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Actions	almandine, or garnet Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberP12040 Titlealmandine, or garnet DescriptionSingle dark purple-red almandine crystal, from Adelaide, Australia. Almandine is a species of mineral belonging to the garnet group. The name is a corruption of alabandicus, which is the name applied by Pliny the Elder to a stone found or worked at Alabanda, a town in Caria in Asia Minor. Almandine is an iron alumina garnet, of deep red color, inclining to purple. It is frequently cut with a convex face, or 'en cabochon,' and is then known as carbuncle. Large deposits of fine almandine-garnets were found in the Northern Territory of Australia, and were at first taken for rubies and thus they were known in trade for some time afterwards as Australian rubies. Object namealmandine Object categoryMineral Dimensions length: 2.5 cm width: 2.3 cm height: 2.2 cm

Object numberP12040

Titlealmandine, or garnet

DescriptionSingle dark purple-red almandine crystal, from Adelaide, Australia. Almandine is a species of mineral belonging to the garnet group. The name is a corruption of alabandicus, which is the name applied by Pliny the Elder to a stone found or worked at Alabanda, a town in Caria in Asia Minor. Almandine is an iron alumina garnet, of deep red color, inclining to purple. It is frequently cut with a convex face, or 'en cabochon,' and is then known as carbuncle. Large deposits of fine almandine-garnets were found in the Northern Territory of Australia, and were at first taken for rubies and thus they were known in trade for some time afterwards as Australian rubies.

Object namealmandine

Object categoryMineral

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