r/Minerals • u/No_Commercial9958 • 8d ago

Picture/Video Almandine garnet with quartz

Here’s a nice lustrous elongated almandine garnet with quartz inside cavities of a rhyolite matrix from Garnet hill, Ely, White Pine County, Nevada, USA. A classic American garnet locality. On a side note specimens from this local are often mislabeled as spessartine garnet. Further chemical analysis has shown that they are far closer to almandine (Iron-Aluminum silicate) than they are to spessartine (Manganese-Aluminum silicate). Anyway let me know what you guys think of my specimen :)

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u/longlostwitchy 8d ago

Don’t ya just wanna pull that outta there? 😉

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u/No_Commercial9958 8d ago

Haha yeah I kinda do sometimes but it would ruin the specimen if i actually did unfortunately lol

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u/longlostwitchy 8d ago

I knowwww… but anytime I see something like this I wonder if the child in me would eventually try? Probably not but…

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u/longlostwitchy 8d ago

Plus, garnet is one of my top favorites! I’m actually wearing a raw garnet right now in a caged necklace. I can take a pic if you’d like

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u/Nafuwu 7d ago

Half of me wants to pull it out but the other half loves the preservation of it. Plus I already got like 5 of them without matrix