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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 63468 |
| Mineral: | Spessartine-Almandine Garnet |
| Locality: | Leiper's Quarry, Avondale, Delaware County, Pennsylvania |
| Description: | Two lustrous transparent-to-translucent wine-red garnet crystals embedded in the edge of a silvery muscovite mica crystal. The garnets are trapezohedral form with small dodecahedral corner faces. These garnets are spessartine to almandine composition. Ex. Mort Metersky collection. See Spessartite from Avondale, Delaware County, Pennsylvania in American Mineralogist, Volume 15, No. 1 (January), pp.40-41 |
| Overall Size: | 4x2.5x1.5 cm |
| Crystals: | 6-18 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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