Tags: Chemical Substance, Mineral.
Tsavorite or tsavolite is a variety of the garnet group species grossular a calcium-aluminium garnet with the formula Ca3Al2Si3O12. Trace amounts of vanadium or chromium provide the green color. In 1967 British gem prospector and geologist Dr. Campbell R. Bridges discovered a deposit of green grossular in the mountains of north-east Tanzania in a place called Lemshuko 15 km away from Komolo the first village. The specimens he found were of very intense color and of high transparency.
