AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Connecticut > Almandine Garnet with Staurolite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 12568 |
Mineral: | Almandine Garnet with Staurolite |
Locality: | Green's Farm, 750 m. ESE of Roxbury Falls, Roxbury, New Haven County, Connecticut |
Description: | Many brown crystals of almandine garnet up to 15 mm in silvery schist matrix with small staurolite crystals up to 10 mm. The schist matrix was sand blasted to expose the garnets. Locality closed to collecting in 2012. Collected ca. 1992 |
Overall Size: | 6x3x3 cm |
Crystals: | 2-15 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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