Almandine
at-auction$ 280
- Locality
- Sedalia Mine, Chaffee Co., Colorado, USA
- Minerals
- Almandine
- Dimensions
- 6 x 5.5 x 5 cm
- Size class
- Small Cabinet
- SID
- AU774
A large, well formed mostly complete single Almandine crystal from Colorado slightly covered by chlorite schist. From MINDAT: 'A Cu-Pb-Zn-Au-Ag occurrence/mine located 4 miles north of Salida, discovered in the early 1880s and worked intermittently until 1923. The Sedalia was the largest copper mine in Colorado, producing also zinc and a bit of gold and silver. The Sedalia Mine is well known among mineral collectors as a source for good specimens, particularly the large, euhedral almandine garnets weighing up to fifteen pounds'. This specimen was collected by John Sulzbach in 1953.