AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from New York > Almandine Garnet |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 336 |
Mineral: | Almandine Garnet |
Locality: | 26th Street at Sixth Avenue Subway Excavation, Manhattan Island, New York City, New York County, New York |
Description: | Large well-exposed transparent-to-translucent red almandine garnet crystals in fine-grained biotite gneiss. The almandine crystals are complex form, the combination of dodecahedral and trapezohedral forms. Ex. Ken Hogan collection. Collected ca 1935 |
Overall Size: | 9x5.5x3 cm |
Crystals: | 3-25 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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