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Almandine

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Almandine

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Description
Locality: 
Tveit #3 Feldspar Quarry, Iveland, Agder, Norway
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 3.2 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.50cm
Description

Numerous well developped almandine crystals of dark redbrown colour are set on crystals of albite. Specimen from this well-known pegmatite quarry. 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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