ca
388:is a
236:Brown
179:Color
128:Cubic
860:ISBN
630:, a
599:and
588:and
557:and
540:mohs
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426:iron
416:(SiO
303:.028
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283:none
192:none
152:2/m)
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