Uvarovite is a rare member of the garnet group. The discovery of the mineral Uvarovite happened rather by chance when the Swiss-Russian mineralogist and chemist Germain Henri Hess (1802 - 1850) examined a stone from the mineralogical collection in St. Petersburg in 1832. It was labeled with the name Dioptase, ...
Uvarovite is a rare member of the garnet group. The discovery of the mineral Uvarovite happened rather by chance when the Swiss-Russian mineralogist and chemist Germain Henri Hess (1802 - 1850) examined a stone from the mineralogical collection in St. Petersburg in 1832. It was labeled with the name Dioptase, but Hess was suspicious and examined the stone more closely.
The stone labeled "Dioptase of Bissersk" turned out to be a previously unknown, chromium-bearing garnet. In honor of the Russian mineral collector and President of the Imperial Academy of Science Sergei Semyonovich Uvarovite, the newly discovered mineral was named Uvarovite.
A well-known synonym is the name chrome garnet due to the coloring substance.
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