Grossular Garnet (ex David Burgess Collection)

Item Description

This large miniature / small cabinet specimen is good representation of the Redding Andradite Garnets. This fairly well-known calcium skarn locale has produced some attractive and recognized Andradites dating back several decades. The piece features a sharp, lustrous, well-formed, rich orange-red colored dodecahedral crystal at the center which measures 1.5 cm across, associated with a couple larger (yet incomplete) Andradites and gap-fills of massive grey-white Calcite. The main Garnet crystal is undamaged, and even has a bit of internal translucency in decent lighting. From the worldwide collection of David Burgess (1951-2016). David was a prolific species collector from Newington, Connecticut, and the namesake for the extremely rare cobalt arsenate species Burgessite, which he discovered.