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A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Garnet (almandine) from Gore Mtn., New York |
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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 3 cm in longest dimension. |
| Photographer | Shannon Heinle. 2001-04-19. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #3144. |
| Key words | garnet, almandine, Gore Mountain, New York |
| Tech details | 362 KB. Hand specimen. |
| GeoDIL number | 356 |
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