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Almandine

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Almandine

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Description
Locality: 
Paranesti, Drama, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 2 × 1.7 cm
Description

Complete all around trapezohedral almandine crystal of nice glassy luster and plesant brown color.It is set on small albite matrix with minor muscovite.A fine example of pegmatite garnet from Greece and very good for the locality where most garnets are found weathered and broken.

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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