Garnet Group

 

  
The Garnets are a complex family of minerals all with similar crystalline structures but varying greatly in chemical composition and properties.  All Garnets fall into six basic varieties: Almandine, Andradite, Grossular, Pyrope, Spessartite and Uvarovite or a combination of two or more. The name Garnet comes from the Latin word grantum, for Pomegranite and its similarity to the red seeds of this fruit.