The most garnet

1. Garnet origin almost all over the world, Germany is the country with the largest garnet produced.

Two. The biggest piece of the history of the original stone weighed 20 tons of garnet, carrying, with 100 horses. Piece produced in the Ural Mountains "rose garnet" was carved into the grandson of Catherine II, Nicholas I's coffin.

3. U.S. National Museum of Natural History in the collection of the best in the world a brown yellow transparent garnet (iron calcium aluminum garnet), is an elaborate carved head of Christ, heavy 61.5 kt, priceless.