Specifications
Description
Mined from: Sierra De Cruces, east of Laguna de Jaco, near Hercules, Coahuila, Mexico
Description: These garnets come with a locality story. In the 1950s, California mineral dealer George Burnham was told about unusual pink garnets in Coahuila, Mexico. He travelled by horse and pack animal into the Sierra de Cruces and found them in abundance. To keep the source quiet, he labelled the specimens after a dry lake he could see to the west from the mountaintop, Laguna de Jaco. The "Lake Jaco" name stuck for decades, even though no garnets come from the lake itself.
The garnets formed in a skarn, where hot fluids from an intruding diorite reacted with Cretaceous limestone. Grossular is a calcium aluminium garnet. Here it grows with vesuvianite, wollastonite and calcite. Studies of the zoned crystals found that manganese gives the pink rims their colour.
This piece is a cluster of grossular garnet crystals.
In crystal lore, grossular garnet is traditionally associated with vitality and renewal.
Chemical Composition: Ca3Al2(SiO4)3
Chakra: Root
Approximate Size for 1 piece: 7cm x 6.5cm x 6.5cm
Approximate Weight for 1 piece: 270g
Quantity: 1pc
We do our best to buy quality products- although not every rock is the same. If you choose to purchase the "staff pick option", we will select the best of the batch for you. Otherwise, it will be at random from the larger batch we have in stock.