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Almandine

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Description
Locality: 
Garnet Hill, White Pine County, Nevada, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3.5 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.30cm
Description

A sharp, lustrous, very deep red almandine garnet is perched in a quartz-lined vug in vesicular rhyolite.

Per Mindat, the garnet from this locality is almandine and not spessartine, although almost all garnets from this location have been incorrectly labeled spessartine by collectors. Repeated chemical analyses have shown the Fe to Mn ratio is consistently about 2.5 Fe to 1 Mn.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Almandine

Formula: 
Fe2+3Al2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
7.0 - 7.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Alabanda, Aydin Province, Aegean Region, Turkey

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