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Almandine

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Almandine

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Description
Locality: 
Tveit #3 Feldspar Quarry, Iveland, Agder, Norway
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 6.3 × 2.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.20cm
Description

Several well developped almandine crystals, partly interestingly striated and of very dark redbrown colour are set on quartz with some muscovite. Specimen from this well-known pegmatite quarry in the Iveland area in Southern Norway. Collected in 1994.

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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