Possibly Painite or just garnet?

Steve1236

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Found a neat piece of quartz out hiking near my house, I was thinking it was a garnets in quartz specimen but after looking more closely it resembles painite, what do you all think? 20200405_065833.jpg20200405_070428.jpg20200405_081329.jpg20200405_081302.jpg20200405_081118.jpg
 

Unless your hike took you Myanmar..... I would say you have garnet or possibly something else. Did you do a hardness test?
Cool find though.
 

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No, hike was close to home, its probably a garnet but it sure does resemble a painite crystal, hardness was 7 1/2 to 8.....solved, streak was colorless so it's a garnet.
 

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