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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 70991 |
| Mineral: | Spessartine Garnet |
| Locality: | Ruby Mountain, Nathrop, Chaffee County, Colorado |
| Description: | Lustrous dark red-black spessartine garnet crystal in a small cavity in gray rhyolite. The spessartine crystal is trapezohedral form and is surrounded by many small transparent colorless crystals of an unidentified mineral, probably quartz. From my personal collection; collected ca. 1996 |
| Overall Size: | 27x24x11 mm |
| Crystals: | 3 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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