Garnet in Arfvedsonite Sphere

The word ‘garnet’ comes from the Latin word granatus, which means ‘seed-like,’ a reference to the common appearance of garnets as discrete small red rounded crystals that look like pomegranate seeds embedded in rock.

Arfvedsonite is a rare mineral which forms in plutonic rock. This is an igneous rock which slowly crystallises and solidifies underground from liquid magma.