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Almandine

Kawai Mine

Kawai, Kasagi village, Ena city, Gifu pref., Japan

This locality is closed to collecting.

Almandine

Field of view: 10 mm. Almandine associated with annite. The trapezohendral red grains are almandine. The platy black crystals in the interstices of almandine are annite.

Recovered from skarn formed by contact metamorphism of S-type (ilmenite-series) granite of a caldera complex with a moderate-temperature hydrothermal deposit associated with the same caldera complex.

Almandine from this location was described in 1947 as garnet and in 1961as almandine.

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