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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 76498 |
| 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 an octahedral corner face on one corner. Collected in July 1992 |
| Overall Size: | 20x19x17 mm |
| Crystals: | 4 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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