Kenya | Tsavo National Park, Tsavorite

Kenya's Tsavo National Park is located in the south-eastern part of the country, along the Galana, Tsavo, and Voi River, on the Yatta Plateau. Tsavo's semi-arid bush-country is the primary source for the green grossularite variety of garnet known as Tsavorite.

Tsavorite is recent mineral find, discovered by British geologist Campbell Bridges, in 1967. Tsavorite has an intense emerald-green, grass-green, or bluish-green hue created by trace amounts of chromium (Cr) and vanadium (V). In Kenya, tsavorite is mined at the Scorpion Mine in the Mwatate area of the Taita Hills (Taita Taveta District), 20 km west of Voi.

The Tsavo National Park has one of the world's largest game sanctuaries, covering 21,000 Square Kilometers. The Mzima Springs, are fed by filtered underground streams originating from the Chyulu Hills lava massif, nearly 50 km away. Tsavo is approximately 320 km south-east of Nairobi, on the Mombasa and Nairobi highway.