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chromium's secret garden, the only emerald-green garnet, growing crystals too tiny to set in rings
means Uvarovite is a rare bright emerald-green variety of garnet, colored by chromium, prized by collectors but usually forming crystals too small to cut as gems.
from Named in the 1830s after Count Sergei Uvarov, a Russian statesman and president of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, who lent his name to this chromium-rich garnet found in the Ural Mountains. The mineral honors the man, not any feature of the stone — the '-ite' ending is the standard suffix mineralogists attach to rocks and minerals, from the Greek '-ites,' meaning 'belonging to' or 'of the nature of.'
- green source
- chromium gives it that deep emerald glow
- too small
- crystals rarely exceed two millimeters across
- named after
- a Russian count and education minister
- druzy clusters
- sold as sparkling crystal-coated rock slabs
- garnet rarity
- the rarest of all garnet species
uvarovite from finland — bright green chromium garnet crystals found in outokumpu, one of the world's finest deposits
uvarovite from russia — named after count sergei uvarov in 1832, originally discovered in the urals