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Spessartine Garnet with Topaz from Ruby Mountain, Nathrop, Chaffee County, Colorado

 
Spessartine Garnet with Topaz from Ruby Mountain, Nathrop, Chaffee County, Colorado

Spessartine Garnet with Topaz from Ruby Mountain, Nathrop, Chaffee County, Colorado

Spessartine Garnet with Topaz from Ruby Mountain, Nathrop, Chaffee County, Colorado

Spessartine Garnet with Topaz from Ruby Mountain, Nathrop, Chaffee County, Colorado

Spessartine Garnet with Topaz from Ruby Mountain, Nathrop, Chaffee County, Colorado

Spessartine Garnet with Topaz from Ruby Mountain, Nathrop, Chaffee County, Colorado

DESCRIPTION:No. 78216
Mineral:Spessartine Garnet with Topaz
Locality:Ruby Mountain, Nathrop, Chaffee County, Colorado
Description:Several lustrous dark red-black trapezohedral spessartine garnet crystals to 2.8 mm on gray rhyolite with quartz microcrystals, plus a 7 mm pale sherry-colored prismatic topaz crystal in a shallow cavity on the rear. Collected in July 1992
Overall Size:4x3x2 cm
Crystals:1.5-7.0 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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