XVI. On so-called Green Garnets, from the Urals

Extract

Some extremely beautiful but rather soft gems of various green hues have been extensively sold during the last year or two. They are found in the gold washings of the river Bobrowska, near Poldnewaja, district of Syssersk, in the Urals, and occur in the form of nodular masses, varying in size from a pea to a chestnut. These closely resemble the jelletite from Monte Rosa. All the specimens which I have examined present a roughly radiate structure, are irregularly fissured and veined, and are coated with a talcose mineral, glistening and nearly white. The exposed uninjured surfaces of the nodules are minutely and unevenly striated. The mineral shows no cleavages, but the broken surfaces have a resinous or semi-adamantine lustre, and show a small conchoidal fracture.