AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Connecticut > Almandine Garnet |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 52870 |
Mineral: | Almandine Garnet |
Locality: | Green's Farm, 750 m. ESE of Roxbury Falls, Roxbury, New Haven County, Connecticut |
Description: | Two interconnected red-brown dodecahedral almandine garnet with remnants of gray schist on the bottom where it was attached. The almandine crystals were extracted from solid rock, not from a cavity, resulting in a few incomplete crystal faces. Locality closed to collecting in 2012. Collected ca. 1992 |
Overall Size: | 28x19x17 mm |
Crystals: | 16-20 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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