Mineral: Almandine
Locality: Barton Garnet Mines, North River, Warren County, New York, USA
Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.0 x 3.8 cm

Description: Pods of reddish brown almandine frozen in a coarse-grained greenish black hornblende (pargasite) matrix. The Barton Mine began operations in 1878 mining garnet for abrasives.

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