lets see what you guys would call this stuff.

[wilfndgold]

looks like its red on the inside.............. Anyone?

 

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[gunsil]

Looks like garnet on calcite.

 

[73dguard]

I am somewhat red/green blind. Is there enough red for garnet? it just looks kinda brown to me.

 

[Buckshotnc]

I'd go with garnet, not sure about the host rock. Not all garnet is red.

 

[Lotus Geologist]

I have seen garnets in every color but blue.

L.G.

 

[loco oro]

loks like garnet on a conglomerate matrix.

 

[Eu_citzen]

Ditto to garnets. Blue garnets do exist, by the way, but are very rare colour changers.

 

[MrLee]

Garnets in quartz & feldspar matrix. I win.

 

[punkass761]

Looks like globular garnet.

 

[huntsman53]

I think the correct term is impure (imperfect) Grossular Garnet which is a Calcium-Aluminum mineral species of Garnet but in this case, where the Cacium was partialy replaced by Ferrous Iron and the Aluminum partially replaced by Ferric Iron. Yeah, I had to look some of the information up! However, I have dug many specimens of Grossular Garnet over the years, mainly outside of Burnsville, North Carolina but also in some other areas of North Carolina and a few in Tennessee. I still have some that I have dug and one is a perfect Dodecahedron crystal about the size of a Golf ball but it is butt ugly due to the Iron composition it is partialy made up of.


Frank

 

[G.O.Eye]

Wow, that bad boy looks like red andradite garnet crystals and calcite crystals on matrix, interesting, this is a nice matrix, I'm dead sure those are red andradite garnet crystals, this should kill the mystery.

 

[MrLee]

This is from the same general area that Win found his.
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[MrLee]

This is from the same general area that Win found his.
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