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Garnet group

Year of discovery: 1885 (Japan)

Locality list: 1,412 localities of garnet

• [A₃][B₂][Si⁴⁺₃][O₁₂]

• Class: Garnet supergroup < Nesosilicate subclass < Silicate class
• Class: Nesosilicate
• System: Cubic

• Pyralspite subgroup
• Almandine
• Calderite
• Knorringite
• Majorite
• Pyrope
• Spessartine

• Ugrandite subgroup
• Andradite
• Goldmanite
• Grossular
• Uvarovite
• Momoiite

• Others
• Eringaite
• Menzerite-(Y)
• Morimotoite