Malaya garnet
Variety (Mg,Mn,Fe)3Al2(SiO4)3
Also called Malaia garnet
About it
Orange to pinkish garnet that mixes pyrope and spessartine, first found in the Umba Valley of Tanzania. Its name is Swahili for "outcast", since dealers at first could not place it.
- Type
- Variety
- Group
- Pyrope variety (garnet)
- Formula
- (Mg,Mn,Fe)3Al2(SiO4)3
- Hardness (Mohs)
- 7–7.5
- Specific gravity
- 3.75–4
- Streak
- white
- Lustre
- vitreous (glassy)
- Crystal system
- Isometric (cubic)
- Colours
- orange, pinkish orange, reddish orange
- Transparency
- transparent
- Cleavage and fracture
- none; conchoidal to uneven fracture
Typical values: real specimens vary. For more, see mindat.org.