Parco Naturale Regionale del Beigua

Garnets are generally unearthed in the numerous lenticular rodingites scattered everywhere around this area. The samples are very varied in size and their crystal habit is typically rhombododecahedral, but compound forms presenting countless facets are also common. The colour ranges from brown and cinnamon tones to dark red, as the composition varies in content of grossularite, andradite, and almandine. Along the crevices in the serpentinite, small crystals can be observed; they are dark brown in colour and very shiny, and therefore visible even from quite afar.