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Almandine On Schist

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Almandine On Schist

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Description
Locality: 
Lubrin, Almería, Andalusia, Spain
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.4 × 5.3 × 3.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.70cm
Weight: 
82.00gr
Description

On the road from Lubrín to El Chive, Almería, Spain, there are some garnets of the almandine variety, resinous, brown, isometric crystalline system with a dodecahedral or trapezohedral morphology in shale matrix with mica, a metamorphic rock composed of mica, quartz and other minerals in small quantities characteristic of this place, such as the sample we show, a series of well-formed crystals of Almandine garnets in the matrix mentioned above, an original piece of this place.

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

Schist

Variety Of: 

Metamorphic Rock

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Spain
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12
Worldwide
16

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