The locality has been worked exclusively for garnet and vesuvianite specimens by mineral collectors and mineral dealers. |
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Another recent find is bright orange spessartine being marketed as hollandite and mandarin garnet. |
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Another garnet, a mixture of pyrope and spessartine, is called malaya garnet in the gem trade. |
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The Herbeira websterites contain diopside, enstatite, and pargasite with olivine, garnet, spinel, magnetite and ilmenite as minor phases. |
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The sample is strongly foliated and consists of garnet, biotite, quartz, plagioclase and cordierite. |
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Attractive gemstone paintings, which use garnet, turquoise, yellow agate and red jasper, from Agra catch the attention of visitors. |
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Out came cut stones, cabochons, obscure gems, common amethyst, odd colors of garnet, sapphire, and jade. |
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However, this assumption is inconsistent with the fairly simultaneous appearance of the second garnet generation and oligoclase. |
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The sample contains the mineral assemblage garnet, staurolite, biotite and rare epidote. |
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Furthermore, the textural evidence implies that the main hydrous minerals in this rock, staurolite and biotite, largely predate garnet growth. |
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They have parallel bright shiny mica wrapping round large grains of pink garnet, brown staurolite, or blue kyanite. |
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Most people cannot tell the difference between a ruby and a garnet, which is worth considerably less carat for carat. |
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The Stephens Creek Shear Zone contains a peak assemblage of garnet-plagioclase-staurolite-biotite, with staurolite overgrowing garnet. |
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During the autumn, the foliage of tricolour sage and ajuga becomes burnished with bronze, plum, and garnet. |
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It is composed of quartz, oligoclase, and microcline, with minor garnet, biotite, muscovite and iron-oxides. |
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The Badger Flats area is also well known for clinozoisite, garnet, hematite, scheelite, vesuvianite, wollastonite, and zoisite. |
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Coexisting MI phases in these rocks include garnet, plagioclase, quartz, tourmaline and fluorite. |
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I've seen earrings, necklaces, and rings with all sorts of gems including amethyst, citrine, blue topaz, and garnet. |
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Biotite is sometimes pseudomorphed by chlorite and epidote, and garnet is absent. |
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Biotite, epidote and clinopyroxene are also occasionally present, whereas garnet is virtually absent. |
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Other areas showed mixtures of fine-grained garnet, diopside, and other Ca-silicate minerals. |
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It grades into a manganese-rich ilmenite that ultimately replaces the spinel phase near the transition to the garnet amphibolite. |
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It is not known what type of garnet this is, but grossular would be a good guess. |
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Five slightly smaller clusters encircle the center, each with a faceted demantoid green garnet at its center. |
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The dragonflies' backs are composed of graduated black opals and the heads are of pink opals with demantoid garnet eyes. |
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Rare earth element distributions in the zircons and garnets strongly suggest that the zircon overgrowths formed in equilibrium with garnet. |
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How exquisite she would look in the rope of garnet beads my mother gave me years ago for a birthday present. |
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He also found particles of gemstones such as corundum, garnet, rutile, and argentite. |
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The Bakfjord Granite contains quartz, K-feldspar, biotite, plagioclase, epidote, allanite, muscovite and occasional garnet. |
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This dry red wine with rich fruit flavours, smoky bouquet and fabulous garnet colour can be tasted at the fair. |
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Particularly in the Saxon pagan period, gold jewellery was often inset with precious or semi-precious stones such as garnet. |
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Subtly impressive was the beautifully banded agate Mughal fly whisk handle, tipped with a garnet on an amber collar and inset with emeralds. |
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Most have some collectible minerals such as beryl, garnet, and schorl, and a few have lithium minerals. |
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One of the pendants is a triangular arrangement of colours, using a baguette cut peridot, amethyst and a garnet set in white gold. |
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In sample 17, development of the S-C fabric was postdated by growth of late garnet and fibrolite. |
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Ye et al. recently reported abundant exsolutions of clinopyroxene, rutile and apatite in garnet of a Yangkou eclogite sample. |
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Instead of panning out gold, several would be prospectors panned out pyrope garnet. |
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Would you like us to inform you when we add more natural melanite garnet jewelry items in 14k white and and 14k yellow gold on this page? |
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The mineral assemblage comprises quartz, K-feldspar, albitic plagioclase, white mica, apatite, tourmaline and garnet. |
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A secretive layer of minted yogurt and a cache of garnet sweet potatoes made the dish even more of a global high-wire act. |
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The garnet and blue clad hoopsters competed in four exhibition contests that season, winning each by a comfortable margin. |
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From her ears now hung two earrings with stylized garnet hearts at the bottom of them. |
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In the southern Siniscola schists, chloritoid and poikilitic garnet porphyroblasts have overgrown the earliest cleavage. |
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This granulite consists of garnet, biotite, muscovite, quartz, plagioclase and cordierite. |
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The intervening host-rock layers are between 2 and 5 cm thick, being composed of biotite, sillimanite, garnet, muscovite, quartz and plagioclase. |
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At Badgley Mischka, beads were everywhere, from pearls to garnet cat's eye crystals to opalescent moonstones. |
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At Azegour, Morocco, uraninite occurs in tactite with molybdenite, chalcopyrite, barite, pyrite, hematite, and garnet. |
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Bohemia is known for its unusual crystal objects and deep red garnet stones. |
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These aggregates are perched on a matrix of fine-grained garnet densely intergrown with other manganese silicates. |
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The skarns also contain hornblende, calcite, pyroxene, tremolite, pyrrhotite, molybdenite, galena, chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite, garnet, and pyrite. |
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Although pearls, of varying colours, are the main material Tuck uses, she also includes quartzes and some precious stones such as garnet and amethyst. |
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He added that he found a third medieval gold ring in September, set with either an amethyst or garnet stone, which is currently in the hands of the British Museum. |
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They contain sulfide minerals as well as metamorphic minerals that include cordierite, gahnite, epidote, garnet, amphiboles, schorl, and many others. |
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In the introduction to the garnet group, the various distinct species such as pyrope, almandite, grossularite, andradite, and spessartite are referred to as varieties. |
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The stretching lineation is commonly defined by biotite and by recrystallized plagioclase in tails surrounding rotated, moderately retrograded, garnet porphyroclasts. |
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Somewhat surprisingly, tiny crystals were found with rhodolite garnet and corundum during alluvial gem mining in streams draining Mason Mountain, Macon County, North Carolina. |
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The only thing that bothered me about the book was in vignette 18, describing Garnet Hill, where garnet crystals in rhyolite can still be collected. |
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This jeweler, though, is the master of recreating good fake jewellery and this season has produced some delightful pieces in rose quartz and garnet. |
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Although biotite is capable of this, other minerals such as muscovite, garnet and cordierite are more efficient and preferentially occur in strongly peraluminous rocks. |
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In previous investigations of the synthesis of the garnet, uvarovite, various temperatures have been given for the synthetic product to be obtained. |
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Rubies were found in Burma and Ceylon, topaz, beryl, garnet, amethyst and pearl in Ceylon and Southern India, and spinels and deep blue sapphires in Afghanistan and Kashmir. |
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The example in Plate VIII is activated by pressing the cabochon garnet surmounting the rock crystal dome, under which a nephrite frog climbs a silver-gilt ladder. |
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These phases predate the main foliation, a well-differentiated crenulation cleavage that wraps around the porphyroblasts of garnet and staurolite. |
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The petrological evolution of the shear zones indicates that either staurolite grew before garnet or, more commonly, garnet growth occurred before staurolite. |
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They recognized kyanite-staurolite assemblages in pelites to the north of the Annagh Gneiss Complex exposures, but only garnet and oligoclase to the south. |
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Quartz, microcline or orthoclase and plagioclase are ubiquitous in the Everest granites, which also contain varying amounts of tourmaline, muscovite, biotite and garnet. |
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The microgranite has a felsitic groundmass containing microphenocrysts of albite and orthoclase along with phenocrysts of corroded quartz and sporadic dihedral garnet. |
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The phyllites show fine-grained foliated textures and the mineral assemblage consists of chlorite, muscovite, albite, chloritoid and garnet along the main foliation. |
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Uvarovite, a sparkling green garnet that often occurs on blocks of chromite, was named in honor of Earl Uvarov, a Russian politician of the nineteenth century. |
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Diamonds sometimes contain minute inclusions of the minerals garnet, olivine, and pyroxene, which indicate formation in two major mantle rock-types, peridotite and eclogite. |
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Some of the characteristic minerals found in kimberlite are olivine, pyrope garnet, enstatite, diopside, ilmenite, phlogopite, perovskite, magnetite, and spinel. |
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The semi-pelites usually consist of biotite, quartz, plagioclase and untwinncd feldspar, and garnet forms abundant porphyroblasts in some varieties. |
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The profiles could result from garnet growth parallel to Fe-Mg isopleths. |
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In the 1980s, geologists in Moscow found several small diamonds and minerals, such as zircon, garnet, and corundum, in the alluvia of the River Karla. |
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Early attempts applying the Sm-Nd isotope system to garnet and clinopyroxene were encouraging and often yielded dates considered as representing near-peak P-T conditions. |
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Superimposed on the spray is a diamond and demantoid garnet butterfly. |
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Lower crustal garnet granulite xenoliths from beneath the Kola-Karelian domain of the Fennoscandian Shield were brought to the surface in Devonian lamprophyre diatremes. |
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These included quartz, garnet and emery which were mixed with water to make a slurry and applied with rotary tools, such as wheels and drills, as well as non-rotary files. |
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The mineralogy of pyrolite is 57 per cent forsteritic olivine, 17 per cent enstatitic pyroxene, 12 per cent diopsidic pyroxene, and 14 per cent pyropic garnet. |
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I'd speculate that the unusual stone is an orange sapphire or a pale orange spessartite garnet. |
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Almandine, spessartine, grossular, uvarovite, andradite and pyrope are six minerals which are regarded as belonging to the garnet family. |
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Among other minerals found in them are biotite, chlorite, tourmaline, epidote, apatite, garnet, hornblende, augite, sphene and pyrites. |
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Spessartite is a rare garnet and has a light orange or bright orange color. |
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Beach placer deposits of India essentially consist of ilmenite, rutile, garnet, zircon, monazite, sillimanite and quartz. |
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Highlights include an ornate gold band with emeralds, and an Ostrogothic garnet ring from the late 5th century. |
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These pyrope garnet compositions fall within the G9 classification and extend the lherzolite trend due to their elevated chromium compositions. |
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Kyanite, garnet, monazite, and amphibole are common minerals, while apatite, anatase, titanite, corundum, pyroxene, and epidote are rare. |
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The rings were golden Claddaghs with a garnet in the center. A Claddagh represented friendship, honor, and love. |
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Kelyphite is a fine grained, fibrous and radially oriented mineral assembly surrounding partially retrogressed garnet. |
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The first of these is pyrope garnet, the name coming from the Greek word for fiery. |
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Pyrope garnet, clinopyroxenes and chromite minerals are among the most typical diamond indicator minerals found in kimberlites. |
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Two samples contain highly anomalous concentrations of pyrope garnet and ilmenite with minor chromite and eclogitic garnet. |
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His mother's good black silk dress, with the garnet pin and garnet earrings, was folded intoan old pillowslip. |
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Generally almandine and grossularite are only used for manufacture of abrasives such as garnet paper. |
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These results show that paragenesis of mineralization of chalcopyrite, pyrite, malachite, azurite, garnet and magnetite occurred. |
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Demantoid garnet is a rare and beautiful bright grass green sub-variety of andradite garnet. |
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Samples collected from the Garnet Hill locality contain idiomorphic garnet porphyroblasts up to two centimeters in diameter that have grown in a fine-grained phyllitic matrix. |
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This phenomenon, known as the anomalous Hall effect, indicated that the graphene was ferromagnetic, the type of magnetism exhibited by iron and yttrium iron garnet. |
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The rocks are dark brown, fine-grained, and contain garnet porphyroblasts. |
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There are number of natural and synthetic materials which could be used in place of garnet for abrasive purposes such as staurolite, diamond and corundum among others. |
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The other main type of red garnet found in jewellery is almandine. |
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In addition, the clay minerals included common mica, occasional garnet group minerals, apatite, and rare titanite, ilmenite, zircon, rutile and iron oxides. |
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Almandine is the most common garnet and comes in a wide range of colors including purple, wine red, purplish red, brown, and deep red among others. |
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Amphibolites and garnet amphibolites present two types of paragenesis. |
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Transparent heavy minerals are commonly dominated by garnet, but considerable amounts of unstable amphiboles and pyroxenes are present in the upper part of the section. |
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How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch. |
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Enrichment of scandium also occurs in aluminum phosphate minerals, beryl, cassiterite, columbite, garnet, muscovite, rare-earth minerals, and wolframite. |
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