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Almandine

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Description
Locality: 
Kamiaba, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.4 × 4 × 1.9 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.70cm
Description

Deep red trapezohedral almandine crystals with good definition of stepped and lustrous faces on a matrix that includes black striated arfvedsonite crystals, with some white quartz. Found at the Kamiaba region, a very remote locality near the border with Zambia. Uncommon locality in collections, that has never been abundant at all.

Collected before 1960, the specimen is from the stock of Robert Verdoodt, who was working in the laboratories of Union Minière du Haut-Katanga and evacuated to Belgium in 1960 after the beginning of the Congo crisis.

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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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