Almandine

Makabe village, Sakuragawa city, Ibaraki pref., Japan

This locality is closed to collecting.

Field of view: 20 mm. Almandine associated with muscovite. The trapezohedral red crystal is almandine. The surrounding platy white crystals are muscovite. The tiny transparent part with a vitreous luster at the right of almandine is quartz.

Recovered from a beryl-columbite subtype rare-element pegmatite in S-type (Ilumenite-series) granite. Formed in the middle Paleocene (60 Ma).

Garnet from this location was described in 1885.

Other localities

List of Japanese almandine localities

Yamano-o (Pegmatite, Trapezohedral)
Yukiiri (Pegmatite, Trapezohedral)
Komaki Mine (Pneumatolytic, Dodecahedral)
Kita-Yoshimi (AM facies)
Omi river (EA facies, Dodecahedral)
Taguchi Mine (AM facies, Trapezohedral)
Kawai Mine (Skarn, Trapezohedral)