A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Almandine from Gore Mountain, New York, USA |
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| Description | This specimen is a piece of almandine fractured from a large boulder at the world famous Gore Mountain Mine (Barton Mines Corporation), Adirondack Mountains, USA. Almandine is iron-aluminum garnet, having ideal composition Fe3Al2Si3O12. It may contain magnesium, manganese or calcium as significant impurities. This sample is about 20 cm in longest dimension. |
| Location | USA ▹ New York ▹ Warren. Near Johnsburg. Garnet mine. |
| Photographer | Nessa Eull. 2001-04-09. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #3141. |
| Key words | almandine, Gore Mountain |
| Tech details | 505 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 306 |
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