Grosslar Garnet (rare GEM QUALITY colorless crystal)

Item Description

Jeffrey Mine Garnets are among the world's finest for Grossular, hands down. While the great classic examples show a rich cinnamon-orange color, there are other fine Grossulars from Jeffrey in rare sporadic pockets that may have greenish or pink, or even no color. The colorless Grossulars are particularly rare, and the best find I know of came out in the mid 1990s. This specimen is a noteworthy, GEM QUALITY, very sharp, lustrous, complex, colorless-vanilla crystal free of matrix. If you look closely, you can see the dozens of small modifying faces, but they are somewhat difficult to discern as the crystal is just like glass, and you can see straight through it. Overall this is a significant thumbnail, if a little unusual, for this amazing (now closed) mine and the species.