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Garnet Var Almandine

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Garnet Var Almandine

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Description
Locality: 
Ambatondrazaka, Alaotra-Mangoro, Madagascar
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 3 × 2.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.90cm
Description

Very nice almandine garnet on matrix. You can see a dark-red perfectly shaped crystal, with strange shape (it’s like it is streaked, maybe it is a kind o “twinned garnet”) and very sharp.

A very good garnet specimen!

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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