| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Colorado > Spessartine Garnet |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 71098 |
| Mineral: | Spessartine Garnet |
| Locality: | Ruby Mountain, Nathrop, Chaffee County, Colorado |
| Description: | Lustrous dark red-black spessartine garnet crystal in a shallow cavity in gray rhyolite with quartz and hematite microcrystals. The spessartine garnet crystal is trapezohedral form with octahedral corner faces. From my personal collection; collected ca. 1996 |
| Overall Size: | 29x24x12 mm |
| Crystals: | micro to 3 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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