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Description: Staurolite, Almandine Locality: Pestsovye Keivy, Keivy Mountains, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia (Locality at mindat.org) Size: 11.1 x 9.8 x 3.9 cm. Growing out of a matrix of garnet-mica schist is a most unusual specimen: It features lustrous, brown staurolite crystals, some doubly terminated and up to 6 cm in length. To top it off, there are several purplish-red garnet crystals, up to 2 cm across on the staurolite. This is definitely not a common occurrence and I cannot recall seeing the association, in fact. Ex. Ernie Schlichter Collection.
Title: Staurolite-Almandine-36948
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