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Schorl Tourmaline with Almandine Garnet from ledge above the Harvard Quarry, Noyes Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

 
Schorl Tourmaline with Almandine Garnet from ledge above the Harvard Quarry, Noyes Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

Schorl Tourmaline with Almandine Garnet from ledge above the Harvard Quarry, Noyes Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

Schorl Tourmaline with Almandine Garnet from ledge above the Harvard Quarry, Noyes Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

Schorl Tourmaline with Almandine Garnet from ledge above the Harvard Quarry, Noyes Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine

DESCRIPTION:No. 81449
Mineral:Schorl Tourmaline with Almandine Garnet
Locality:ledge above the Harvard Quarry, Noyes Mountain, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine
Description:Many lustrous doubly-terminated black schorl tourmaline crystals to 18 mm with red-brown almandine garnet crystals to 5 mm in brownish quartz-muscovite matrix. I collected this specimen on the western ledge above the lowest pit. Ex. S. Kelland collection; acquired in 2009; collected in 1989 by J. Betts; ex. Betts #46548
Overall Size:12x7.5x4 cm
Crystals:4-18 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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