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[Tobi]

What are your favourite localities for GARNET? My favourites are:

- Sierra de Cruces, Mun. de Sierra Mojada, Coahuila, Mexico (Grossular)
- Nani Hill, Loliondo, Ngorongoro district, Arusha Region, Tanzania (Spessartine)
- Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Yunxiao Co., Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, China (Spessartine)
- Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan (Spessartine)
- Arrondissement Diakon, Commune Diakon, Cercle de Bafoulabé, Kayes Region, Mali (Melanite)
- Antetezambato Demantoid-Topazolite Mine, Antetezambato (Tetezambato), Maherivaratra Commune, Ambanja District, Diana Region (Northern Region), Antsiranana Province, Madagascar (Demantoid)
- Garnet Ledge (Alaska Garnet; Wrangell Garnet), Wrangell, Wrangell Island, Wrangell-Petersburg Borough, Alaska, USA (Almandine)
- Dal'negorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia (Andradite)

[Les Presmyk]

Here is one from our Arizona collection.

[alfredo]

My favorites are from Tenkawa village in Japan, the rainbow andradites from an old abandoned magnetite mine. The colored layer is not a surface iridescence but rather a few tenths of a millimeter under the surface.

https://www.mindat.org/photo-381654.html

And of course everyone loves the transparent grossulars from Asbestos, Quebec. And the deep green uvarovites from Finland..... and.... the list could easily turn into a book.

[Tobi]

[Matt_Zukowski]

Jeffrey and Antetezambato

[Tobi]

Really nice, Matt!
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Additional information:

I changed the name of the topic from "Favourite Garnet localities" to "Favourite Garnets". So everyone can feel free not only to discuss his/her favourite localities but also which varieties, colours and forms of that mineral group he/she likes the most, e.g. simple of complex crystal forms, gemmy or opaque crystals, lustrous or not, darker or brighter colours etc. ...

[Jordi Fabre]

I like very much the Grossulars (hessonite) from Jeffey Mine, the Andradites (demantoid) from Belqeys Mountain, Iran, and the Spessartines from Tongbei, China.

[Tobi]

Just found a wonderful and quite new portrait about spessartine on Mindat:

https://www.mindat.org/article.php/4119/Spessartine

A lot of "favourite garnets" in this article ;-)

[Tobi]

There's another chapter, this time about grossular:

https://www.mindat.org/article.php/4114/Grossular

Very informative and entertaining!

[19Kath93]

I like green garnet a lot.

[Tobi]

Then you will like these two articles a lot:

https://www.mindat.org/article.php/4117/Uvarovite
https://www.mindat.org/article.php/4216/Tsavorite+-+the+vanadian+type

;-)

They are both from this year and I recommend them to anyone who likes garnets!