What is "uvarovite"

n. (context mineralogy English) A rare chromium-bearing garnet mineral with a vivid emerald-green colour.

Uvarovite is a chromium-bearing garnet group species with the formula: Ca Cr( Si O). 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.

It is found associated with chromium ores in Spain, Russia, and Quebec in Canada. It also occurs in Finland, Norway, and South Africa.