| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Massachusetts > Spessartine Garnet |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 80105 |
| Mineral: | Spessartine Garnet |
| Locality: | Betts Manganese Mine, Plainfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts |
| Description: | Lustrous transparent brown garnet crystals on one face of greenish quartz. Often misidentified as almandine garnet (iron-rich), the are obviously spessartine garnet (manganese-rich) because of the manganese-rich environment: it is a manganese mine. |
| Overall Size: | 24x17x15 mm |
| Crystals: | 1.0-1.8 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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