Varieties of garnets, gemstones, Pyrope, Almandine, Spessartine, Demantoid, Tsavorite

Varieties of garnets, gemstones, Pyrope, Almandine, Spessartine, Demantoid, Tsavorite

Garnet has various colors from red to green as pyrope garnet, almandine garnet, spessartine garnet, hessonite garnet, uvarovite garnet, grossular garnet, andradite garnet, demantoid garnet and tsavorite garnet.
We can divide them by subgroup and solid solution.
Garnet is divaded by two subgroup according to the quantity of calcium. One is pyralspite group as calcium poor garnets and another is ugrandite group as calcium rich garnets.

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