Tags: Chemical Substance, Mineral.
Uvarovite is a chromium-bearing garnet group species with the formula: Ca3Cr2(SiO4)3. It was discovered in 1832 by Germain Henri Hess who named it after Count Sergei Semenovitch Uvarov (1765–1855) a Russian statesman and amateur mineral collector.Uvarovite is one of the rarest of the garnet group minerals and is the only consistently green garnet species with an emerald-green color. It occurs as well-formed fine-sized crystals.
